Chapter 33
She grinned. Thunder couldn’t help but giggle. She had found the way to cut the bloodstone. She used the compound the Teacher had taught her to make to soften the stone.
She had spent days in the woods, high up in the mountains, searching for the rare flower pieces in the ingredient list. Then she processed the flowers carefully. It had taken her a long time to make the compound, only because she didn’t have the tools the Keymaster did.
She had a theory. The ice had been created from the Scorpion king’s blood. It was not an ordinary stone. He would need to soften the stone first using the blood of an innocent. The Keymaster didn’t take her suggestion seriously, and he didn’t like her theory, either. So it wouldn’t surprise her if he was never able to finish the key.
The Keym
