The next morning, I padded downstairs to grab some breakfast and to finish packaging the last of the potions. I wanted to find a couple places around the forest and around Durnbone today to hide them, in case something went terribly wrong within the next couple of weeks.
“Morning,” Gaian said, cracking eggs over a pan on the stove. “Sleep well?”
I glanced around the kitchen at Thayer, who looked pissed like usual, and Darius, who gave me a small smile. Calder wasn’t here this morning, which surprised me. Usually, he liked f*****g with me from the moment I woke up to the moment I fell asleep.
“Okay,” I said, wanting to keep the conversation short.
If I gave him a real answer, it’d be that I’d barely slept all last night. Pains kept shooting through my entire body, as if someone were sta
