Chapter 22
The three of us spent the better part of a week mostly sleeping. Partly this was because we were exhausted. We had never done that much magical work before. And partly this was because we just could. With the time portal shrunken down to almost nothing, there was no reason to do more than verify the few wards we had cast over it were still there and check Brianna's detecting equipment for any other sign of change. Our morning ritual was no longer necessary.
But mostly it was because, in that moment, the work we needed to do had to be done sleeping.
Brianna had crafted a special bedtime tea, which we all drank early in the evening. It was nasty, like drinking the runoff from a flooded graveyard, muddy and putrid. It took a lot of honey to get it down. A lot of honey.
It was m
