Just then, my communicator rang.
It was the healer.
I answered. “Hello?”
“Luna Demi, it’s me, Healer Leo,” came Healer Leo’s voice from the other end. “Your grandmother’s condition has worsened again. Her wolf spirit is growing weaker, and we need to use even higher-grade healing herbs now. But those herbs...”
“How much?” I asked immediately.
“About... one million gold coins.”
My heart dropped straight into an ice pit.
One million?
I only had the two hundred thousand Austinn had given me.
I was still eight hundred thousand short.
“I understand, Healer Leo. Use the best medicine you have for my grandmother first. I’ll figure out the money.”
After hanging up, I sat on the bed, my expression grim.
Eight hundred thousand gold coins.
What was I supposed to do?
Austinn looked at me
