Chapter sixteen
Dunmoon + Zephur + SequentEira watches as Hana rolls the stones again. Dunmoon shows, black and ugly, followed by Zephur. She asks, What does that mean?
Hana rolls the third stone. Sequent.
It means that our friends will be unhappy with each other for awhile, but mutual need will eventually forge a partnership of sorts. It is good. Dunmoon is good — for the hunted.
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“Gods on fire, my aching head! Where am I?” Arkady groaned and sat up, clutching at his temples. A second later he doubled over and vomited, and the putrid liquid ran in rivulets into the fire, which hissed and spat.
Katkin helped him sit up again and said brusquely, “Drink this — it will help with the pain.” She handed him some tincture of opium poppy and willow bark mixed with hot sweetened water.
