Chapter 12
The next couple days were spent in a haze of confectionary bliss. Other than a quick run each morning and evening through the streets of Elysielle on my way to and from the Honey Garden, I passed all my hours tasting exotic and wildly different honeys and fermentable nectars. We secured sealed pots of the most promising ones, filling several trunks to be taken back to Valhalla for our work on an antidote to the Shade’s anti-serum. Under the brilliant red sun, we laid out sparkling bowls of hand-carved quartz filled with water, floating a single blossom upon the surface of each one, creating flower essences that would later be blended with the honeys.
I didn’t know if any of it would help. But the work itself was healing. I was able to use my heightened earth powers to speak wi
