“What?!”
Velicia was stunned. How did that happen?!
Gwendolyn nodded solemnly. “Yes. She died the same day the four of you left Myst, after the antidote was completed. Do you remember when her hand brushed yours and she saw the vision of the war?”
Velicia remembered that day clearly. She had dismissed it, thinking she’d imagined the Queen’s sudden reaction was because their hands touched.
“She collapsed not long after you left,” Gwendolyn continued softly. “I did everything I could to save her… but whatever she saw was too much. I believe the vision itself killed her. She saw something she shouldn’t have.”
Velicia’s heart thudded against her ribcage. “You mean... she died because of something she saw… in me?”
Gwendolyn stepped closer and gently took her hands. “I used necromancy to
