theron
AND THE HEALER’S LIE
Leave it to Magda to refuse to let a fellow die in peace.
Theron wasn’t going to survive this one; he could feel it deep inside. Something wasn’t right in there. Things were broken that she couldn’t heal, and he really would’ve rather died out here in the open air, where he could smell the lavender and lilacs and feel the breeze on his face.
He would’ve liked it to go quickly too, not as long and painfully drawn out as she was going to make it when she tried to mend him back together.
But Theron loved Magda. She’d been kind to him when no one else—er…make that, mostly no one else—in the village ever had been. He could give her this one delusion and let her think she actually had a chance of saving him.
The moment she pulled him to his feet, however, pain c
