Strategy by Layla Heart

Author:Layla Heart [Heart, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 5 Times Chaos

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As expected, finding a substance which gets the right chemical reaction with the venom is... hard. There’s a reason it’s such a potent venom which has been used to horrific successes, and that was before whatever my dad’s scientists did to it to make it work even faster. My stab wound is slow to heal, but between Phoenix healing it with her magic and applying bandages with soothing mixtures to it, I manage to stay on top of the pain and it appears to help. But, for me, it really drives home how desperate we are to find something to stop the soldiers from using the stuff.

I mix some powders into the goop we created earlier. The goop has the ingredients of the venom that are most likely to react to other substances, and the powders are our latest combination of things that we hope will harden it out. The mixture fizzes and heats up for a couple of seconds, it does some impressive bubbling action, but as I poke the brown puddle that’s left behind after the bubbles have disappeared, it’s just as liquid as it was before. I sigh, another failure.

“You need to let it rest for a while.” Kit is sitting not too far away, working on his own tests with the fake venom. “I just had one that got sticky after about two minutes. But then it just stayed sticky, like one of those kid’s toys, and didn’t do much else...” He taps at one of the glass dishes sitting in front of him. “And the smell is really bad on that one too.”

“Scent doesn’t matter.” I sigh, pushing the dish away. “It’s not like we’re trying to get them to smell nice. The stench may make them more likely to not attack us, if it’s too bad. I don’t know, it may be an advantage.” I try to smile, but I’m just too tired. “How is your other plan going?”

He looks my way, smiling a little. “I got most of the shadow-walking down, but it’s slow going when you’re so tired at the end of the day. I’m confident that I can do it fluently when the time comes.”

“Can you do it times a hundred?” I don’t want to spoil his positive mood, but we’re going up against thousands of trained soldiers, not just a small group of random people. These are magic-users who have been through years of harsh education, and potentially even some witches.

He shrugs. “I’m working on that part of the plan.” He glances at the door, which is closed as we don’t want to get the stench of these experiments to waft all through the house. “I was thinking... Maybe I could get some people from back home involved...”

“What?” I stare at him. “How were you thinking of doing that without tipping anyone off? Without tipping your mum or any of her court off?”

“That’s the part I’m still stuck on.” He looks down at his notes, writing a few things down, and then putting the pen away, his hands flat on the table.

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