The Battle for Astodia by Maryam Durrani

Author:Maryam Durrani [Durrani, Maryam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1511859113
Published: 2018-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Lorelle was nowhere to be found.

I thought about the king’s orders to kill all the threats. Even though Lorelle was the child of a leader, I wondered if his orders included her.

Killing her would be better than letting her suffer through the torture if I brought her back as a hostage.

After I’d worked with Esmeralda a little and she asked me questions about the book I partially read, I knew where the poisons were located.

“Esmeralda, why are you showing me where the poisons are?”

“I’m showing you where everything is,” she said without turning to me.

“But I have no use for poisons. Aren’t we supposed to be healing?” She locked the poisons in the cupboard and slipped the key in her pocket.

“Yes.”

“You can only kill with poisons,” I pressed, following her around the room.

“And so, I’ll teach you the names and which ones are used for what and their symptoms,” she replied, not understanding what I was trying to get it.

I nodded, letting my shoulders slump in defeat.

“But if you’re so keen on learning them,” she said, finally facing me, “I’ll teach you the poisons names and symptoms right now.”

“Alright.” That’s not at all what I had in mind. I already knew most of the poisons in the world. It was a part of my training, and by the time we were done with just one shelf I was bored to death. Shelf after shelf and I pretended I’d never heard of any of them before. One of them made a person hallucinate before driving him to kill himself. Another caused a person pain and hell for twenty-four hours and later death, and of course, the main one; instant death as it traveled through their veins and right to their heart.

After we were done, I said, “Esmeralda, I’ll never be able to remember all these.” That was a lie.

“I figured,” she sighed. “You know what? Take this key; I always have a spare. Lance has the other one.” She tossed it in my hand. “Just come back and check them from time to time. And beware; I always know when something is missing,” she warned. I nodded and left, pushing the keys into my pocket, feeling triumphant. My heart was beating rapidly with excitement.

I was so close.

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