This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

Author:Kenneth Oppel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2011-08-23T05:00:00+00:00

Before I went to my bedchamber for the night, I visited Konrad’s room and found him still awake, reading by candlelight.

“Do you remember us giving it to you?” I asked, sitting beside his bed.

“I remember waking and seeing you all before me, but I thought it a dream—and such a pleasant one. I felt rejuvenated somehow.”

“Do you feel it in you, working?” I asked.

He gave a laugh. “Am I your patient now, Victor?”

“Not patient. Creation!” I said with a grin. “Come now, you must feel something! You have the Elixir of Life in you!” I imagined a great bubbling, a magical fermenting that released healing bodies throughout his blood to battle anything vile they encountered.

“If you must know, I feel as weak as a kitten—but remarkably … transformed.”

“That will be the elixir working hard, destroying the disease! It is bound to be tiring. But now you will not ever get ill again, you lucky dog.”

“Let me see your hand properly,” he said.

I placed it on my knee.

His gaze settled on it. When he looked up, his eyes were wet. “Does it hurt still?”

I shook my head. “It sometimes hurts where my fingers used to be. A kind of phantom pain.”

He placed his perfect hand on mine. “Thank you, Victor.”

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