Chapter XVI • Maia

“Let us go.”

“Huh?” I ask, confused. I’m in the middle of cleaning my daggers with a spare cloth when Severin comes out of the pit house donning his hood. “To where?”

“To the second village I stole from,” he replies, throwing me my shoulder cape. “Come on, now. No time to dawdle.”

That is rather odd, but I shall go with it.

As I return the daggers to their rightful place, I wear the belt around my waist and follow the cabbage-headed man into the forest.

It has been two days since my accidental poisoning. If not for the elixir he claims he “made with ease and not at all panicked whilst making it”, I would have succumbed to the poison’s effects, and lost my life. What was strange about the entire occurrence was he expected me to feel pain, since he mentioned that the poison should have attacked my heart… But I felt completely fine afterwards, not even weak! He also babbled about seeing a demon in his sleep, but I believed he must have had a nightmare, in fear that he could have end