Book 3: Chapter 24

Nina

Juniper departs from the cottage and strolls for an hour through the forest, eventually arriving in a valley with another settlement. I covertly follow behind her. She knocks on the door of a wood lodge.

“Juniper,” A respectable gentleman greets her and welcomes her inside the house. Another resident of the house is hacking and gasping for oxygen.

“I was terrified I wouldn’t receive the potion on time. Florence is on the verge of death,” He claims.

I pop my head up and observe Juniper and the gentlemen enter a room with an elderly lady in bed via a window once more. She is quite pale, coughing, and gasping for breath. Juniper arranges the basket on the bed and takes a healing potion. She extracts the cork from the bottle and proceeds to elevate the lady’s head.

“Drink, Florence. It will cure you of your illness,” Juniper asserts.

Florence initially struggles but eventually consumes the potion. Within minutes, her cheeks have taken on c