Chapter 34

Avery

The afternoon sun slanted through the herb garden's glass panels as I knelt beside a patch of moonwort, carefully trimming the silver-edged leaves. Around me, other students worked in quiet concentration, the air thick with the mingled scents of dozens of medicinal plants. Normally I found this work soothing, but today my mind kept drifting back to lunch in Ryker's office, to the way he'd lo