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ly uprooted the rare White Wolf herbs, securing th

the stone laboratory, watc

ior reported, holding up two heavy silver-reinforced

r Calming Incense-the only medicine capable of soothing th

grandmother would succumb t

ashed through the mud

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aleb, then turned to me,

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seeds, I tended the soil, and I spent sleepless nights distill

th tears, falling to he

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ic performance witho

n the snow in my past life,

ed smoothly. "If Grandmother needs medicine, simp

went bo

ow the base ingredients, let alone the c

ing her forehead to the ground. "I'll

es are worthl

a glass vial filled with luminous purpl

al like a starving dog,

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to the dirt, releasing a burst of ri

er hands and knees, frantically clawing at the muddy

er ear: "This is only the beginning, Arle

t me, her eyes

o," I to

iting motorcade, leaving

ugh the tinted window and saw Guthrie and Keanu sta

handed me a clean wet

ck of soil from my finger. "Report every

stood,

River Pack's penthouse, the sun w

packed the rarest specimen-the Frost-Blue Lily, the essen

ble mortar, beginning the distillatio

was time to