It’s #bookqw and our heroine has a ‘secret’ experiment.
More from Chapter 19:
She blew out a breath of disappointment. “This doesn’t tell me anything about how I did it.” They were looking at her oddly, so she admitted, “I’ve never done this before.”
“Never?” they asked in unison.
She didn’t blame them, but she had no assurance the Yates’ cat wasn’t just feeling frisky, and mentioning it could be insulting to an animacambire. “It was an accident. I don’t know what would happen if I drew someone with an injury. Or drew the figure wrong. I won’t do either,” she added quickly.
Daeryn pulled on his shirt and lay back again, his gaze on Rivley.
He said they shared everything. That feeling of being an Outsider to their Basin ways fell over her. She should have gone to Mary Clare for advice on how to approach these fellows.
After a moment, Rivley said, “How Knacks work is a mystery. People just do them.”
“Everyone at Wellspring will move on from their surprise in a day,” Daeryn added.
“Wait a second.” Annmar rose to her feet. “You agreed to keep the healing quiet.”
Daeryn frowned. “But if I’m running around hunting, the others are bound to have questions. I’ll need to tell them something.”
She shook her head. “I’m already an oddity here. I don’t want anyone to know what I’m attempting until I have figured out how to do it properly.”
“But before you hadn’t offered to—you are offering to heal my foot, right?”
Drawing food wouldn’t uncover anything about the healing Knack. She had to try this. “I’m told using my Knack again and again will make it stronger. Experimenting, like inventors do, to get the right method. You said you’d choose a painless healing, so I thought you might consider letting me try to heal your foot. I’d like to help, however if I do this, it must be kept a secret until I am sure I know what I’m doing.”
Daeryn threw another of those speaking glances to Rivley. The leaner fellow shrugged. Daeryn scratched at a patch of smooth brown skin near his temple, a spot scored by cuts only this morning. Finally he gave a nod. “Then we won’t reveal it. The healing is your secret until you say so.”
“Thank you.” She took her seat again. “Repeating the experiment is the only way I can think of to learn more about my Knack before I return to Derby.”
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