Chapter 0347

But first, I had to make her safe.

That evening, I joined Veronica, Nicholas, and Julian in Julian’s private rooms, where we continued to talk about how to trap Jane.

“I’ve been thinking,” Veronica said. “It is possible, if you want, to fight fire with fire,”

“I like fire,” Julian sald.

I ignored him. “What do you mean, Veronica?”

“We could curse her, as she cursed Elva,” she said.

I blinked, startled. “You know how to do that?”

“I’ve never done it before, but I was trained,” Veronica said. There was no infliction in her voice, but she did lower her gaze as she spoke, looking down at the floor. “I’m confident I could curse her well enough for our purposes.”

Julian looked at me. Beside me, Nicholas crossed his arms. I leaned into him a little,

anyway,” Julian said, “She started it. Why shouldn’t we use her tactics against her? She lost her

words held truth, but something held me back yet. Jane was more monster than person now, but… did that

She stood very still, but

against doing what is necessary. In fact, I might enjoy using their training

extent. But… to cast her curse against Elva, Jane had to sacrifice something dear to her. Would whatever Veronica sacrificed be worth it to curse

sacrificing something too: our

can’t do it,” I said.

Julian asked.

was leaving the choice to me. Maybe he’d go along with whatever I wanted. I felt his silent support in his

said. “And we will

if it helps Elva –” Julian

it help Elva? How would she feel, when she grows up and learns the

Julian

know if I believed that, but regardless it was a gamble I

last. “But we

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