Chapter 0457

After receiving Bridget’s warning, I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t risk running into Nicholas, which meant avoiding the places we usually went together. Instead, I ended up in the library with Veronica.

Veronica didn’t seem surprised to see me when I joined her. She didn’t even really greet me.

As I sat down across from her at the table, the books piled high around her, she lifted her head, looked at me, and said, “I’ve made progress with teleportation.”

“You have?”

“I understand enough that I have been making attempts at it.”

She’d been researching so hard for so long, I was beginning to wonder if the secret to Hawk’s teleportation would never be uncovered. Yet here Veronica was, telling me that she had been trying it? I was stunned.

On top of the books stacked beside Veronica sat an apple. She reached for it now and then placed it on the desktop in front of her.

“Hold open your hands,” she said.

and kept them palms

around the apple. She was concentrating hard. A line appeared between her

from Veronica’s

blink, it had

only a few inches. A foot or two, at most. Yet to see it even happen at all was a difficult thing to wrap my mind around. Objects didn’t move like this. Yet this one did.

hand for the apple. When I gave it to her, she

a better look. It seemed like a perfectly normal

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expecting something different?”

attempts… scrambled things,”

she meant by that, but I had enough of an understanding to know she shouldn’t try transporting any living thing, including herself, for a good long

in that moment.” She sighed. “He must be very strong at magic. I’ve exhausted my reserves just

I

likely had a

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