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 up and close

the apple. She was concentrating hard. A line appeared between her brows. Her mouth was a hard

a warning, the apple disappeared from Veronica’s

but a moment. In one blink, it had moved from there to

even happen at all was a difficult thing to wrap my mind around. Objects

But after a moment, she straightened once more and held out her hand for the apple. When I gave it to her, she placed it on the table again and sliced it in half with a knife. She sighed

seemed like a perfectly normal apple to me. Red skin, yellow inside, with the seeds in

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expecting something different?” I

scrambled things,”

but I had enough of an understanding to know she shouldn’t try transporting any living thing,

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

more practice,” I said in encouragement.

likely had a tutor.”

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