Harmful Parts

"Do you think the elders are aware of the fae connection?" Sam asked.

"That is a good question. I mean… why would they be? But who knows what they know," Greta answered. "I would have never imagined they had some kind of insane child hidden in the council doing research for them and making potions."

"Zoe is… creepy," Sam grunted. He couldn't think of a word that quite fit her. She was really young and yet clearly very intelligent. And she was strangely fixated on August. "Didn't August say something about her being different?"

"Yeah. I wonder what she meant," Greta replied.

"She was talking about how she saw Zoe with the Veiled. Her pupils were black when she was looking at her," Graeme mumbled. "We should have brought Zoe with us. Maybe she could have helped."

"No way. I don't trust her at all. Whatever useful information she has would be compromised by her own motive," Greta replied.

"August didn't seem afraid of her," Sam pointed out.