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Chapter Eleven

When the nurse finally arrived and took a sample of Olive's blood, Adrian had several silver rings put around the vial of blood which he had charmed with spirit. Afterward, he went off with Nina, and when Nina returned, she told us that Adrian had gone to bed, exhausted after his usage of spirit.

Soon after Adrian had gone to bed, Olive, Nina and most of the guardians left to go back to the royal court.

I was sad to see Nina go, but she pulled me aside before she went.

"Hey," She said to me as we stood in the downstairs hallway. "When you said earlier, you know, that you would be there to talk to me, did you mean it?"

"Of course," I told her, a little surprised that she would ask this.

"Well, here's my email address," She said, offering me a piece of paper. "Maybe we could keep in touch."

"I'd like that." I assured her and we shared a smile.

As Adrian and I flew home the next morning, I couldn't stop talking about Olive. Adrian, although he contributed to the conversation, seemed a little distracted. I didn't really think about that, though. All I could think about right then was getting back to Amberwood, making sure all was well with Jill, and then emailing Olive.

"So, how was Texas?" Eddie asked me a while after we got back. "Did Adrian learn anything?"

"Hmm?" I asked, looking up from my laptop, which was just booting up. "Oh, yes. He learned that there was a lot of spirit magic in Olive's blood. He's had a sample of it sent back to Court, to be examined by the other spirit users."

"That could be a major breakthrough," Eddie said. "I hope Lissa and Sonya can learn something from the blood."

I nodded in agreement. If Adrian's discovery really could prevent Strigoi turning people, then of course I hoped it worked.

Glancing back down at my laptop, I saw that I had a new email. I clicked on it and saw to my displeasure that it was Edward Brown, from my old base in Devon. My displeasure deepened when I saw his sarcastic message.

Edward Brown: Hey Guardian Raymond, I've heard about your recent trip to Texas. It must be nice, being able to travel to different places instead of being here in Devon, eh?

I scowled as I deleted the email. That wasn't even worthy of a response. I knew perfectly well that he was trying to talk down to me.

Trying to put him out of my mind, I wrote out an email to Olive and hit send.

N eil Raymond: Olive, I just wanted to let you know that this is my email address if you ever want to talk. I'll always be here to listen to you.

-Neil

I closed my laptop, knowing not to expect a response right away and went with Eddie from dinner.

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