Chapter 24: BLOODY FOX
Iris couldn’t hide her curiosity at the palm size rock in her hand, she felt that nagging feeling again, the same feeling that enveloped her when she found her first magic stone.
Would this rock contain a magic stone as well?
Iris had never been to the mine site before this, therefore, she was shocked and overwhelmed by the knowledge that she could find it quite easily. She felt that intuition everywhere around this area.
Some were easy to find and they had a weak pull and the others were so hard, being buried deep down in the ground, or inside the mountain rock, you needed to dig deeper into the mountain to find them.
She was amazed by this new knowledge and was thrilled to know why she had this tingling feeling whenever she touched the magic stone.
Therefore, when she found a magic stone without anyone seeing, she hid it inside her rag-like dress. Her heart was thumping wildly. She could feel the cold stone against her stomach.
Magic stones had no use for a shifter like her, but then she was born as a runt, probably there was finally something useful that she could do with this useless body.
Iris looked around to make sure that no one saw her hiding such a precious stone and then started to dig around for another stone to exchange it for some warm soup and a piece of meat.
It would be so nice to have a warm meal after so long.
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Cane was accompanying his uncle, King Aeon, who had arrived just a few hours ago. They had a pleasant lunch together, but the Queen, Della, didn’t want to have Aria at the same table as her, knowing she was a lowborn and not from a privileged family.