Chapter 30

"Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery."

-Dante Alighieri, Inferno

"I have never seen a body in such a terrible state. She looked like she had been dead for weeks," Zachary said when he was taking me to the Accident and Emergency Unit. Will, the second paramedic, had done what he could, but my face needed to be seen by a plastic surgeon to limit the scarring. I refused to go to the hospital in the ambulance. I couldn't afford to lie in bed when there was an A'rea on the loose, and I still had her scent all over my skin. Besides, I had a few other useful elixirs at home, and getting doped on human medicine didn't particularly appeal to me.