"Healing… Elixir?"
Ruby's eyes widened in shock.
She had never heard of that. Ever!
No. This… this was not… This wasn't a ripple from a changed choice, or a butterfly flapping its wings. This felt like an asteroid crashing into her carefully memorized timeline. Something new. Something that hadn't existed in her past life at all.
"Nik… are you sure it's not a scam…?" The words tumbled out of her, hasty, almost panicked. She hadn't meant to sound so desperate.
"Why?" Nikolas turned to her fully, his icy gaze sharpening. "Do you see this as a scam in one of your prophetic visions?"
Prophecy again…
Couldn't he just listen to her? Couldn't he credit her own intelligence, her own judgment, for once? Did every warning have to be wrapped in the name of a vision for him to even consider it?
"No, but it's… very suspicious," she insisted, forcing her voice back gently and reasonably.
