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Isolde looked at him and saw not a traitor, but a desperate animal. She agreed to help him, but warned him of the cost. To fake a death convincingly enough to fool the King's hounds, Julian would have to take a tincture of Atropa belladonna —the Deadly Nightshade. nightshade
Isolde did not invite him in. She stood by her boiling cauldron, sorting dried roots. "I can make a man believe he is a wolf, or make him see his dead mother standing in the corner," she replied calmly. "But the mind is like a mirror, boy. If I crack it to let the bad memories out, the light doesn’t reflect the same way anymore." If you would like to explore this prompt
It would widen his pupils until his eyes were as black as obsidian. He would see the world through a terrifying, beautiful haze. Isolde did not invite him in