Chapter 4: Equal Odds
The venom was spreading. If Rook didn’t act fast now, he could be in serious trouble. His arm was shaking as he took out the small injector capsule. He removed the plastic cap, exposing the sharp needle beneath. ‘Would this work? Can this work against neck bites? What will happen to me?’ Rook acted fast, he plunged the capsule in his neck. The immense pain brought him down to his knees. Normally he’d be screaming right now, but his energy was so low that he could barely stay awake. Rook slumped against the wall and immediately fell asleep, the capsule still in his hand.
The next morning, Rook awoke to discover that he had been brought to the Barracks. He placed a hand on his neck, but couldn’t feel the bite marks there. It was late morning, nobody else was in the dormitory. Rook had guessed that Alon had given him the morning off so that he could recover from last night’s patrol.
Over the next few hours, Rook thought about what happened last night. He felt incredible anger at discovering the nest of Dark Wing eggs, such an anger he never felt before. Then he was bitten. The creature had managed to force a lot of venom into Rook’s system. Rook had never been forced to wait that long before taking the remedy capsule before. Although Rook was somewhat confident that the remedy capsule would work this time.
Rook was feeling very hungry, he could have eaten a whole Scrab right now. He brushed the dust off his blue cap and placed it on his head. Rook headed down to the food hall to try and get some early lunch.
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