Chapter 979 Don't Get Involved

• Alex
• “And you came here?” Skye asks.
• “I did, but I had no idea that Lunaria had a place like this,” I explain. “I spent a year in Aurorium, making connections, gathering forged paperwork and giving myself a fake background I could use to gain entrance to the university. I was young, in my early twenties, and easily passed for an undergraduate student, and when I was able to enroll, everything changed for me. I had access to the tech I needed to actually find a cure, but it’s been a decade. I moved through the motions. I’ve been in every lab, run every test, but my mother isn’t here. They don’t know where I am, and I’ve been gone for over ten years now. I chose to specialize in paleomicrobiology because I deduced I’d find the answers to my questions in a world that no longer exists, and I’ve come close. I get close to a conclusion, and something changes, new evidence reveals itself, and I fall back again. But then I met you. Then I saw the very particle I was looking for in your blood, like you’re made of it, but that’s the thing. It’s not something I can use to cure my mother. It’s not something I can bottle and sell to the masses. It’s your magic, Skye, and it cannot be replicated.”