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"You just said you could."
"I can—just not right now. I take this prescription … for depression and other stuff…and it cuts
me off from the magic."
He threw his arms up in the air. "How can I teach you to walk through dreams then? How else
are we going to find Rose?"
"Look," she said angrily, "I don't want to take the meds. But when I was off them … I did really
crazy stuff. Dangerous stuff. That's what spirit does to you."
"I don't take anything. I'm okay," he said.
No, he wasn't, I realized. Lissa realized it too.
"You got really weird that day when Dimitri was in your room," she pointed out. "You started
rambling, and you didn't make any sense."
"Oh, that? Yeah … it happens now and then. But seriously, not often. Once a month, if that."
He sounded sincere.
Lissa stared at him, suddenly reevaluating everything. What if Adrian could do it? What if he
could use spirit without pills and without any harmful side effects? It would be everything she
had been hoping for. Besides, she wasn't even sure if the pills would keep working anymore….
He smiled, guessing what she was thinking.
"What do you say, cousin?" he asked. He didn't need to use compulsion. His offer was plenty
tempting in its own right. "I can teach you everything I know if you're able to touch the magic.
It'll take a while for the pills to get out of your system, but once they do …"