Summary

Chapter 26 – Jasper sets a course for Canada with a detour to the apothecary who brews and bottles all of Phipps’s formulas and medicines in the town of Edgemere. Clara pleads with Soraya to help stabilize Maren, but Soraya refuses. While out in the town, Clara goes to a dressmaker for new clothing. The dressmaker explains the dagger that Clara carries is a healing blade. Anything it cuts, it heals. Back at the wagons, O’Neill tells Clara she looks very pretty in her new dress.

Chapter 27 – O’Neill tells Clara that he has an intuition that something is going to happen that night, and that they will escape. After dinner, Clara brews her sleeping tea while Jasper gets drunk. Phipps suddenly regains enough consciousness to accuse Soraya of poisoning him. He attacks and kills Soraya. O’Neill tries to intervene, but Jasper wounds...