Zach turned to Nessa after Dukiel's suggestion.
"Not on me!" She cried out.
"That wasn't what I had in mind, no." Zach slowly pulled out a glass bottle with a milky grey liquid from inside his bag.
"I wanted to ask if we should try it on your Millipede at once or if we should try it on a monster."
"...Why wouldn't we try it on a monster first?" She asked.
"Because this is all I have," Zach lied. He had more. He even had stronger stuff. But they didn't need to know that. If they thought he wasted everything right now, the spy would think he used everything right now. It was to keep Rierdan safe.
"And because a monster and your familiar will react differently. Your Snakelong Millipede has just taken some underworld energy into its body. The monsters we will find have been contaminated and changed by underworld energy. One has consumed underworld energy and the other is part underworld energy."
