Status Updates From Monster and Apprentice

Only read a little bit this evening, but I can already tell that I’m going to like this book, eee :D Beginning was good, at least. <3 Excited to read more tomorrow.

Rolan vomited violently into a blackberry bush.
"Why...didn't you...stop me...?" Rolan groaned, doubled over as cramps racked his abdomen.
"I told you yesterday the yellow mushrooms were poisonous," Luc said.
"Well, I forgot!" Rolan retched again. "You could have reminded me! you saw me pick and eat the blasted thing!"
"There's no teacher like a bad experience," the Arcanist replied, unconcerned.

With a raspy shriek, the Cryptic died. Or rather, it deliquesced, which was the word he'd learned from the Arcanist books. Since Cryptics weren't actually living, they couldn't actually die. But all the same, it looked like dying. At least, until the monster's body vanished, turning to blue smoke that faded in the air.
Animals didn't die like that.
Rolan stared at the piece it left behind.