Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-14. Temporary treatment

[Xanthea]

"When did they start teaching about diseases of the immortals in the mortal world?" Lady Alessia asked.

"Why would mortals teach about immortals? How would they even know anything about us? They only make it to our packs once they are dead," Lady Letitia said. Then she glanced at me and maybe she realized I wasn't dead yet or maybe that I was still alive. "Or when we bring 'em here alive until they're dead."

"Ok, folks. I asked her a question and I am still waiting for an answer," said Nesryn as her intense look bore into me.

I contemplated my answer.

"Alchemy," I said. "In my realm... in ancient times... there had been many alchemists who laid the foundation for modern chemistry and medical science. I read about it in one such book called 'Alchemy of light'," I said, maintaining eye-contact with her.

"Hmm? Isn't alchemy ours?" Cedric asked with a confused pout.

"It is ours. But from time to time, we have shared our knowledge with the earthly realm through those contracts. What does their realm call it?" Lady Alessia asked thoughtfully.

"The devil's contracts, black magic. They have all kinds of strange terminology for it," Lady Letitia said.

"Right. Right. Those illiterates like giving such unusual names to our ancient and sacred knowledge. There's nothing black and nothing magical in this study. It's all just natural dark science." Lady Alessia said.

"Alchemy involves risks. Mortals are never careful no matter how much we warn them and when something goes wrong, they come and blame us. Call us evil, haunted and what-not!" Lady Letitia scoffed.

"Exactly! We're just being us, like they are being themselves. Although weaker than us, still we don't complain. We're naturally evil, but those nutters choose to be evil and to their own blood more often than you think. They can always choose to be kinder to their own kind and kin, but they're just ruthless. Can you believe it? Being so cruel to their own blood?"

Lady Alessia's words etched through my chest, scraping uneasiness into my veins. I dropped my weary gaze with a tight gulp.

"Here, High lady, drink this..." Nesryn quickly prepared a concoction out of the herbs and boiling water and helped the High lady to drink it.

Taking a deep breath, I stopped the struggling emotions to rise to my chest.

Everyone silently watched the High lady. I watched them with something warm sprawling in my chest. I don't know what I was feeling because I had felt nothing like this before.

Maybe that was what a family looked like.

How everyone came together to care for the one who needed their attention the most. How their bonds needed nothing to grow stronger. There was company and belongingness, care and concern, strange uniqueness and profound individuality with rare acceptance.

I knew I could never be a part of this family. But just watching them from a distance felt like a soothing embrace of a mother.

"You need to finish the potion," Nesryn said.

High lady pushed the glass away and shook her head.

"Not anymore..."

Her complexion turned to a purple hue. I knit my brows.

have added sweeteners to it," Nesryn said, but the High lady kept

I don't want to drink

on her face wasn't because of the bitterness. It looked

her more intently. Her fingers were shaking as she

my eyes and turned over to my mother's notes on this

in the image of my mind as I read

neck starts to age like a mortal and it shows the same complications as a mortal in old age might face. So, it

the treatment so that the body

flipped the page, and there were my mother's notes in her cursive

could add a more humane touch to it. Making the treatment a lot more bearable for the patient. It is not

Their bodies might even reject the medicines in rare cases. Administering the medicines through veins puts the

the raw medicines and asking them to keep it in their mouths, using their saliva to break it down. Small doses at intervals of

more effective than enforcing the prescribed treatment. Because the brain still has immortality

body recovers enough to absorb

of treatment must be followed..." I

yourself?" Cedric's voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I opened my

Before she could gulp down the last bit

over her

Letitia stroked her back

gaped at

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she threw the medicine right at a maid who caught

corner of her lips. "There's nothing... wrong with the medicines. They are the... best meds of all

in my chest. Was she blaming herself for not

lady said in

lowered her

to see his mother even when

within me kicked in,

I had never done before. Something I had only read

bring the

potion box, analyzing the contents in those vials with the reference pictures I had in my mind.

think you are doing?" Nesryn asked, holding

will help her," I said. "She'll just have to chew it raw and keep its juices in

you to prescribe anything to our High lady?" Lady Alessia glared at me. "Just because you knew

jixum, four petals of morarentha, dried roots of wild venus..."

a silence interrupted only by

devil's name!? Nes, what is she

eyes before letting go of

a warm, wet towel?" I asked, and a maid instantly got it for

stained gown clean,

peered at the

was only logical for them to not trust me