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.

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

enough. I don't want to drink

discomfort on her face wasn't because of the

her body again. Examining her more intently. Her fingers were

turned over

flow chart appeared in the image of my mind as I read through it and all the ways TTA affected an

shows the same complications as a mortal in old age

prescribed to enforce concentrated concoctions to help with the

and there were

humane touch to it. Making the

process such heavy doses. Their bodies might even reject the medicines in rare cases. Administering the medicines through veins puts the body under the same

the patient chew the raw medicines and asking them to keep it in their mouths, using their

their tongue. It can be far more effective than enforcing the prescribed

recovers enough to absorb

enough, the prescribed way of treatment must be

do you keep mumbling to yourself?" Cedric's voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I opened

medicines with a lot of struggle. Before she could gulp

her hands over her

stroked her back as

gaped at

the full experience. You won't find

a maid who caught it deftly. She took

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

Was she blaming herself for not being able to take

so don't bother..." High lady said in a

her phone,

not come to see his mother even when she

my fists. Something within me kicked in, and I stepped forward, having all

Something I had never done before. Something I had only read about. But deep down, I had a strong feeling in my

the High lady's condition

reference pictures I had

are doing?"

keep its juices in her mouth for a few minutes.

at me. "Just because you knew a little about this disease doesn't mean you are

pods of funungus, three leaves of hetrotia, nine seeds of jixum, four petals of morarentha, dried roots of wild

a silence interrupted only by the High lady's

devil's name!? Nes, what is she saying?" Lady Alessia

before letting go of my

warm, wet towel?" I asked, and a maid

clean, trying my best to not make eye contact

would be much more helpful if you could allow its juice under your tongue." I peered at the floor as I presented her

only logical for them to