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.

to it," Nesryn said, but the High lady kept pushing away

I don't want to drink

discomfort on her face wasn't because

her body again. Examining her more intently. Her fingers were shaking as she covered her

turned over to my mother's notes on this

my mind

affects the heart, the body below the neck starts to age like a mortal and it shows the same complications as a mortal in old age

the treatment so that the body can absorb maximum from the

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

to it. Making the treatment a lot more

such heavy doses. Their bodies might even reject the

them to

their tongue. It can be far more effective than enforcing the prescribed treatment. Because the brain still has immortality factors and the absorption of medicines through their tongue makes it much easier and doesn't put their body

body recovers enough to absorb the medicines

recovered enough, the prescribed way of treatment

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

with a lot of struggle. Before she could gulp down

Alessia gasped, slapping her hands over

her back as she hiccoughed

gaped at

the full experience. You won't find

call Raven," she threw the medicine right at a maid who caught it deftly. She

nothing... wrong with the medicines. They are

in my chest. Was she blaming herself for not being able

lady said in a tone that broke

lowered her phone,

see his mother even when

me kicked

was something I could do. Something I had never done before. Something I had only read about. But

it would bring the High lady's condition

walked to the potion box, analyzing the contents in those vials with the reference pictures I had in my mind. I fetched a vial

think you are doing?"

chew it raw and keep its juices

our High lady?" Lady Alessia glared at me.

dried roots of wild venus..." I recited

silence

devil's name!? Nes, what is she

squinted her eyes before

I asked, and a maid instantly got

the stained gown clean, trying my best to not

I peered at the floor as I presented her with the morarentha flower. "Even if it doesn't work, there will be no

outsider, and it was only logical for them to not trust me at all.