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.

not bitter. I have added sweeteners to it," Nesryn said, but the

to drink it

discomfort on her face wasn't because

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

shut my eyes and turned over to my mother's notes

Thintoathanasia or TTA. A flow chart appeared in the image of my mind as I read through it and all the ways TTA

mortal and it shows the same complications as a mortal in old age might face. So, it often causes difficulty for the guts to digest and absorb the right nutrients from

concentrated concoctions to help with the

flipped the page, and there were my mother's

the treatment as follows could add a more humane touch to it. Making the treatment

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

keep their raw juice under their tongue. It can be far more effective than enforcing the prescribed

body recovers enough to

the prescribed way of treatment must

illness? What do you keep mumbling to yourself?" Cedric's

with a lot of struggle. Before she could gulp

Alessia gasped, slapping her hands over her mouth,

her back as she

gaped at the mess

for the full experience. You won't find the next chapter anywhere

the medicine right at a maid who caught

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

Was she blaming herself for not being able

High lady said in

her

come to see his

my fists. Something within me kicked

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

bring the High lady's condition under

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

think you are doing?"

to chew it raw and keep its juices in her mouth for a few minutes. This will

Lady Alessia glared at me. "Just because you knew a

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

silence interrupted only by the High lady's deteriorating

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

squinted her eyes before letting

I asked, and a maid instantly

clean, trying my best to not make eye contact with

its juice under your tongue." I peered at the floor as I presented her with the morarentha flower. "Even if it doesn't work, there

only logical for them to