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.

it," Nesryn said, but

want to drink

on her face wasn't because of the

Examining her more intently. Her

over to my mother's notes

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

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

to enforce concentrated concoctions to help with the treatment so that the body can

flipped the page, and there were

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

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

to keep it in their mouths, using their saliva to break it down.

bitter medicines and keep their raw juice under their tongue. It can be far more effective than enforcing the prescribed treatment. Because the brain still

body recovers enough to

the prescribed way of treatment

mental illness? What do you keep mumbling to yourself?" Cedric's voice snapped me out

the medicines with a lot of struggle. Before she could gulp down

gasped, slapping her hands over her mouth, her

back

gaped at the

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threw the medicine right at a maid

spoke through her coughs, blood dripping down from the corner of her lips. "There's nothing... wrong with the medicines. They are the... best meds of all the Infernal packs. I think I

blaming herself

wouldn't come anyway... so don't bother..." High lady

her phone,

see his mother even when she

gulped hard and clenched my fists. Something within me kicked in, and I stepped forward, having all the reasons not

done before. Something I had only read

it would bring the

contents in those vials with the reference pictures I had in my mind. I fetched

you think you are doing?" Nesryn

keep its juices in her mouth for a few minutes.

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

morarentha, dried roots of wild venus..." I recited the

me blankly in a silence interrupted only

what is she

eyes before letting go of my

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

wiped High Lady's lips and the stained gown clean, trying my best to not make eye

highness please chew this and keep it in your mouth. It would be much more helpful if you could allow its juice under your tongue." I peered at the floor as I presented her with the morarentha flower. "Even

was an outsider, and it was only logical for them to not trust me