The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 45
I screamed, the fireworks unable to mask the horror that escaped from deep inside my body. It came out sounding primal, like something was eating me alive.
Aldrich had followed my gaze and immediately ran inside. The last detail I remembered was a pale Aldrich ordering the guards to watch me. I fell to my knees, traumatized at the demented sight.
Was I having another nightmare? Was this all actually happening? Were fireworks merely a figment of my subconscious, and Alan getting hurt was another addition to my dreams of bleeding friends? Everything was occuring in split moments, each event happening within the length of a second. I forgot the color of things and the names of people. I forgot that people actually died in real life, that blood does not ooze but pour.
ed me with heavy concern. They lifted me from the ground, I think. I wasn’t sure what exactly happened after I saw the blood stains on the stone.
mewhere safe. People were no longer dancing on the floor, but running across it outside.
.” I didn’t have the sense to command them further.
ting around me with their weapons drawn. We walked over to the spot underneath the balcony. I did not see
ld trying to put back together his favorite broken toy.
r nor a yell. Just broken words.
had to be a nightmare.
ed to a million pieces. I wanted to throw up as I saw the blood coming from some sort of head trauma, staining his gorgeous auburn hair. He definitely fell from the very balcony we stood
. The army general’s hands were shaking as he unfurled a note.
ping the note with blood stained hands. He then turned the other way and retched onto the ground.
avy upon my shoulders.
hed.
ith tears. I had never seen him so disgruntled. “Take…take his body back to my estate,” he whispered, and the crowd around us tried desperately to hear him, “to my infirmary.”
en I tasted salt, and my throat burned. Was I sobbing?
ts.
ieces.
eturn with Theo.”
…”
ill be back to check on you. I will make sure the whole village protects you.”
t help.”
watching, already prepared to fold me up and send me off.
your brothers?” I asked, my hands
at me with tears staining his cheeks. I had never seen him look more like Theo; he appeared like a lost, scared little boy.
o come pick me up and then I was being carried through the air
ll I could think about was my friend, nothing but a pile of meat and his bones most likely shattered to human sawdust.
ing while.
ake again, sifting over all the spells and healer strategies I learned within all of my years.
my only friend go.
***
Aldrich
lood on his nose crusted over, showing that it had just recently stopped bleeding. She must have broken it.
t him, but my mind felt too mad to consider which one was better.
r. Dead.
Killed.
kwards like a rag doll, cackling as he fell to the ground.
d, looking up at me with an ente
k the violent acts my body yearned to enstow upon him. “You are a liar, a sawyer rat, a murderer, and a treasonist.”
to himself, “Letting all your warriors sacrifice their lives for you sounds worse than anything I did.”
for treason and betrayal.”