Beyond this World - Dragon warrior (Book 1/?)

Chapter 10 (Part 2)

"Most of the food I eat ends up being vomited." The boy confessed clenching the jar tightly. "I hope I can finally fall asleep tonight. I'll be going now, thank you..." and so he lifted his frail and weak body from the examination table and slowly left...

The physician got back to doing what he was going before the young man showed up. He took a rather old looking leather-bound book from a shelf close to a large window; it was heavy and it was difficult to hold for too long. A knock on his door startled him and he dropped the book, barely missing his foot, causing a big cloud of dust to rise up. "Come in...!" He said through a cough as he desperately trying to get the window open.

In walked Sir Cameron with a confused expression upon seeing the physician waving his arms like crazy at an open window. "Is this a bad time, Gregorio?" The knight awkwardly asked.

"No, not at all. Is there something you want to discuss with me?"

"He seems worse today..." The knight looked helplessly at the door. Gregorio joins him once most of the dust had cleared out.

"His condition is harsh; what's worse I don't even know what is causing his condition. The medicine I gave him just now will help relieve him for a short time." The knight looked at him with both surprise that he can't tell the cause of the boys disease and concern that due to an unidentifiable condition there might not be a viable cure.

"These are some frustrating and troublesome times... I will admit, I'm afraid of what's to come. I haven't heard from my squire for so long; I heard others discussing whether he's alive or not..." The knight clenched his fist tightly. "I dare not make that kind of guess."

"It's reasonable that you are concerned for him. He was friends with the boy just now right?" Gregorio comforted the knight, and recalled that this boy with hazelnut hair was one of the three involved in the first case of occult kidnapping.

"They are friends." Sir Cameron disliked how the physician used past tense. "Though I might be saying this only to comfort myself... I trained that boy and he has Tundra with him; if anything those two can look after each other."

"You are placing the life of your squire on a wolf?" Gregorio found this statement obscene. The knight chuckled.

"She's no ordinary wolf. They have a bond like no other, but it's a double edged blade; they are both each other's strength but also each other's weakness." Sir Cameron concluded. "And yet I don't doubt them for a second, I'd be comfortable with putting my own life in their hands."

"The older you get the weirder you are." Gregorio lifted his arms in the air and picked up the heavy leather book from the floor and quickly passed it onto the table, knocking over two larger and slimmer glass containers with herbs and roots. Seeing the physician was about to concentrate on work, Sir Cameron bid him farewell and gave him the peace he needed.

Aaron dropped a pile of branches he collected onto the floor and arranged it in a campfire. Starting a fire now is way easier than it would have been a week ago. He drew the Hellblade and the fire ignited instantly.

Tundra came back shortly after she left, carrying three already gutted fish pierced on a stick and she held it over the fire. The two said nothing but smiled. Night time is approaching and this will be their first long rest stop. Once the stars lit up the vast and dark sky, the two gazed at the stars and then fell asleep in each other's arms.

In the morning, Aaron refused to get up and release Tundra from his embrace; though she didn't want it either they had to keep moving. She struggled to free herself; Aaron was drastically stronger than he was yesterday. Tundra was glad to see he was getting stronger but the rate of which its increasing is slightly alarming.