As a Noble...[Shadow House x reader]

Chapter 23: Sick

"🎵Let's make ourselves useful🎵" Emilico sings as Kate watches Emilico from her bed.

𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅...

...𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

Kate clutches her dress hard.

𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕?

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒃𝒖𝒕, 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒖𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆.

Kate takes her book in her hand as she stands up.

𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌, 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐.

𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆? 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔.

"This notebook is for writing down things I should not think about." Was written on the paper.

𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆? 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓.

" 'Great hall major cleaning with the other living dolls. Team members: Mia, Rosemary, Lou and Hisui.' Should she really be thinking about that?" Kate read out the contents of the book.

" 'I might as well use this as a diary too. ' Now she's making excuses."

Kate then turns to a few other pages then drops the book out of shock.

"Soot sickness? Drink lots of water."

An idea blossoms in Kate's mind.

Kate poured water into a glass cup in front of Emilico.

"You want me to drink this water?" Emilico asks Kate who's holding the nearly full water jar.

"That's right. You'll listen to what Kate wants, won't you?" Kate said as she looks at Emilico's face.

"Of course." Emilico then gulped down the water.

Kate then proceeded to pour more into her cup.

𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒚𝒐𝒎𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒕.