Apollo's Child

The 1000 year old doctor feeds me a delicacy

I woke up in a bed that was not my own. The room was white and had many windows. It smelled of latex gloves and microwave dishes. It was clear I was not at home or at school, and I figured I was probably at the hospital. That wasn't super alarming to me. Honestly, I was just glad I hadn't died yet!

Wait. How did I end up here? Was it the man from my dreams? Did he bring me here, or did someone call an ambulance? I lifted the blanket I had slept under because I was getting warm. I was surprised to see that I had no burn marks at all. In fact, I appeared to not be in a bad state either.

I was about to get out of bed when a doctor came in. "No young man you have to get back in bed. Your mother will be here soon to pay you a visit". This doctor sounded like he was 1000 years old. He didn't really look like he should be that old though, he looked somewhat in his mid-40s. His hair had started to become a little bit gray and he had some light wrinkles around his eyes. Nothing unusual. I couldn't look for too long, since he was coming over to my bed with in his hands two things, that didn't exactly strike me as medical instruments.

The first one wasn't unusual, it was a glass of water. In his other hand he held something that kind of looked like a clump of very gold butter. He walked towards me at a very slow paste, while I sat on the bed. "Young man" he said, "I am about to do something that might be considered to be quite reckless. I am about to feed you a piece of ambrosia. Okayyyyyy that kinda sounded like he was going to feed me some kind of experimental drug or something, but i had no clue how he wanted me to consume the weird piece of butter or i guess ambrosia with a glass of water.

"You might know ambrosia as the beverage of the gods. However, it can also be consumed in solid form. But ambrosia, or nectar as it's sometimes also called, is deathly for humans and other mortal beings. But fear not young man because i susspect you are not quite human, and i think you will get out of here just fine. So sit back and enjoy, since ambrosia takes the taste of your favorite food or beverage, I trust it will taste like a true delicacy".

Uhm did this fossil of a man just tell me I'm not human? honestly I've hear a lot of bullshit from bullies before, calling me an alien or something like that, but this was a doctor, about to feed me something I could literally die from. I was curious as to what he was about, and wondered what it would taste like. But who knows maybe it was just some kind of sedative and this guy probably thought I was scared and needed a story to distract me.

The name ambrosia however, sounded like something straight out of the stories my mom told me when I was little about Greek gods and monsters. About demigods and quests. Some weird freaky beverage that could easily kill anyone who was not supposed to drink it, fit right up that ally. Maybe my mom and this doctor were conspiring against me for accidentally setting fire to the drama classroom. Maybe she was angry at me. But I didn't set fire to the classroom!

It was all the fault of the sun.