Mahnu, An Immortal's Journey

Chapter 25

Betty looked at the King apologetically, showing signs of being scared as well, "I would assume it's because she's been out all day and didn't eat...Your Majesty."

Closing her eyes to what she said, she really felt like she was going to get a beating for not looking after Cassandra well enough. How dare she not feed the King's woman well enough!?

She was entirely sure that she will get punished for this!

"What? Why wouldn't she eat, dammit!"

Gently, he picked Mahnu up and asked where he should lay her down.

"It's properly because she didn't eat when she was..."

The King quickly interrupted Marcus, "Hush, Marcus."

He sighed, always so troublesome. He looked at Mahnu's sleeping face and wondered how he had coped without her all this time. Moving a strain of her hair off her face, he wondered how we had missed seeing her here in Brackan all that time ago...

"Has she been with you for two years?" He asked, wanting answers.

If only we had looked harder that day! If we had only found her two years ago, I wouldn't had to endure two years without her!

"Yes, we found her unconscious and at the same time we were one of the ones that had also been sick, as it seems to be called." Betty stated this, knowing that more was behind the 'sickness', like everyone else that lived here in Brackan. Luckily, Betty and Donald had not done too much and were basically in retirement, earning small change every now and again...So, they had not left their place very often to be spotted to become a slave. They can't remember a few days at most and had felt very badly that they hadn't been able to help anybody that had looked lifeless beforehand. They had tried twice to feed and clothe people, but then felt very scared upon seeing more and more people become that way. Thinking ahead, they got as much food as they could and stayed in their small home, waiting...Waiting to either become like those just outside or waiting for those outside to become normal again...

Upon finding themselves separated when they 'woke' up, both of them rushed back to the safety of their home, only to have found the young lady close by to their humble home...

In these two years, Betty and Donald gladly took in the young lady, to make up for the fact that they weren't able to help back then. They did everything in their power to keep the young lady alive and tried to find her family...Yet, no one recognized her when they finally were able make a simple drawing of her...And when the young lady finally woke and was walking around, she did not want to meet anyone and ask about her family herself. Betty and Donald took her in after that, calling her Cassandra and their daughter. It was a fulfilled wish, that they finally had a child, especially when they were already so old, but nonetheless, they loved Cassandra very much!
"Oh, I see."

"She was a frail thing. Didn't wake for a whole week. Then we were worried because she seemed to be bed ridden, unable to move much at all. But after two months, she was able to move a little bit more. We were often pacing, trying to come up with ideas to make sure she somehow got some food into her and had water a lot. We ended up using that over there, to help her digest everything."

The King looked at Betty, shocked, then looked to where she pointed to, seeing an obvious, homemade funnel type contraption, with a tube looking thing attached to it.

Donald then added, "At first, doctors were hard to find and then we were stuck by her bed just coming up with this idea ourselves, and even so, we felt like we had lost her twice! We were really scared back then."

"Again, Your Majesty..."

The King looked at Marcus and silently nodded. They were thinking that it was the same thing that happened with The Chest of the God's as well. Mahnu had been bed ridden for a month at that time but...