The Midnites-Vampire

Chapter Seven

Meanwhile in Fort Greyrock, Seafoam had come up to check on Durnaa's condition, as she entered his room via the vents, she noticed that the light hadn't been turned on, the fire was out and that his breakfast was untouched and that Durnaa was still asleep.

"Damn!" she cursed, "he can't afford to stay asleep all day! Morgus will get him!"

She went up to the bed and gasped in shock and horror as Durnaa appeared to be dead.

He was lying on his back, hands folded across his chest, his eyes closed, and he was as pale as a ghost, two red marks on his neck stood out livid against his skin and he didn't appear to be breathing.

She went up and touched him, he was cold "Oh my God! Morgus got him!" she shook him "Prince Durnaa! you must wake up!!"

There was no response, she hit his cheek and gave him another shake, Durnaa moaned and colour seeped back into his pallid cheeks, "Durnaa! Prince Durnajar?" she asked.

Durnaa coughed and had trouble breathing, she could hear him forcing air into his congested lungs, and he shivered, his eyelids fluttered, and he opened them "Seafoam?" he asked sleepily.

"Oh, thank God! your still alive!" she said.

"What happened?" Durnaa asked drowsily "I feel like I've been drugged".

"Oh" she said, "I thought you were dead".

"Huh?" he asked.

"You looked dead, you weren't breathing" she said.

Durnaa sat up and said, "My head".

"You weren't breathing! and you were so cold! I thought you had died!".

"I must have fainted" he said "Man! have I got a headache!"

"You were unconscious?"

Durnaa nodded "Probably, I think I was drugged as well".

"How come you were unconscious?"

"It's my Rowigers Fever, you can slip into unconsciousness, regardless of where you are in the illness, it happened a couple of times, especially if you were running a high fever, and I also think that I was drugged".

"How?"

"After you left, I woke up and found an herb drink beside my bed, I thought you had left it, so I drunk it, and seeing I was too ill to check for anything I didn't".

"Why?"

"Probably to stop me from escaping" he said, "my head is pounding like nothing else, I need some Willowbark".

"Here" she said, handing him a flask "it's Willowbark, I made some up for you".

Durnaa coughed deeply and went into a coughing fit, he doubled over and held his head in his hands and moaned.

"Durnaa?" she asked.

Durnaa took the flask and drank out of it "thanks" he said.

"You should eat something".

He looked at the congealed, cold eggs on toast next to his bed, and felt sick to his stomach "no thanks" he said.

Seafoam looked thoughtful and handed him a bread roll "their fresh, I took some from the kitchen".

"You need them" Durnaa said.

"I got four, there are enough for me, Neptonius, and Dolphin, with one to spare, you need your strength".