Carmine (Completed)

Chapter 25

I shook. My stomach tensed. I leaned up and a wave of pain swept my fingers and up to my arm.

Fantastic...

I opened my eyes. Janilla motioned at something. Muffled voices entered my mind and before I got a gauge of my surroundings, Janilla looked down.

"Lady Carmine," she said.

"She's awake?" Valor's voice sounded distant. Soon enough though, his smiling face hovered over me. l sat up. The thick sheet rolled off my body. A firm tightness traveled against my stomach. As my hand moved along the dress, I detected wrapping under it.

"I treated and redressed the cut on your body. You should feel better for now," San Rosa said.

I groaned. Which part of me felt better? She must have lost her mind. I tried to pull myself up and I got dizzy instantly. My legs lost feeling, so I dropped into Valor's arms.

"Hey, easy there. You just fainted, take a minut-" Valor said.

I made the sound of a frog in my disdain. Five was there. The little girl with ponytails walked off and left down a corridor.

"We need to leave." I lightly pushed him to the side as I labored in between him and Janilla.

San Rosa turned as if she detected my eyes on her. In her cupped hands were glass vial bottles. The liquids were of different colors. Five came beside her.

San Rosa said, "I'm glad you are okay Carmine, should I address you by your title or-"

I tilted my head at her. "It might not matter. I will be dead either way." The weight of my current situation was clear to me.

Valor's eyebrows raised at me.

I plastered on a smile. "It's a jest."

That was only half-right.

I looked at the mark on my palm. The wounds were healed, but the memory was still fresh in my mind. The pain was a constant reminder of what awaited me.

When I slept, I felt no pain, I had no memory. If I was asleep-I shook my head and exhaled. San Rosa presented a vial in front of my face. Small white round orbs shook inside it.

She took off the wooden cap and poured out some orbs in her palm. She pinched one orb in front of my eyes. "Cut one of these in half and take it per day after your breakfast. It will help with the pain."

I took the orb. It rolled down into my open palm. My wrist wrestled with pain when her hand gripped it tight. I looked up at her face. "Do not take more than that do you hear me? No matter how sweet the relief, got it?" she said.

I kept still even though I wanted to step back from her glare. My wrist was ripped free or had she let go? I was not going to be taken for a child. "I understand it, San Rosa."

San Rosa smiled. "Good." She gave two other vials to Five.

"Carmine, let me cut that for you," Valor said. I turned and gestured it toward him.

He unslung his ax and I protested. "No, don't you dare cut that with your bloody ax."

He gave me an incredulous look before frowning. "I just washed it. It is not bloody my Lady. I mean, look at it." He gestured with the unwieldy ax.

I waved negatively at him. "Use anything else Valor, please."

He groaned as he started looking around. Five came up to him. Valor looked at him.

Five took the orb and turned. He threw the orb up. He made one motion with his hand. I felt pressure. A gust of wind passed me as his hand sliced through the orb. He caught both pieces in a crouch and gave me one.