The Unknown

Chapter 52: Biology and Truths

Chapter 52: Biology and Truths

The family of seven returned to the camp at nightfall and all went their separate ways. Fenrir went to eat and drink more and talk to soldiers, while Hela went to speak to Akio to find out if anything had happened. Loki and Jörmungandr went back to the royal tent to look more into healing the Longbottoms, Violet and Jonathan went to check in with Eileen seeing if she was back in camp as she was spending the day at the castle with Severus, even if he was teaching. But the founders were also spending time at the castle, assessing it as they said, so it wasn't like Eileen was the only dead in the castle. Dahlia, however, had to go to see healer Saida as the healer requested that morning.

So that's how Dahlia ended up lying down on the high up bed in the healer's tent with her dress and undergarments off and two sheets, the first covering her up below the waist and the other covering the top of her chest. Her arms, face and a small part of her stomach was visible as the healer was examining the wound. The stab wound was healed now and was just a red scar but around it, the blackness of the poison was still there. It wasn't going around her stomach and up her chest like before, but it was still around the wound and covered it.

"There's something wrong, isn't there?" Dahlia questioned and by the look that healer Saida sent her two assistants, there was.

Healer Saida nodded and said, "signs of the poison should all be gone by now".

"Why is it still here then?" Dahlia asked nervously.

"I'm not sure," Saida said as she was handed a small wooden basin and a knife and said, "Princess, I need your blood".

Dahlia lifted her palm and Saida sliced the knife across it and she squeezed her fist into the basin, so that the blood would drop. One of the assistants then applied some herbal paste to her hand so it stopped the bleeding and it would heal faster. Saida then began to add different herbs and potions into the blood before it set on fire. All that was left was ashes which she placed onto some parchment and the ashes burned into the parchment, creating something Dahlia couldn't see.

Saida, however, looked between the piece of parchment and Dahlia and Dahlia nervously asked, "what's wrong?"

"It seems, Princess, part of your biology is allowing the poison to take root," she then looked to one of the assistants and said, "inform the Queen and Lord Loki".

"Don't," Dahlia said which stopped the assistant, "we've had a good day, if you tell them it'll ruin that. Please".

"I'm sorry, Princess. But your health comes before enjoyment. I have been ordered to report on your health to both the Queen and Lord Loki and their commands outweigh yours," Saida said and nodded to her assistant who then left.

Dahlia then lied there and looked to the ceiling of the tent, her fists clenched as a tear drop escaped her left eye and it streamed down until it fell on the sheets below her. She didn't want to ruin the day, she just thought Saida would see her, give her a potion, check her scar and be on her way but it seemed like she should have just avoided her until the morning.

It didn't take long for her father and sister to turn up, but unfortunately her brothers and grandparents also came. "Great, here's the rest of the crazies," she tried to joke but they all showed no sign of joking as they gathered around her bed.

Hela saw the black marks and turned to the healer and asked, "why's there still signs of the poison?"

Saida curtsied and said, "your majesty," before she answered, "I am unsure fully, your majesty. The antidote I have been giving her works with both her Midgardian and Jotun blood but from looking closely at her blood, it seems that part of her being is denying the antidote. A person born of two realms is extremely rare, so I was very cautious when creating the right antidote for her". She then handed over the parchment and everyone seemed to crowd around it to look but it seemed only Loki, Hela and Jörmungandr could understand it.