Journey Into the Knight

Chapter Twenty-Five

Poison. How in the world could they have been poisoned? They had moved the three of them into a semi-circle around the fire pit, each of them had their own person looking after them. YongSun could not believe it, not once in her life had she even met someone who had been poisoned, now this was the second time Byul had fallen to it, clearly her life in the palace was more sheltered than she thought.

Byul, it hurt YongSun to see her on the ground, sick. How could it be that only an hour ago she had been kissing the girl, for the first time ever, now hopefully not the last time. WheeIn looked so soft as she attended to HyeJin, whispering to her as she brushed wet hair from her head. TaeOh had Luna, he tried to make it seem like it was only because she was the only one left, but YongSun could see the pain behind his eyes, he was worried for her.

Each of them assessed the person they were charged with. TaeOh was the most knowledgeable about poison, WheeIn had some experiences, YongSun only knew the limited things she learned from Ernesto's books. From what YongSun could see Byul was covered in a sheen of sweat, her face was pale and a slight shade of green. She had a temperature, but that was the end of the symptoms.

A half hour later the three conscious people were sitting by the fire discussing what they had found. "Unfortunately, it seems like a normal sickness; it could be any of a number of poisons." TaeOh said concluding the session.

YongSun sighed. "Then what are we to do?" IIt could be any number of poisons, they don't know how to treat it, nor do they know the progression of it, it could get a lot worse over time.

WheeIn, who was barely an inch from HyeJin, answered. "We go back to the party and we question them."

TaeOh snorted. "I doubt the wedding party is going to be happy about the strangers who crashed their celebration, threatening them for answers."

WheeIn leveled him with a look. "Who said anything about threatening."

Another snort. "There is no way you are going to level headedly walk in there and just ask a few questions."

YongSun wanted to laugh because she could picture it. "But someone should go and ask questions, there is no doubt they got poisoned from the party."

They nodded at her words. "I think I should go." TaeOh volunteered. "I have training in such things." His eyes danced over Byul, then to Luna, he even looked at HyeJin. "At least being one of Henry's soldiers will pay off in some way." He must have known the skill he and Byul possess from their years in the army, could now be used for good things rather than Henry's bidding, they had already paid off for the both of them in more ways than one.

WheeIn sat up straighter like she was bracing for a fight. "There is no way I am going to let you go without me, not when it is my people on the line." The way she said it sounded as if she considered Byul to be one of those people. "And I will not sit by while HyeJin is like this."

It dawned on YongSun that her role in this was going to be an insignificant one, she couldn't question people, even with her confidence in her powers and with Byul's training, she wasn't intimidating enough to get answers. "I will stay here then." They looked over at her. "Someone has to stay here and take care of them." They looked guiltily at each other, TaeOh went to open his mouth but YongSun raised her hand. "I have power, but it won't be useful in this situation. I have some training in medicine, I will hopefully be able to keep them healthy enough until you come back with answers."

"We can't just leave you undefended to take care of three people." TaeOh said like he was hoping WheeIn would wield and stay behind, neither of them seemed to want to go with the other, but none of them wanted to sit around and play nurse while there were answers to find.