Marked: Part 2; The Wronged

Chapter 36

"She doesn't remember anything?" Jkdek asked Oglm.

"Not that I know of. But I haven't been in to see her. The only one with her is her mother."

"Let me see what I can do." Jkedk waved him on. They stopped at the front desk. "I would like to request an audience with Miss. Hmeqqfk please." Oglm shook his head.

"How long before we can see Amilia Cripple?" Oglm said softly to the man.

"I'm not quite sure. Let me go and check for you two." Oglm shook his head.

"Thank you." He looked to Jkedk. "Try to not use fancy words. They might work in the frilly council room but not at an Urgent care." Jkdek laughed and then rubbed the back of his head.

"Sorry, force of habit." The gentleman came back to the front desk and sat down.

"Go ahead and go on back." He stamped their hands with the date. "She is in room eleven a, under doctor Jacque." They happily shook their heads and then went on back to find her. They got to the room, knocked on the door and walked in. The doctor was in there, just checking up with Amilia. He smiled at them and then left the room. Cristel was sitting in the recliner near Amilia's bed. Her foot was going a mile a minute, she was extremely worried. The other night became too much for her and Amilia to handle alone, so Cristel ultimately decided to bring her to the Urgent care. Cristel jumped up to greet the two men.

"Has she remembered anything yet?" Oglm asked Cristel.

"No, they gave her a sedative and she's been sleeping ever since."

"So what can you tell us?" Jkedk asked her sincerely.

"Not much I'm afraid. She texted me saying she was on her way for dinner from the arena and that she would be there soon. The next thing I know an hour has passed. I thought it was odd so I went out looking for her. I found her a few miles west of the house and marked up and bruised. I took her back to the house, nothing looked serious so I didn't need to take her to an urgent care. But the bleeding wouldn't stop so I rushed her over here." Oglm nodded his head at her.

"Go take a break, I can watch her for a while."

"Oh, no, don't take it that way. I want to stay with her. I love her, she's my daughter."

"Are you sure you don't want to go grab a meal or a drink?"

"No, I'm fine." She said smiling.

"Well here's water anyway." He set the bottle down on the end table. They waited with her for about an hour then finally Amilia started to wake up.

"What's going on?" She managed to mumble trying to sit herself up.

"Oh, no, no,no Amilia! You just lay down and rest." Cristel said putting her hand on her shoulder to put her back down. Amilia went back down easy and her mother covered her back up with the blanket. Oglm came up to the bedside and Amilia looked at him.

"Hey, there, you know where you are?" Amilia looked around the room.

"The hospital?" Oglm nodded his head.

"Sort of, sure." He stopped a moment to sit down in the chair next to her. "Can you tell us anything?"

"About what?" Oglm looked to Cristel. "How much sedative did they give her?"

"I'm not exactly sure, but they definitely gave her enough to knock her out. She was sleeping the whole time until you all got here."

"Ah, alright. Amilia do you know how you got hurt?"

"I don't know. I don't really remember..."

"Nothing, nothing at all? Any people or things like that?"

"I, I, I think there were trolls? Two of them maybe?"

"Alright, thank you. Now try to get some rest." Amilia fell back asleep quite easily. Within a few hours she was feeling much better and woke up to the doctor in her room. He said she could leave since all her injuries seemed to be gone. Amilia got up from her bed, she no longer had an IV in her arm. She left the hospital with the doctors approval. She didn't even think about letting Cristel or Oglm know that she was released. She just wanted some alone time. She had to think things through. She didn't exactly know who or what attacked her and ultimately put her in a bed. She needed to find out what happened so that she could paint a better picture for her mother, Oglm and the council. She also wanted to know who was added to the council. To tell you honestly, the council is made up of all princes, excluding Jkdek. So two more princes were on the council, or at least that's what she saw. There could be a princess, but it was unlikely. She decided to try the outskirts of the Market first. She figured if anyone pulled any strings it would be Unora, and of all people, Amilia knew where her lair was. Walking along the walls and looking at the warnings didn't seem to jog her memory. In turn, she found the doorway to Unora's lair and went inside. To her surprise she wasn't there. It was actually quite bare. It didn't have her usual garb or color to it. Not finding practically anything there she returned to the Market. She found her way back to where she had gotten hurt. She remembered how she had walked down the road thinking about ways to find her father and make Cristel happy again. As she neared the house something seemed to catch her eye. It was a quick glow of purple. She vered from the street to see if she could find whatever it was. She looked around for a while until she saw her father in the distance. Suddenly he lifted his arm up and flung his wrist up with an open palm. Before she knew it, the ground started to shake and two giant balls of what looked like rock rolled towards her.

"Gah!" Amilia screamed, thrusting her body up from her hospital bed. The blanket flung off her upper body and the only thing she truly heard was her BPM going wild on her machine. Cristel came over to her bedside as quickly as humanly possible and placed her arm on Amilia's lap. "Trolls." Amilia started. "It was two trolls."