The Healer's Hymn

[BOOK 1]

Ivy Dair is working in the Infirmary, along with her mother, Lana Dair, who is a renowned healer and part of the Council of Healers, whilst her younger sister, Ava Dair, is still part of the Academy and is training to become a Royal Soldier.

One fine day, as everyone goes about their day, the doors to her floor of the Infirmary bursts open and a flood of soldiers wash them, all groaning and grunting in pain. Ivy stares in horror of the sheer number of ill soldiers, but starts preparing cots and mattresses for the sick. In just an hour, the rest of the healers are sent back home and the Infirmary goes into lockdown, but not a word is breathed out to the rest of the capital folk.

The rest of the day goes away from helping and tending to the sick, and as the hours pass by, the soldiers grow more and more sick, now having acute and agonising abdomen and chest pains. This was a rare disease none have heard of or seen.

Eudora, their floor leader and Ivy's grave enemy, picks four other healers to go with her to the Archives to obtain more information.

But that night, the High Council of Healers, a council of five members, in which Lana Dair was a part of, announced their decision of sending a group of healers out to the remote town of Erryl, where the disease was claimed to have first spread from.

Now, with the deadline of a week, Ivy and others set out by foot to an unknown, dangerous area, and with the looming threat of war, will they be able to find the cure before the enemy, or will the bloody war turn into a biowar ??