Chapter 26: A clear bill of health
Nothing was going his way.
Cass knew that he had dreams and visions for how this new life was going to go, but he didn’t think it would go this poorly. The first week of living in this new world and new body was difficult. He’d still get headaches, and the occasional nosebleed, but that wasn’t the worst of it.
The worst of it was the fact that since he’d pissed off Lady Fiona, an army of food had been sent to him. All of it within the strict diet that Sam had been forced to tell her, but with one problem. Sam had a way to test the food, and every time, he’d have to shake his head and give it away.
The food, for some reason, still wasn’t safe for Cass to eat.
It wasn’t as if he didn’t trust Sam, but he’d had to watch him test the food several times before he believed him. He’d wanted to eat some of it, to officially taste if there was something wrong with him, but Sam and Sir Forsythe nearly had heart attacks when they heard him say that.
He felt bad, but there was nothing he could do. He was worried Sam was going to have a heart attack. The maids and guards who were under his ’section’ of the castle were eating relatively well since Cass didn’t want to notify Lady Fiona that her gifts weren’t helpful.
That only caused a bunch of other problems. Cass, because he had spoken harshly to them, hadn’t been invited back for breakfast. He’d tried not to take that to heart, but also understood why. He was the one who discovered that he needed to keep his distance for his ’quest’ as Lady Ava had put it. It would only hurt more if they got closer and then he left. Besides, he didn’t even know how to have friends. He’d probably do something weird and freak them out even more.
He’d also had a Doctor hounding his door for the whole week that Sam had forced him to remain in his chambers to recover.
Cass, who didn’t like Doctors, shared that similarity with Lord Blackburn, so without Cass needing to say anything, Sir Forsythe had turned the Doctor away. He already had enough with Sam being a constant, uh, caregiver by his side, he didn’t need another person added to the mess.