Incompatible Interspecies Wives

I carried Ner in my arms and headed home.

There was no way I could leave her, weakened as she was, in a building treating the plague.

Ner had transferred all of her vitality to Sien.

If she stayed in that building and somehow caught the plague… weakened as she was, she wouldn’t survive.

Even Burns, in full health, had suffered through it.

So, we all agreed to take her back to her own room.

Her frail body seemed as if it could shatter at any moment.

Even moving her was a delicate task.

I feared her breathing would stop at any moment, so I walked slowly, carefully.