Chapter 196
The room was still.
Not a whisper. Not a breeze. Only the rise and fall of Avery’s chest on the bed. Her skin, usually warm with color, had turned pale.
Three healers moved quietly around her, their hands steady. Bowls of herbs steamed in the corner of the room. One healer dipped a cloth into a mixture of crushed sage and moonwater, gently wiping Avery’s forehead.
"Goddess," she exclaimed, jerking back, her eyes wide with shock. "She’s burning up again. Her temperature is unnatural."
The second healer moved closer, placing her hand on Avery’s forehead. She winced, jumping back. "She’s not just burning up. She’s heating," she exclaimed. In less than a second, Avery had begun to sweat, so much so that the bedsheet got soaked in under a second.
"Her powers are tilted. It’s irking negatively in her body right now," the third healer said.
"Where is Elder Loris? She’d know what to do," one of them replied. The other two got moving, getting ice-cold water and a clean towel, they started to wipe her body in hopes that her temperature would lessen. It doesn’t. The ice water turns hot the second the towel is dipped into the water. It wasn’t working.
"Oh, this is bad. This is really bad. I’m afraid she will melt with how bad she’s burning up. She’s burning from the inside out, therefore we cannot cure it," one of them croaked out.
"So we just allow her to burn? Goddess, this is too much for her," one of them croaked out.
"Get Elder Loris! Where is she?" Just as the healer screamed, the door jerked open.
Elder Loris stepped into the room. Her robes were dark, her expression grimmer than they’d seen. She paused at the door, eyes locked on Avery’s body, on the way steam now lifted from her skin.