Chapter 90: Fever
"No!"
Lyra’s loud shout woke up Noah who was sleeping beside her. He frowned and looked down at Lyra mumbling in her sleep.
Her eyebrows were tightly knit in agony with sweat covering her entire face. She breathed heavily and looked like someone in pain.
"Baby dove?" Noah held her trembling figure in his arms and called her softly making sure to not startle her.
Whereas Lyra continued to mumble painfully in her sleep "Please...don’t go". Her voice was laced with sadness and desperation making Noah confused.
He continued to hold her, caressing her back but soon panicked when her body started becoming hot with fever.
"Are you okay baby dove?" he asked as he checked her forehead with his palm.
"You are burning up!" his voice shook in terror learning about her fever. He laid Lyra on the bed and tucked her inside the animal skin blanket to avoid the cold breeze from the night sky. After that, he got down from the bed and rushed out of the room.
Climbing down the stairs, he rushed inside the bathroom, then filled a small stone jar with water, and went towards Blake’s room. Holding the water pot in one hand, he knocked on the wooden door of the room.
Inside, Blake opened his snake eyes and looked towards the door. Flicking out his tongue still in his beast form, he sensed Noah’s presence outside the door. Turning into his beastman form, he strode towards the door and opened it, "Why are you here at such a late hour?"
Noah retreated from the door and answered him in an anxious voice "Baby dove is burning with fever, I thought about informing you before calling the witch doctor"