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“Do you know what day it is?” he asks me.
“No. But I never know.” He smiles and pulls out a thermometer.
“Open up.” He places it under my tongue and then holds my wrist and checks my pulse.
After a minute, he pulls it out and checks it. “Normal.”
He frowns as he stares at me in silence, clearly contemplating what’s wrong with me. “Vomiting, upset stomach, headaches, chest pain, erratic heartbeat, disorientation and confusion attimes. Anything else?” He glances around at each of us, and I try to determine if anything else is wrong.
I realize my mouth has been tasting weird since I woke up so I tell him, “My mouth kinda tastes metallic.”
“You never told us that,” Ranger says in worry.
“I just realized.”
“Let me take a look, stick out your tongue and open wide,” Omar tells me as he tilts my mouth towards the light. He quickly pulls back with a worried look on his face.
He pulls a napkin from his pocket and tilts my head to the side. “Spit on this for me.” I frown but do as he says, and when he pulls it back fear fills me as my eyes bounce up to meet Arrow’s.
“It’s blood,” I say, stating the obvious.
“Where is it coming from?” Blaze asks worriedly as he leans over Omar and scans my body.
“It’s internal.”
Everyone is silent, and I turn my head to Draven who’s still seated with my head in his lap. “Draven?” I whisper. “I’m scared.” He brushes a tear away from my cheek, but I see his own eyes grow glossy, and that scares me more than anything.
“We’ll figure this out, Elora, I promise.”
“Okay,” I whisper before rolling towards his chest and pressing my face into him, silently letting the tears roll free as he holds me tight.
“What do you mean you don’t know?” Arrow asks angrily from behind us.
“She must have fallen and hurt herself internally.”
“She hasn’t been out of our sight, there’s no way she’s hurt herself,” Ranger says adamantly. “What else could it be?”
“Some forms of poison could look like this, but you said you’re sure she hasn’t ingested any.”
“She hasn’t,” he says in frustration.
“Well, unless she’s been cursed, I don’t know what else it could be.”
Chapter thirty-one
Arrow
Iwalk Omar to the door but my mind is reeling. She can’t be dying. I refuse to believe it. But what could it be? He joked about a curse, but the idea takes root in my mind. We know she didn’t injure herself or ingest any poison, but a curse… she could have a curse on her and we wouldn’t even know.
Who could have cursed her, though? I think back to when it started. It was pretty much the moment we arrived here at Highcrest castle.
I stand in the foyer and look around as I let my mind wander. There are only a few other people working here, maybe one of them knows something.
In the kitchen I find the cook, Rusty and the house manager, Gerald. “I’m glad you’re both here, the Princess is very sick, andit started as soon as she got here, do you have any idea what it could be?”
They both glance at each other then shake their heads, moving back to their tasks.
That wasn’t suspicious at all.
