For the three days following, Charlotte had busied herself with gardening chores. Other times, she would help Hayley prepare meals in the kitchen.

Her days were leisurely, albeit her treatment was behind schedule.

Dr. Felch would extract some daily blood samples from Charlotte for testing. However, to everyone’s dismay, there was no breakthrough yet.

In contrast to Mrs. Berry’s anxiousness, Charlotte was unusually laid back.

After all, there was nothing she could do.

Hayley was a cheerful girl. She loved to hum a tune or two when doing her house chores. As such, it brought joy to the room whenever she was around.

 

The scenic and secluded place that Charlotte was in helped her feel more relaxed during her treatment too.

Mrs. Berry was rather impressed by Dr. Felch’s acupuncture treatment on her chronic health issues. She urged the doctor to expedite the antidote research for Charlotte.

 

However, Dr. Felch would repeat the same answer each time he was asked, “We can’t rush it. These things take time.”

Mrs. Berry would then sigh and leave Dr. Felch in peace.

the kids over the phone every night. The kids would share with her all

quiet about what Charlotte was up to. The latter, too, had not mentioned the

did a good job at keeping

every other day. When that happened, Dr. Felch would let her take the herbal medication. Charlotte would fall asleep

drill for another

ninth day, Sam came back with a bag full of herbal ingredients and put them inside Charlotte’s

tried to kill some time by tending to Hayley’s vegetable garden, the latter was bustling about in the kitchen, boiling pots after

kitchen while stealing glances at Dr. Felch’s laboratory every so often in anticipation of

herbal medicine, Dr. Felch asked Mrs. Berry to take

found that Dr. Felch

this

this part of the treatment?”

nodded. “Quick, we need to immerse her

“Alright, alright.”

down, they settled her into

giving verbal instructions

a dozen of needles

purplish-black toxic blood started flowing

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