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.

phone every night. The

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

keeping a tight lid on each other’s

toxins in Charlotte’s body would act up once every other day. When that happened, Dr. Felch would let her take the herbal medication. Charlotte would fall asleep after that and wake up feeling

repeated the drill for another

full of herbal ingredients and

to Hayley’s vegetable garden, the latter

preparing some herbal soup in the kitchen while stealing glances at Dr. Felch’s laboratory every so often in

during dinner. Instead of giving her the usual herbal medicine, Dr. Felch

their bedroom, they found that

explained, “I have prepared this on

the treatment?” Mrs.

“Quick, we need to immerse her

“Alright, alright.”

they settled her into the bathtub. After which, Hayley

bedroom, Dr. Felch started giving verbal instructions

Felch’s instructions, Hayley inserted a dozen of needles into

purplish-black toxic blood started flowing out slowly

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