After receiving Susie’s news, I needed a moment to catch my breath. I didn’t understand. The royal

doctor had already examined Elva, as recently as the day before. How could she have a fever again?

Wouldn’t the doctor have detected any anomalies before they fully formed?

Those questions would have to wait. For now, all I knew was my daughter was sick and I had to get to

I

I

gett

her.

I pushed away my soup bowl, and apologized to those around me. “I’m sorry. There’s an emergency. I

have to go.

Susie squeezed my arm, then returned to her chair.

As I hurried toward the exit, I glanced back at the table.

A bold girl had already slid herself into my abandoned seat. She must have said a joke, because the

people around her laughed. Even Nicholas looked at her and gave a relaxed smile.

been so tense when I had been sitting there. But now, in

comfortable enough

wormed its way inside of

was sick. I needed to get to her and find out what

of my maids was in the hallway

are in with her now,” the maid said. She kept pace with

bedroom.

this happen?” I

seemed fine until about an hour ago. The

thought at first she

up to her chest.

doctors, presumably, stood a few feet away from the

side. I touched the back of my fingers to her

out from one closed eyeild and talled down her

here now.

soothed by my presence,

watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else occurred, I stepped back from the bed to

them, they stopped their hushed words to each other and

The other had a pitying

I asked. “What’s her

at each other, then back at

is no treatment plan,” the blank one

must have misheard. “Excuse

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