I quickly excuse myself from Joyce and his group and rush from the room, with Charlotte following me..

“The doctor should be in with her now,” Charlotte said. “Mark sent a guard to retrieve her just as I left to

find you.”

“Good,” I said. We did not speak again as we hurried through the hallways and up the stairs.

Finally, when we made it to the room, we found the doctor tending to Elva in bed while Mark watched

  1. on. He greeted me when I came to stand near him.

“How long has she had a fever?” I asked. I hadn’t been gone all that long myself. She had seemed okay

before I left, but I had not thought to take her temperature.

“She only really started to feel bad in the past twenty minutes or so,” Mark said. “At first we thought she

had overexerted herself when playing, but after sitting for a while, she still didn’t feel better. When I

touched her forehead…” He lifted his hand and glared at it like it had betrayed him. “She was burning up.”

We watched on for a while, as the doctor examined and tended to Elva. When she finally stepped back,

motioned me over. I hurried to

in the past, partially because we caught

taken over the past weeks,” the doctor said.

fever itself is

okay?” I asked.

only needs rest. We will

else I will check back first thing in the morning.”

you, doctor,”

brave little girl, and a

the added assurance. Then Mark walked her to the door.

edge of the bed, watching Elva as she slept. The doctor had spoken

in as much pain as usual. Her sweating was minimal, and when I touched her forehead, it

and not hot.

palace had been doing wonders for her illness. The

just have been saving her life. The problem, of course, was that this

left, Elva’s health would likely

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half away, that unpleasant reality was

than

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