Volu 2, Chapter 33: A Place to Go
“This won’t... cause you trouble, will it?”
Leaning against the wall, Leticia looked at the small, shabby wooden house before her and asked hesitantly, “Bringing here...”
After noticing that Leticia was unwell, Ilo had half-forced her all the way into the village.
“What trouble could there be?”
Ilo said as if it were only natural. “Aren’t we friends? Besides, even if we weren’t friends, if I saw soone sick, I probably couldn’t just leave them alone.”
That did indeed sound very touching to Leticia. However, how much of it was true and how much was false remained highly debatable.
If only there were so wondrous little tool that could help people distinguish lies from truths...
Leticia, whose head was growing increasingly dizzy, could not help letting her thoughts wander like this. But she also understood that at this very mont, the best outco was to trust and accept another person’s kindness.
With a slightly drawn-out creak, the small wooden door was opened. A gust of wind ca rushing toward her, making Leticia involuntarily close her eyes.
Although her nose was a little blocked, that did not stop her from noticing the strange sll that truly existed inside the house.
What was this sll?
Leticia could not help comparing that faintly drifting sll with the slls in her mory. However, because she was sick, the deviation was too great, and she could not find a corresponding scent at all.
Moreover, that sll only lasted for a short while. With the ventilation, it quickly disappeared.
If Leticia had turned her head to look at Ilo’s expression when the door first opened, she would have discovered so interesting things.
For example, Ilo’s lightly furrowed brows.
For example, the hint of disgust in Ilo’s eyes.
For example, the faint tension and embarrassnt still remains in Ilo’s expression.
They were very slight, very well-concealed, but they truly existed.
If she could have seen these things, Leticia would probably have had more thoughts.
But all of these were only ifs. The dizziness and swelling pain brought by her fever, along with the ntal weakness caused by her life force draining away, had produced a strange chemical reaction. Leticia felt that being able to maintain her ability to think was already quite impressive.
So she only stared blankly and thought for a mont. After failing to reach an answer, she gave up.
Ilo’s ho looked very clean. Of course, a large part of the reason was that there simply were not many furnishings inside the house.
In a space that was not exactly small, only one bed, a small table, two cupboards, and a stove for cooking needed to be tidied. As long as a person had so ability to use their hands, they could keep it clean.
In the corner were piles of basins, jars, and pots. So were large and so were small, so were new and so were old. So carried water stains, while others were only sared with a little dark gri.
So simple...
Although the environnt was sowhat better than Leticia’s residence, it was not better by much.
“Lie down on the bed for a while first.”
Supporting Leticia to the bedside, Ilo lifted the thin and shabby bedding. “I’ll see if there’s anything suitable for a sick person to eat and prepare sothing.”
“Mm...”
She actually really wanted to move on her own. But as said before, when her life force was already insufficient, the weakness brought by illness was like a winter wind breaking into a house with no heating in the depth of winter. It almost took a person’s life.
She had clearly been able to move quite well just now, yet in the blink of an eye, she had wilted like a plant that had not been watered for a week or two.
Perhaps she would soon stop thinking altogether?
Hahaha, of course that was a joke.
Lying on her back, Leticia wanted to close her eyes. However, the mont she closed them, the scenes from that nightmare earlier would appear.
That black shadow clearly different from an ordinary person, that filthy and bloody little alley, that pitiful girl who had been completely slaughtered, still murmuring for her mother before death, hoping that everything was only a dream.
It was truly impossible to forget.
“Why would I have a dream like that...?”
Leticia weakly raised her hand and covered her eyes. “Could this be so kind of on? There’s no reason for to have a dream with no connection to anything for no reason at all...”
She did not know the place or the person in the dream at all, nor did she have any subject she could connect them to. Therefore, the basis for a dream born from the heart did not hold up very well. Not to ntion, this world did have all kinds of strange powers.
In other words, because she had beco a Heretic, it was possible that so strange power had caused her to have a dream that did not belong to her...
“Ah... My head hurts...”
After thinking for only a short while, the chaos in her mind turned into a black sea howling with fierce winds. Wave after wave surged, as if they wanted to destroy the entire space of her thoughts. “If this keeps going, I won’t even know whether I can survive...”
Her mind still rembered the prescriptions she had freeloaded from Apothecary Nicola, but in this world, people’s understanding of fevers was not sufficient. The dicines that could treat high body temperature were only those few kinds, going back and forth...
No, that was not right...
After sorting through her mories in a daze, Leticia discovered that it was not that there were only a few. There were practically none.
The people who went to Apothecary Nicola basically sought ointnts for treating external injuries, along with sedatives used to soothe the mind. She did not know whether the people in this village simply did not get naturally sick or what, but she rembered that Nicola had only prescribed dicine for sothing like a cold once.
And that cold was definitely not on the sa level of illness as her current high fever.
“This is troubleso...”
Her throat was very dry, her head was dizzy, the temperature of her forehead felt abnormal even to herself, yet her limbs carried a faint chill. Leticia knew this was her body’s dam breaking. If she could not find a suitable thod to stop it in a short ti...
At the very least, she could not stay here and cause Ilo trouble.
Suddenly, the sound of water rang beside her ear. Leticia turned her head and only saw Ilo’s slender body at her side. She seed to be holding a small basin.
At this mont, because she had turned her head, Leticia’s nose caught a trace of a strange sll.
No, it could not really be called a strange sll. Her head was swollen, her vision had even begun to double, her throat was dry and scratchy, and her nose was blocked to the point of panic. It would not be strange for her to catch any odd scent right now.
Before she had ti to investigate, Ilo beside her turned around. In her hand was a cold cloth that had been wrung dry.
“Try this first.”
Ilo placed the cloth on Leticia’s forehead with crisp efficiency and said softly, “In the past, my mother did this too.”
It seed she had heard sothing interesting.
The damp cold of the towel stimulated her mind, allowing Leticia to regain a little ability to think. However, it was also stimulating her senses, making the discomfort throughout her body grow clearer.
Looking at Leticia’s state, Ilo lowered her eyes slightly and smiled at her. “Your luck is good. I still have so flour here. I can cook so for you to drink.”
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