Page 82 of Her Silent Knight

Chapter Twenty

SIN FOUGHT THE URGEto burst into tears.

Poor Nachik.She stared down at the Indian male lying on the cot with a white sheet pulled up to his chest. His skin was pale. His lips were starting to turn blue. He’d lost weight. He looked nothing like the picture Lee showed her on her locket, right before they entered his room.

There was an I.V type thing hooked to his arm and a monitor beside the bed. Sin had no idea if she’d be able to help him or not. She sat down at one of the brown stools Lee had pulled close to the bed. An elderly woman was seated on the other side of the bed, drawing a vial of blood.

“We check his blood daily,” the light pink-skinned woman told her. This must be, Zelna, the fairy healer Lee told her about. “We’re trying to see if the poison is fading.”

“Is it?”

Zelna shook her head while Lee wasn’t looking. Then she gave Sin a sad look. Damn. That was a, between us, he’s not going to make it, look. Sin didn’t even know where to begin. Um... how about his temperature? Sin placed the back of her hand against Nachik’s forehead. He was freezing. She moved her hand away. Nachik sighed.

“Oh my gosh,” Lee yelled. “He’s never made a sound before.”

Even the old fairy appeared shocked. “He hasn’t made a sound since we brought him to the med bay after the attack. Touch him again.”

“Me?” Sin asked.

Zelna nodded. Sin looked to Lee for confirmation. Lee nodded. Okay then. Sin placed the back of her hand against Nachik’s forehead. He was cold. Too cold.

“Have you tried warming him up?”

“We’ve used heated cloths. They don’t really help,” Lee told her. “They make him convulse.”

Nachik jerked underneath Sin’s touch.

“Like he’s about to do now. Move your hand Sin.”

Sin jerked her hand away just as Nachik started convulsing.

“Get the ice,” Lee yelled to the elderly woman all while trying to hold Nachik down.

Zelna removed the I.V from Nachik’s arm and placed a bandage on him. Sin wasn’t a nurse, but she was pretty sure you shouldn’t remove a needle from a convulsing person’s arm. Or should you?

Sin jumped out of her seat giving them room to work. She watched from the sidelines. Something about this didn’t seem right. When she touched him the first time, he sighed, like he welcomed the heat.

And when she touched him the second time, she’d felt fire in him. Almost like what she’d felt when she touched her dragon. Except not as big. Nachik wasn’t a dragon, but he was something that needed fire to live.

She was pretty sure of it. But she wasn’t one hundred percent positive. As a child, whenever she was sick, her parents would have her sit right in front of the fireplace and sweat it out, as they liked to call it.

It always worked. Fire made her stronger and healed her. Sin had a feeling Nachik needed to sweat it out. These convulsions weren’t a bad thing. It was his body’s way of healing.

Or something like that. Shit. She wasn’t a healer. She didn’t know how to explain it. All she knew was that every creature healed differently. They weren’t human so human methodologies and treatments couldn’t always be applied to them.

The door to the med bay burst open. In rushed Kaede followed by Rhen. Rhen winked at her when he saw her. Kaede’s eyes widened.

“Why are you here?” Kaede asked.

She instantly felt like a kid who was supposed to be in bed but had snuck out of the house to hang out.

“I-I wanted to help.”

He nodded. “Thanks.”

He wasn’t mad? Well, he shouldn’t be. Plus, she was grown as hell. She could go wherever she wanted to go in this strange ass compound. His eyes lingered on her for a bit before returning to the situation at hand.

“I got word that Nach was coding,” he told Lee.