Chapter 33 - ROUGH NIGHT

"This room is kind of big." Jieun talking by herself.

She is now in the basement of the house. This is actually the first time she gets inside the room. Granny Susan said that room is used by her mother the most. No one ever set foot there without permission. Even after her mother death, Granny Susan never touches anything that was there because she knew one day Jieun would come by.

"Ahchooo!"

Jieun keep sneezing repeatedly at once. The area is still tidy but there are a lot of spider webs and dust that is scattered by her movement making her nose itchy.

All this time Jieun was so busy getting used to her new environment and life there that making her forget about the room. Today, while she was tidying up her bedroom, she saw the key to the basement that had long been given to her by Granny Susan. So she decided that today is a day for her to enter the room.

And now here she is. Watching intently all the things inside the room. She could see there that her mother, collecting all the research, experiments on medicines, herbs as well as the files of her patients there. Also, there are many simple medical equipment such as thermometers, stethoscopes and things that always inside first aid kits.

She also can find some more high level equipment such as syringe, scalpel, iv, surgical mask, gloves, which means that her mother also used to perform surgery.

"Who are you actually? Mom ..." Jieun asking to the air with all her heart. She really wanted to know. But, it's up to her to find the answer now.

As she explored the room, she also swept the area and wiped away the dust that was there, started to clean. She got a feeling that she will spend a lot of her time in that room after this.

She also opened the boxes that were neatly stacked in the closet to find out what was in them. One of the boxes has blue and green colour scrubs, and white jackets. Just like a doctor's uniform, wearing in her real world. She knows that because physicians in this Dream Land just looking ordinary and not having any uniform or any sort.

Irene flipped the clothes. She smiled. She knew for sure her mother had told Granny Susan to sew all the clothes. Just like her. Really, like mother like daughter. Maybe that's what crossed Granny Susan's mind before, when she ask her to make her design clothes. But the old women never denied her request.

Just as Jieun folded the clothes back, Ayana's anxious voice was heard from outside calling her name.

"Lady Jieun!" Ayana entered the room where Jieun be, in a hurry. Her face at the time seemed to be holding back tears. Never did Jieun ever see her looking that way.

"What's wrong?" Jieun also a little panic after seeing Ayana's situation like that.

"Quick. Something happens to the sixth prince. He is injured. Our physician is in another town right now and the other princes cannot go anywhere in this storm as this village is the closest to getting help." Ayana said a long sentence without even stop for breathing.

Storm? Jieun doesn't realize that the weather is changing outside. She's probably too occupied to be there. But that is not the case now. She need to move fast.

Probably her medical instinct kick in at the time as she unconsciously grabs her mother big first aid box that she arrange earlier and then ran upstairs to find out more about what was going on.

"Jieun, Prince Haru is in the treatment room now." Granny Susan informs her while also keeping up with her fast pace walking.

In their mansion there is also a building that houses a treatment room in case something is happening around in the village. They got one physician, but at this time he is not around. Also, big accident never ever happens before.

There, she saw all the princes surrounding Prince Haru who was on the examining table clearly in pain. The prince's face was clearly pale.

Jieun approach the sick prince with confident even with the curious gaze of the other princes.

"What happen?" She said in serious tone while her hand fast handling her patient.

"Komodo dragon got him in the shoulder. He is bleeding ever since. We try to stop the bleeding on the way here but its still flowing." Prince Ethan is the one who answering. The other princes just keeping silent at the time.

Jieun puts a thermometer that already sterilize inside Prince Haru mouth to check his temperature. Then, she uses her finger to count his pulse. She also uses stethoscopes to hear his heartbeat more clearly.

"How long has he been in this state?"

"About 15 minutes."

"40 degrees Celsius." Jieun make a little sigh. That kind of temperature is definitely too high.

"Can you remember that detail for me Prince Ethan?" Jieun choosing her assistant randomly as she didn't have a nurse to assist her anyway. Ethan just nodded, agreeing. He is the best to remember things anyway.

She is now wearing a medical gloves to inspect the injured area. Her hands quickly cut the clothes Haru was wearing so that she could do the monitoring better. After all, his clothes were already so wet and should have been changed from the very beginning.

Jieun make a slightly wrinkled face after seeing the wound. The wound was not very deep but began to turn blue and still bleed. The bacteria inside that komodo dragon saliva must already make the blood clotting, she conclude. Luckily the animal doesn't have venom but the infection could make someone die if not get a proper treatment.

She is thinking deeply what she could do now and its shown by her wrinkle sweat forehead.

Don't get her wrong. She is just the second year in her medical college anyway. She is just learning the basic and theory things, but now she is forced to do real-life medical attention.

Luckily she is not afraid and learn quite fast as she always watching her professor surgery videos before. So she knows one or two minor surgery if needed.

"I need everyone except Prince Ethan that will assist me out from this room. I will inform Prince Haru's condition from time to time, so there is no need for many people to be here. After all, medical attention need a proper air circulation. It's will be too suffocating for my patient. I will try my best to treat him." Jieun said in her professional voice.

"Please change your wet clothes fast and come here to help me." She also asks Prince Ethan politely.

After only 5 minutes, Ethan comes back to the now empty room and find Jieun in her green clothes, arranging the utensils on the table next to the bed where Haru is. She actually grab something from her mother's basement room just a minute ago and also changing into surgery clothes that she found before.

"Please change his clothes. I don't want him to get into hypothermia state." Jieun, that aware of Ethan's presence start commanding. In this room she is in charge no matter who Prince Ethan is.

Prince Haru is faint but his pulse and breathing still in good length.

Jieun, anaesthetize only the shoulder area that have the wound and start cleaning the wound with saline carefully. She uses forceps to remove some other foreign particles that she can see in the wound. Cutting the dry skin and blood that block her even the blood still flowed.

"Gauze." Jieun said whatever she needed and Ethan handles her the things quietly.

She need to apply pressure so that Prince Haru will not lose more blood or he probably will get seizures because of the low blood pressure. She just hope now her method can save him. Of course, she also didn't want her first patient to die in her hand. She also hopes that she is fast enough so that the infection did not enter Prince Haru's heart.

She observed Prince Haru's condition at that time. He is remained the same and no other symptoms occur. A good sign for now.

After and hour or so, Prince Ethan gets out of the treatment room after Jieun ask him to rest and went to the lounge where his other brothers is. He can see a tired face in each of them.

"We just can wait and see now. Miss Jieun will monitor Haru's progress from now on." He told at once, getting attention from his siblings.

"Is he still critical?" Leo asks.

"Miss Jieun doesn't know for sure. The wound has been already close up and she does whatever that she can. Just need to wait for Haru to wake up to make things clear. His pulse seems good anyway."

All of them let out a sigh of relief, even though Haru's situation was not yet completely safe. At least something is done.

Meanwhile, Jieun has not taken her eyes off Prince Haru since earlier. Each 30 minutes she will come closer checking his pulse, heartbeat, his wound, blood pressure. She is determined to save him.

Eun-woo comes into the room, watching. Suddenly Jieun ran at the side of Prince Haru who now seemed to be breathing too heavily. She checked the man's blood pressure. His blood pressure suddenly rising and his breathing started to get irregular.

"What happen?" Eun-woo cannot stand still after he saw that and also come closer. Jieun now performing CPR above Prince Haru. Her face looks anxious.

"Please!" She is begging.

Then, Prince Haru stopped the erratic symptom and calm down. But not Jiuen. She checked on him again. His pulse now very faint each time. She knows exactly what will happen next. No, this can't be true.

"Hey!" Eun-woo now get her attention.

"Calm down." He said.

Jieun watch the fourth prince. She remembers the day when both of them inside the forest before. The bird alive and well after her hand glowing with some kind of light. She grabs Eun-Woo's hand right now.

"Do me a favor."

Eun-Woo watch her intently.

"I need to try something now, but I don't know if this will be successful, but if it is, I don't know what is happening actually also."

Eun-woo can't understand the words that are now coming out of the girl's mouth.

"Please watch the door and don't let anyone come inside in the meantime. Let me try this. I swear by my life, I want Prince Haru to be save more than anyone."

Eun-woo watch the girl's eyes. He knows she isn't lying.

"You know I always have doubt to you. Why are you asking me?" He asked.

"Because I trust you." Jieun give an honest answer. No matter what Eun-Woo think of her, she trusts him. And that's what really matter.

Of course, that answer takes Eun-Woo by surprise.