Chapter 441 - 441

Hello everyone! I am posting the announcement first because I want to give you some very good news! But! First I want to thank you for following this  book all this time. Your support has been a great help for me.  Through your comments I have seen that you have come to love the side couples a lot and that's why I decided to write a side book, a spin off, for the favorite couple the upcomming year witht heir own special story. 

So please comment which chapter you'd like to get its own story and after a few comments have gathered I will decide. Thank you for reading!

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"Well, your wounds look horrible, let's see, how am I going to fix that…" Allias heard a voice. Faint with a sweet tone as he was unconscious. His eyelids fluttered, his green eyes facing the inside of a wooden roof. He groaned, feeling his whole body hurt just with him breathing and he tried to look around. His field of vision was very restrained since he couldn't move. He caught up to a few things though easily, just from the few things that he could see around him. 

He was in a small cottage. Probably deep into the forest, he could hear owls and the flapping of bird wings, the shaking of the bushes from the night wind. There was a small wooden window that was opened at the wall right in front of him. The house was made from polished stones while the roof and the floor were wooden. He was laid in a small bed, his legs hanging from the edge, on top of a hay mattress while his head was resting on a very comfortable pillow. He could smell something like soup, and could hear the bubbling of a cauldron. It smelled nice and comforting. He could also hear footsteps, back and forth in the small room. He tried to turn his head more to the right, since the bed was stuck right next to the wall on his left but he couldn't. He hissed loudly, signaling whoever was the owner of the house that he was awake. 

"You're alive!" A female voice exclaimed with excitement as she rushed towards him. Above his face appeared an unknown woman. She had green eyes and her hair was long, a vibrant pink color. She wore big round golden glasses while on her neck she had a silver tattoo of twisting vines that traveled all the way down her right arm and hand. She had a very cute face, with round big eyes and a very honest smile. She clapped, as she watched Allias blink a few times. "Good, good. For a second I thought that the cream I put on you killed you. You see it was a bit of an experiment and I…" 

"Who are you?" Allias asked her, his voice hoarse. The woman stopped talking and smiled before she rushed off somewhere again and appeared with a glass of water. She left it on the nightstand right next to the bed and moved closer to Allias. 

"Want me to help you get up? So we can talk? I won't touch you if you don't want me to." 

"Please do." he told her, feeling completely helpless laying on the bed like that. She smiled and gently helped the king sit up, placing the soft pillow behind his back and offering a full view of the room and herself. 

It was pretty much like what he had assumed in his head. A small fireplace with a huge black steaming cauldron, a wooden table in the middle with two matching chairs and a vase with lilies on top. There was a tiny kitchen and a small door that probably led to a bathroom while on one of the walls stood a very old bookcase filled to the brim with heavy books in many different colors. There were shelves above the small kitchen, with vases and plants with wide green leaves and small flowers, yellow, red, blue. While on others stood a lot of small bottles, empty or filled, with labels and all kinds of shapes.  The king then looked at the unfamiliar woman, she was really short, probably that's why her bed didn't fit him. Dressed  in a short purple dress that had many flower designs on it, the sleeves covering her arms till her elbows. She was barefoot while the tattoo he had noticed continued all the way down to her right leg. What surprised him the most though was that she had wings. 

Yes, wings. A pair of see through, mint colored wings in the shape of that of a butterfly stuck on her back. 

"You're a fairy?" he asked, surprised and she nodded.

"What is a fairy doing here?"

"I am a traveling fairy! I travel all around the kingdoms in search of medicine. I am a doctor." she said. "My name is Naila." 

"I'm…" Allias said, meaning to introduce himself but he stopped. There were people out there searching for him, offering a lot of money to the one who would hand him in, he was sure of it. Telling her his name was not the brightest idea, he thought. "Alex. I am Alex." she said.    "Thank you for your help."

"Oh, don't thank me yet!" she said happily. "I have kind of thought of a way to heal your wounds but my dear elf there is a bigger problem." she said and Allias stared at her with a frown. 

"What do you mean?" 

"Well, when I found you, you were badly hurt. I could see that you obviously had gone through something similar again, missing hand and scars and all but this time there is something...a bit different that is happening here."

"Which is?" 

"Your head, Alex. It's bleeding from the inside."

"What do you mean it's bleeding? I am fine aren't I? Also...I am an elf, why is it not healing?" he asked, filled with confusion and worry. 

"You are fine because I made you drink a potion while you were sleeping. It slows down the bleeding. Probably while you fainted you hit your head. Your body is filled with spider lily poison and extracting it needs powerful healing magic. I brought you here and waited for you to wake up but I am sorry, I don't know what else I can do."

"So you're telling me that I will die soon. From brain hemorrhage."

"Yes. You really haven't been taking care of your body have you? I don't know what you've been doing but...do you even care about yourself at all?"

"I…"

"Even for immortals, the body weakens and the soul if you don't treat them right." 

"How long do I have?" He asked her while he tried not to cry. 

"I have been working on something. Maybe…"

"You think it will heal me?" 

"I don't really know. It's still in the testing phase and the side effects could be…"

"Naila." Allias said. "I have someone to go back to, I need to live." 

"I...I can try. It's a doctor's duty to help people in need. I will start tomorrow and do as fast as I can. You have been sleeping for a week though, you must be starving." she told him and he stared at her with wide eyes.

"A week?"

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Always take care of yourselves.