Chapter 22
Amelia's POV.
“I will be needing some herbs as fast as possible to prepare a portion to stabilize his health as soon as possible,” I said to Luna, Bella,, and Damien after observing Alpha Dorovan's body.
“What are the herbs? We would set out to get them ready for you” Luna Bella said.
“I will need Tamarind indica, Coriander seeds, and some Blue Pea flowers. They are the only herbs that can help fight the disease and stabilize his health.” I said to her.
“That's a rare kind of herb” Freya snapped, rolling her eyes.
“That's right, Maya, the herbs you had just mentioned are rare types of herbs, and I don't think we would have them in this pack,” Bella added, the confusion in her mind very much visibly on her face.
I know they were right, I know the herbs are not the common type, but that was just the herb that could help Dorovan in his predicament.
“I know they are a rare kind of herbs but that is what we would be needing for the treatment. There has to be a way to get them; those are the herbs that can cure the king.” I said to her, ignoring Freya's immature behavior.
“How do we get them and where can we get them?” Damien, who had been quiet all this while, asked.
Damien's question sounded more like that of a senseless man to me. I wondered why he would ask me where to get the herbs they were meant to make available for me.
I'm just a healer who is invited for help, not their herb keeper, and as such, they should know that before inviting a healer, they should be capable and provide every necessary item the healer would demand at the cause of her work.
I knew where the herbs I could ask Damien and Luna Bella to get were located. It is still around this pack, and I know they can't get it if they should make a proper search for it; besides, I want to get the herbs myself. I knew it was only a witch that could be able to get herb, but I just wanted to know if they would make an effort to get the herb first.
“I do not know, you should search for that,” I replied, moving my attention to Luna Bella, who had asked me another question almost immediately.
“What exactly is the cause of this deadly illness that had befall the Alpha?” Bella asked, wearing a look of concern.
“He seemed to have been under a powerful spell. I saw a dark cloud that sucks into his pulse. Such a thing can only be possible through dark magic.” I stated.
“Are you suggesting that the illness was inflicted on him by someone?” Damien asked in urgency.
“That is what I could sense. The disease is one of the deadliest I have ever seen. It seemss to have come from an evil source, black magic, and we need to do something very fast about it if he must survive this,s,” I explained to Bella.
“I will need to work on his work on the Alpha's health for two months, and the herbs for the portions that will be provided should be enough for the two months. The treatment will commence once the herbs are read. The Alpha's health is in a very bad state now, and he has not much time left; the earlier the herbs are provided, the closer we get to saving him. Also, find out who this Alpha offended; this illness cast out of anger; it will help in alleviating the pain of the illness on him”. I explained to them.
They stared at each other before returning their gaze to me. I wondered what it could be that was making them that way. Just when I was about to ask what the matter was, Damien finally spoke up.
“I have searched for the person behind the Alpha's predicament, but there is no trace of anyone whom the Alpha could have offended,d,” Damien stated.
“Yes, Maya, the Alpha is innocent of this suffering he is going through,” Bella added. “But who could possess such a power of black magic?” Bella asked, feigning curiosity as a means of covering up.
I stared at them for a moment without any response; They were both looking like people who had some dead secrets at the back of their minds. My gaze on them seemed to have made them uncomfortable, they snuff silently and stared at each other as they tried to maintain their stances. I knew at that instance that they were lying, they didn't search for anyone.
It was becoming obvious to me that they didn't even want the Alpha to survive the illness; they both wanted his de, ad, and I was not surprised; I had always sensed it from their pretentious attitudes, but I didn't want to take it up.
‘You searched my foot, only if people know what you both are up to,’ I scoffed inwardly.
I thought of what could be happening but couldn't decipher where it could be coming from. Who could have invoked such dark energy on Donovan, and what Donovan must have done to the person to attract such a punishment? Such black magic can only be pulled by a witch or a powerful wizard.
‘Could it be that there are still witches undercover in this pack?’ I thought to myself. I dismissed the thought, refocusing my attention on Dorovan. Perhaps, I will get to find that out sooner or later.
“Well, we will do our best to get the herbs; please do your best to keep him safe,” Damien said and I nodded.
I already know that all their pretentious attitudes were just to keep rumors away. However, I didn't want to plunder into that since I was just the treatment I would be giving to Donovan as a means of getting my revenge. Now that had set a space of two months to get the disease cured, I have to set my plans well and work accordingly to ensure a smooth victory at the end.
“I think the Alpha's bad health could be caused by some evil witches, you all know what witches could do and their evil nature. We know that those people could be so wicked and could inflict any form of illness on their rivals. I despise them because of their disgusting nature” Freya scoffed
I glared at her with so much disdain, things that she did to me in the past resurfacing in my mind. I knew she was indirectly throwing words at me, knowing very much that I possess witchery power, Freya used the Alpha's health to troll me, accusing witches of having an evil nature. Her words got to me; it made me furious; I couldn't possibly let her go with that word.
I decided to ask her what she meant by those words and if they were for me or something, but I did it indirectly so she wouldn't feel like she had done something that truly got to me.
“If you say witches are disgusting, does that also imply that I am also disgusting?” I asked, trying so hard to subdue the anger that was boiling up in my mind.
“I didn't refer to you when I made the statement; I was only saying that witches could be the cause of the Alpha's condition, and you know that,” she snapped.
“Freya stop that madness!” Damien yelled.
“What crime did I commit by making a suggestion” Freya snapped back.
“Will you shut your trap, Freya? You are not supposed to talk to your Alpha in such a manner, and you have no right to talk to Maya in such a manner. Do not ever make reference to witches in that manner; you have no right to do that,” Luna Bella scolded Freya.