Teleporter (a Hyllis family story #2) by Dahners Laurence

Author:Dahners, Laurence [Dahners, Laurence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-15T08:00:00+00:00

Mr. Prichard arrived an hour or so later, when Mrs. Prichard was quite bleary from the poppy seed tea. He had apparently been stomping around the caravan looking for her and Mrs. Rose had pointed him in the right direction. “What the hell is going on here?! I hear my sick wife is out here waiting for some charlatan to wave a magic rattle and make her better?”

Looking tense, Eva nonetheless calmly waved toward the trailer, “Yes Mr. Prichard, she’s right over here. She came out hoping we could do something for the pain she’s having in her abdomen.”

“She’s had those stomach cramps lots of times. She always gets better and she will this time too.”

“It’s never lasted for an entire day before though, has it? She’s got a gallstone blocking her bile duct and it’s making her very ill. The other episodes were probably also from gallstones, but they were smaller and passed on their own.”

“That’s bullshit! You can’t possibly know what kind of stones she has inside of her!”

Eva shrugged and spoke quietly, “This is my business. I can and I do know what kind of stones she has and what kind of trouble they are causing. I think that I can make her better and that if she doesn’t get treatment she’s going to become sicker and sicker. She might even die…” Eva stared him in the eye, “If she doesn’t get better from our treatment, you don’t need to pay us. We don’t charge if we can’t help someone.” Eva looked at Daussie and then flicked her eyes at the tent, hoping Daussie would understand that she wanted her to wake Tarc up.

Fortunately, Daussie only blinked once then got it. She turned, bent and climbed into the tent.

Prichard stepped to his wife’s side, staring at her slack face, “What have you done to her?!”

“Given her some poppy seed tea to ease the pain. Both the pain she was having and the pain she’ll have when we move the stone.”

“Well, you’d better not have given her too much. You’re right that I won’t pay you if she doesn’t get better, but if she dies of an overdose of poppy seed, I’ll be back with my sword!” He bent over his wife and slid a meaty arm behind her shoulders, starting to sit her up.

“Wait!” Eva said, “We haven’t moved the stone yet!”

“Well, if you’re going to do it, you’d better hurry. I’m taking the poor woman home!”

“Lay her back down for another moment, ‘til we get it done.”

“No! Shake your rattles and kill your chickens while I’m getting her to her feet here. Have done with it without slowing me down or don’t do it at all.”

Eva reached out and kicked the side of the tent, hoping that Daussie had Tarc awake and he could hear what was going on. A moment later, Mrs. Prichard shrieked and doubled over grasping at her abdomen.

Panicked, Prichard laid his wife back down and knelt beside her, “What happened?”

Eva thought to herself that the man, irritating as he was, obviously loved his wife.

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