The Princess by Andrea Ring

Author:Andrea Ring
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

XL. NILARUNA

I cock my head at Healer Wadee. “Saphala is ill? Is it serious?”

“Not in the long term,” he says. “She just needs her rest. She may be in bed for a few days.”

“Does that mean she will miss the wedding?”

Wadee nods. “I am sorry, my lady. I know she is your attendant, but what if she’s contagious? The last thing we need is for you to be ill on your wedding day.”

I look at Kai. He shrugs. “How’s my father?” he asks.

“Remarkably well. I believe he is almost fully recovered from his chronic pain. You both may visit him tomorrow.”

“You’ve healed his gout?” I ask. “How?”

“A carefully planned regimen,” Wadee says.

“Wow. What wonderful news.”

“Indeed. Now I must return to Saphala.”

“Wait,” Kai says. “She’s not in her rooms. Where is she?”

“I put her in an empty room near mine,” Wadee says. “I wanted her close to me, and I must stay near the king.”

“Thank you, Wadee,” Kai says. “You may go. Please let us know if anything changes.”

Wadee leaves, and Kai takes me in his arms.

“My father is healed,” he says. “It seems a miracle.”

“Doesn’t it?”

Kai pulls back and looks down at me. “You think it’s untrue?”

“Wadee didn’t lie, if that’s what you’re asking me.”

“Then what?”

“You can’t really heal gout,” I say. “You can manage it, but not cure it. And did you notice he didn’t say anything about gout? He said your father recovered from his pain.”

“And we already suspected that the pain was from something other than gout.”

“Yes.”

“So what?”

I sink down onto a cushion. “I don’t know. But Wadee hasn’t been able to help your father, not really. He’s only been drugging him. How was he cured?”

“Wadee didn’t say cured, did he?

“No,” I say. “You and I made that inference. I guess we won’t know until we speak to your father.”

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