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Her pleasant musings were interrupted by Kady who plunged into the kitchen
with a worried look on her face.
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"Cahira, come quick! Ramsey's forehead is hot as an oven.
I've done everything I could think of and it's not working.
Erskine's with him."
Cahira came to her feet fast, pushed past Kady, and ran for the infirmary with
Kady close behind her.
Finn had the bed closest to the door and he sat up as they came inside. Kady
saw that and veered to his side, shoved pillows to his back and headed for
Ramsey.
Ramsey lay shivering and coated in cold sweat although his eyes were bright
with fever and his face flushed. The whites of his eyes had a yellow cast that
bothered Cahira even more than the rest of the symptoms.
Erskine sat beside the bed on the far side, gripping
Ramsey's hand, squeezing and rubbing the back of it from time to time.
Cahira slipped into a chair, grasped Ramsey's clammy wrist, closed her eyes to
concentrate and Read him. The color fled from her face, a wan, sad smile
spread across her lips.
"I'm sorry, Ramsey. I'm so sorry."
"How bad?" Ramsey's voice was hoarse and rasping.
"Cahira ... how bad?"
She dropped her gaze and stared off at the edge of the bed, mastered her
reticence and looked him in the eyes.
"Gangrene. The internal kind. It's spread all through you."
Ramsey's eyes hooded until only a slit showed as he digested his death
sentence. "How much ... time do I ...
have?"
"A few days."
"I want ... talk to Kynyr."
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"What about your family? Are they coming?"
Ramsey swallowed, and glanced at Erskine. "No."
"Do you want to see them?" Cahira asked in the kindest tone she had.
"I'd like to ... see Ma ... again."
Cahira pinned Erskine with a glance. "Who talked to them?"
"I did. Ramsey's asshole brother won't let them come."
"Erskine, you go right now and tell Aisha about Ramsey's condition and his
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family. Tell her that he wants to see his mother. If I know Aisha, she'll have
them here before sundown."
Erskine looked discomfited. "Mind if I say you sent me to her?"
"Tell Aisha anything you like. Tell her to talk to me if she has a problem."
"Will do." Erskine squeezed Ramsey's shoulder. "I'll be back in a bit,
brother."
Erskine strode from the infirmary and closed the door behind him.
Cahira turned to Kady next. "Four fingers of Pollendine as needed, but no more
than once every two hours. Three fingers of Holadil increase to four times a
day."
Kady filled the dosing glasses and helped Ramsey to sit long enough to drink
them down. Then she lowered him to the bed.
Cahira rose and gestured for Kady to follow her out into the hall.
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"Tell Todd he needs to sit with Ramsey, then take Rory and go to Claw. Ask him
to release several of Ramsey's friends from duty to sit the death watch."
Kady nodded, blinking back tears, and left.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
WOES
A pall had settled over the household with the diagnosis of gangrene in
Ramsey. At Todd's insistence, Kynyr was not told about it while they waited to
see if Aisha managed to persuade Ramsey's mother to come visit him. Robert
Morcar and Erskine Faraday arrived an hour after the shop opened for business,
and went directly up to the infirmary to sit with
Ramsey. All day long, Ramsey's friends among the guardsmyn came and went,
never leaving him alone.
Someone was always there in case he needed more pollendine for pain, or a
shared remembrance for comfort.
Aisha must have set out immediately for Blue Rock, because the big carriage
that Claw had given her for their last anniversary came rolling up to the
front of Cahira's shop late in the afternoon. Cahira rose from her table when
she saw it through the window.
The driver proved to be Georgie Rogan, whom Cahira had only met once. Georgie
went around, opened the carriage door, and helped Aisha down. A grey haired
bitch with a worn face, dressed in simple homespun robes climbed out after
Aisha and they came into the shop together.
"Cahira Sinclair, I would like you meet Glenna Fitzgerald, Ramsey's mother."
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"Nice to meet you." Glenna sounded bewildered and overwhelmed, uncertain of
what to say. She stood wringing her hands nervously. Her eyes were puffy and
red.
Cahira hugged her. "I'm so sorry about your son."
Glenna dissolved into tears. "Ramsey was such a good cub..."
"Let's go upstairs. He's been asking for you." Cahira put her arm around
Glenna's shoulder and turned to Aisha. "I'll be right back. I think we should
talk."
Aisha nodded. "I think so too."
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Cahira took Glenna upstairs. The folding screen had been extended, blocking
the view of Ramsey from the rest of the room. Finn slept quietly on his bed, a
dose of poppy milk having put him under.
They stepped beyond the screen. Erskine and Morcar sat by the bed. Glenna let
out a small worried noise and went to
Ramsey's side.
Erskine's eyes widened briefly when he saw Glenna. He took hold of Robert's
arm and edged him away from the bed.
"Let's leave them alone."
Robert looked dubious and curious, but went with Erskine.
"Who is she?"
"His mother."
Glenna kissed Ramsey's forehead, and his eyes fluttered open. "Ma?"
"I'm here and I'm not leaving." She bent over him and kissed his cheek.
Cahira withdrew from the room and headed down to the shop where Aisha waited
for her. On returning to the front
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