"You should be feeling better in a couple of days. Just try not to over due it."
"Thank you so much Lady Eshe. You are the best healer in this country." The elderly man said, "I wish you stay here in this town."
"I am sorry but I must go where I am needed and my work is finished. Now stop worrying about me and you get better." The woman named Eshe said before leaving.
"Lady Eshe!" A young boy said running to her.
"What is it?" She asked the little boy with curiosity.
"I person told me to give you this and left before I can ask who he was." The boy said to her.
Eshe took the scroll from him and saw that there was a royal seal on it.
"This can not be good." Eshe said her self as she broke the seal to look at the contents.
Lady Eshe,
We are in need of your service. The king has been stricken with some kind of illness and the healers here can not figure out what it is the ails him. We request that you come immediately.
Imhotep
"Leave it to Imhotep to find where I am." Eshe said as she took off.
"Wait lady Eshe what is wrong?" The boy asked.
"I am needed in the capital urgently. Can you get my camel ready?"
"Of course." The boy quickly before running off.
Eshe smiled as she neared a group of little kids playing with an albino snake.
"Sorry kids but I need Halima back. We have to leave earlier than expected." Eshe said to the group with a smile.
"Aww, but we wanna play with him a little longer." A little girl whined.
"Next time I am here I will let you play with Halima." Eshe said as the snake slithered up her arm from the child that was holding him.
The snake flicked its tongue on her cheek to show its affection.
"Lady Eshe. I brought you camel and I also filled your water skin as well." The boy from earlier said as he walked the camel over to Eshe.
"Thank you so much." Eshe said mounting the camel with Halima curled her neck.
"Thank you everyone." Eshe said before having her camel leave the town.
As soon as they were well out of the town was when the camel went into a run.
"Lady Eshe!" A person yelled her name as she handed one of the stable people the reins of her camel as dismounted.
"Imhotep, it is a wonder how you were able to find me." Eshe said with a small smile.
"Yes well I heard rumors of a blue eyed white haired woman going north and that was the only closet town I could think of. It is a miracle I was right." Imhotep explained.
"What has happened?" Eshe asked as they went inside.
"We do not know. Two days ago he simply collapsed without warning. The healers tried to use magic to heal whatever ailed him and have been unsuccessful. I thought it would be a good idea to have you come with your medical knowledge and your past with the royal family. Though none of the other advisors or healer know you are here so please forgive any hate they show against you." Imhotep explained as they neared the heart of the palace.
"I forgive all those who are closed minded. I no longer let anyone who look down upon me because of my abnormal eye color." Eshe said with a smile.
"I know but I know how people were to you when you were little before your father passed on from this world." Imhotep told her.
"And you have been a great friend."
They both came to a door and Imhotep knocked lightly before the two of them entered.
"Ah Imhotep…. what is this woman doing here?" A man said.
"This is Lady Eshe, Daughter to the late advisor Madu. She is a well-known healer to many people of this country. I have brought her here to heal our king from what ails him." Imhotep said.
The man just stared at her until he left the room.
"That is the Head healer, Kamuzu. This way Eshe." Imhotep said leading her through another door.
They were both greeted with another person but some who recognized her.
"Eshe? Praise the gods. I am so glad you are here." The advisor said.
"It is good to see you Mahado. Though I wish it was under better circumstances."
"Ah yes indeed. This way."
"He is running a low fever." Eshe said withdrawing her hand from the King's forehead, "Has he been stressed out about anything recently?"
"The only thing I could think of was this fight that he and Sharrkan had. It got so bad that Sharrkan left the palace and everything behind and went to another country to serve. That was a few weeks ago and then after Sharrkan departure, He started to eat less, sleep less and then finally collapsed." Mahado explained.
"I think he is suffering from the traumatic events of whatever happened between him and Sharrkan. The stress from that and running this country finally took its toll on him. Right now, the best thing to do is to let him rest and make sure his fever doesn't rise." Eshe told Mahado.
"Is that why the magical healers could not do anything?" Mahado asked.
"Yes. This is not physical wounds, this is mental wounds which has caused he health to go down. He just needs plenty of rest and when he awakes we need to make sure he eats." Eshe said.
"So he will recover?" Mahado asks.
She nods with a smile.
"What a relief." Mahado says with a sigh of relief.
"If you don't mind. I would like to stay and make sure he fully recovers if that is okay you with you and the healers."
"You can stay as long as you like. You have been missed since you left on your journey and I do believe you being back will bring great solace to our king." Mahado said before leaving.
Eshe watched Mahado leave, closing the door behind him.
"When I told years ago that I would return when you needed me most, I did not imagine this."
Author's Notes:
Yea sooo, this has popped in my head ever since Armakan appeared in the anime. I know that if you have been reading Songstress of the Seven Seas may be wonder what is happening with that story. I am working on it. Some writers block and seeing what direction the manga is going is what is going on. I am at a crossroad with that story that I could go either way on it.
So I started this story so by some time. There will probably be a crossover where my main OC from Songstress of the Seven Seas will appear.
Anyways here is chapter one of this story.
