He burned so hard that his feet were raw. Among the cliffs sought a shadow to check the damage, by a great happiness and luck had one available. The skin was gone, his feet were totally swollen. Zakarias watched the situation and placed his coffin on the floor. From the inside, he took a bottle of mud filled water, picked up some herbs that Rock did not know existed, shook very hard. He asked to show the wounds, threw the mixture into them and it ached fucking. She preferred the scorching floor to this strange mixture, but soon the skin began to recover and during this process Zakarias removed some of her bandages and iron bars. He washed it all with the rest of the mixture, put it in the coffin and sat on it.
- Let's rest?- Rock was surprised by Zakarias' behavior.
- HOh! Pops up! I know you're there! Come treacherous animal, it appears!
Among the curves of the boulders there appeared an outherself with a small girl, who was surely her counterpart, both with hair like Zakarias' straw cigarettes, wearing dirty clothes, but her counterpart had bare feet full of dirt. They approached Zakarias nervously. Something that Rock learned on this trip, nobody dared to face Zakarias. Sometimes from afar, she could see some out-of-herself, all with the urge to fight in her eyes, but none raised the weapon and always went the fastest though. This was the second time someone had approached Zakarias, had no weapons and no body to carry.
- Your Sinhá Zakarias ... I would like you to help me.
- I'm listening. What's your name, girl?
- Severina.- said the girl before her outherself.
- I'm worried about her health, she-
- I saw by far that little pale face, come here girl, I will not bite you
The girl approached slowly, such reluctance was obvious, perhaps heard the song about the name Zakarias, but had the courage to approach. Zakarias checked his eyes, instead of white, were yellowed. Zakarias made a crooked lip, pulled the girl's shirt and pressed very lightly on the child's belly, already realizing that this region was well swollen. The girl gave some whining when the woman sitting in the coffin pressed where her stomach was, put her ear, had a chance, not a certainty, but had a great chance to be.
- That girl has a worm. You're so worried that her stomach is swollen.
- What is your price?
- You know how things work, despite your age in this world, you do not have the empty head ...
Zakarias looked at the outherself of bruised feet and smiled. Rock reaffirmed himself already preparing for the ideas that came from that strange mind.
- Your price is to defeat this girl here behind me.
Rock knew she would be involved in it, it had been a long time since she had wielded her trusty weapons and was not sure if her body was completely healed. Severina took a few steps back and summoned her guns: a sword with a heavy blade having a sharp point in its path, and in the other hand, it looked like a shotgun mixed with a revolver. Already with this for the interpretation of this attitude, comes to give you a spanking. Rock denied all this, she had nothing to do with it.
- Okay, fine leg ... But ... This is my price. If she was defeated, she would die because of her counterpart. This girl is sure to be knocking on my coffin, so whatever ...
The girl seemed not to understand Zakarias's words, not to have the rationale to understand, language barriers, perhaps. This woman is stubborn, Rock thought, if her instincts did not scream to keep her hands inside the coffin. In the midst of this thought, Severina's sword already came staring at the blue-eyed outherself's head. Quickly, Rock made his blade of confidence and with a blow already sent the outherself away.
- Where did your Sinhá get a person from the interior ?!
- Inside, of course.- said Zakarias indifferently.
Severina wasted no time, went directly to the attack, Rock had to be on the defensive, because her arms still rang. Severina's attacks said if you will not fight, I'll force you. They were quick and violent, for a moment, she thought, I'm not fighting a normal or abnormal outherself, but a furious animal, full of fury, this animal wanted to tear it apart, to see its guts out. There was only instinct in that, nothing more, Rock knew that she trusted his instincts, but that will never come something like that. It was hard to find a way to find a foothold in that girl, her body bending and twisting in her movements in an inexplicable, possessed way. Finally getting an opening, in a nimble cut, and half clothes, she tossed Severina away again to take some time to breathe.
But there was no time for that, Severina threw her sword in Rock's direction. Bypass easily. He felt the bullet shave, luckily, on his cheek. Severina fired, Rock diverted the bullet and summoned his weapon that made it worthy of his name. Severina frightened, lost a part of her long hair to divert from a projectile, but did not stop advancing. At that moment, that ammunition ripped off Severina's arm. Her counterpart was desperate, Zakarias just looked.
Severina grabbed what was left of her arm to try not to lose more blood, Rock looked at the younger outherself. She was not going to kill her. There was no reason. The sun began to beat harder on her back, also burned to the wound on his cheek. Severina jumped, grabbed Rock's neck, and tied the rest of her body with her legs. The oxygen was ending, she struggled to get out of that tightness, lung without air, she fought, she squeezed, without air, the colorless face-
- Enough! I spoke in defeat, not in death ... But you did well, Severina ... There is no defeat here, defeat here has another name. The defeat here is death, of those who have no victory against life. You did well, you did well ... Now, let me treat this arm and the other I need.
Rock was stunned, already happened this with her (recently also) of an enemy get up and continue the battle, but soon to fall again. She thought it was just something quick, but it was not, it was a test for this girl. Something in his brain made him understand the logic of it, it was a half-wrong thought, though it was the only thing he could think of. What good is it to cure your counterpart if you die here fast? If her counterpart was older, Zakarias would have put another price, this woman is strange and well-known.
Already bandaged the outherself with one arm for now, Zakarias began to work on the remedy of the human. From that mixture of herbs, barks of plants that came along the way made a bubbling mixture, it made the nausea smell of that boiling pot. Zakarias checked, tasted, spat to the side, took a mug and put the medicine.
- Look, I'm not a minded person. It will not be beautiful, but it is necessary, if you understand child?- Rock did not understand Zakarias's words, obviously they were in another language, at least the child understood. The human swallowed everything with a disgusted face and the effects were swift. The girl vomited, shriveled the worms out of her stomach. Severina held the girl's hand firmly, being her only support. Rock turned his head away from that scene. Zakarias Berdinazzi prepared a mug full of water.
The girl had already calmed down and her hands already had an empty mug of any water. Zakarias began to store his belongings.
- Thank you, really, thank you ...
- Arrange ... If it is possible, ask some relative or a shoe here, it will help this girl a lot.- she said as he lit another straw cigarette.
- I hope, to be alive to thank you again.
- My great-granddaughter will love to meet ...
Severina and her counterpart went away.
As they continued their way to the coast, Rock asked.
- Are all your calls?
- Since I became a healer healer, yes. I made this world know the disease, I corrected it myself, after correcting such evils, I saw that gained a great knowledge on such subjects ... But life here is dry, so my treatments are like the earth.
- You do not have to tell me anything about your life.
- Grumpy, I thought you'd seen guts before.
- That was different ... Could be any counterpart. It could be-
- Even yours. Do not worry, your counterpart has services at your disposal if something happens. Do not worry.
- Who's your" great-granddaughter "?- Rock had already heard the term "granddaughter" because of Mato.
- She's one of the reasons for going to the coast, I'd like to see her before I ... AH! You find out soon enough.
They went on like this, going their way to the coast, cemeteries of only two woods and sick people.
Author's Notes; The reason this chapter took was ... sloth and heat. Seriously, 33C now.