Loki:
I heard a scream, and opened the backroom door to where I was sitting with Reni. I saw Rye on the floor, and Reni shaking her. I ran over.
"What has happened?" I asked.
Reni was making inaudible words, and I bent down. "What happened?"
"I don't know! She was talking about how tired she was and then she said that she was looking for you and I was about to tell her where you were when she just fell out on the floor!"
"She was…looking for me?"
Reni nodded. "She said that she was worried about you, and that she was wrong for what she had said…"
I held up my hand and looked down at her. Her face was crumpled with pain, and her body was radiating tremendous heat.
Reni was yelling for someone to 'get an ambulance.' Rye coughed, and she stopped moving.
"Reni," I had stated. "Reni, she has stopped moving."
Reni's eyes widened. "Where the hell's that ambulance?!"
"Loki?"
I looked up. "Yes?"
Reni and I were sitting in what Reni is repeatedly telling me was a 'waiting room,' or a 'lobby.' A medical Midgardian came to speak with us.
"Is she alright?" Reni asked.
The Midgardian sighed. "No, and I'm glad you got her in here as soon as you did."
"Why, what's wrong?"
"She has pneumonia, and she used to have a blood clot that was blocking blood from getting to her brain, which was why she had fainted in your store, and why she had slept for two days in a row, as you had told me." He looked toward me.
I nodded. "Yes, she slept the entire time. Would this also explain why she has been sleeping so much?"
The medical Midgardian laughed. "No, her sleeping habits are normal." He turned serious. "She was slightly dehydrated, and her body temperature was 103.4 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a serious condition. Why didn't you bring her in sooner?"
"I did not know I was supposed to."
The medical Midgardian gave me a questionable look. Reni spoke up. "He's a little stubborn when It comes to the doctor's office. He doesn't like them, and he thought he could take care of her himself."
I could sense that this was a lie, and nodded.
"You two are…?" The medical Midgardian pointed to myself, then to Reni.
"Oh! No, we're just friends."
"Oh, I see. Well, we removed the clot, and she's out of surgery. You can go see her now. She's still sleeping, and won't wake up for a while, but at least you'll see that she's alright."
Reni nodded. "Great, thanks!" He motioned for me to follow.
We stopped in front of a door, and Reni opened it. Rye was asleep, with something in her arm.
"What are they doing to her?" I asked.
"You're really not from around here, are you?"
"You may say that…"
Reni sighed. "This is helping her body hydrate. I forgot what they really call the stuff, but the doctors aren't doing anything wrong to her."
I didn't believe him, but in this situation, I had no choice on the matter.
I sat down beside Rye.
"She was…looking for me. She was trying to ask for forgiveness… she worried about me…"
Reni pulled a chair over and sat down beside me. "I don't know what the argument was about, but it seemed serious." He sighed. "She's a nice person, and whatever she had said, was probably said out of the emotion of whatever had happened."
"You have only met her once. How could you know these things?"
Reni shrugged. "It's human nature."
Ah, yes. Human nature. I shall never understand it.
There was silence, and Reni fell asleep on the couch. I stayed up for another hour, waiting for Rye to awake.
I have been on Midgard too long, for sleep overcame me, and I was not awake when Rye had awaken.
