With Hasuh's broken leg, I had to help him around. Thankfully though, he was usually trying to rest up, and to do that he needed to chew some poppy seeds to kill the pain. That aside, I was also working double time to make up for his leave of absense.

I heavily sighed and rubbed my face with my hand. When all this is said and done, I'm going to go comatose.

When I reached Hasuh's room, I wasn't surprised to find him sitting half awake. He was just staring down at his lap with eyes half open. This didn't alarm me because I was sure he just woke up and was trying to get the cobwebs out of his head.

As for the matter of his room, it didn't look too much different from mine. The windows were on the far wall, of course instead of, like mine, to the left. And unlike me, he was a lot more organized. Where I would just leave a bunch of random pieces of paper scattered on my desk with my journal on top, he took the time to slip his notes into the books they went along with. But then again, I also assumed he had less to write due to the fact that he told me to study the same books.

"Hi Hasuh," I greeted, still standing in the door.

He hummed his responce before looking up and casting me a small smile. "Good morning."

I laughed before walking in. "Morning to you, I thought, was before the crack of dawn."

"On the contrary," he mused, "morning is until the sun has reached it's peak. And so is it morning still?"

"If that is your logic," I answered with a grin, "then you'd still be wrong. The sun peaked not too long ago."

He chuckled a little before yawning. "So where were you this time?"

Pretending not to hear him, I glanced at him and gave a small "eh" as a responce. In truth, I preferred to leave my visits to my family out of my work. And it also didn't seem much like it was his business anyways, well besides having to know where I go... okay fine, it is his business...

"Where were you," he asked again. "I heard a couple of the staff outside complain about your absense. They say you walk off somewhere regularly."

Okay, no playing dumb now. I looked down at the toes of my boots and answered, "I have two patients that I've been tending to." Not a total lie, right? I considered my mother and sister to be under my care.

But Hasuh seemed to be hardly convinced. "Who might these two be? And how does that explain you leaving?"

I found myself fittling with the hem of my robes with my thumb and index finger. Nervous habit. "My mother and my little sister, and they didn't come here to be treated."

Now that I had filled him in on that information, he seemed a little more convinced, as he knew by now my habit of not giving a name of someone who I mention if the person was not real. "I see. What seems to be the issue with them?"

"It's that disease going about," I answered. "But I had been giving them medicine and it seemed to be helping greatly."

This surprised him. "But no one had been able to find any sort of medicine for the illness. What did you do?"

"I found some weird bump that they both seemed to have," I explained, "I thought it was just something the illness caused at first, but then I realized that if it was then there would be much more of them. So I took a knife and lightly cut it to find puss. I cleaned it then cauterized the cut so it wouldn't get infected. After that, I gave them some ground ginger to put in their tea for the cramps and nausia."

To this, he seemed a little stunned. I almost wondered if I was the first to come up with this idea. "You wouldn't mind if I saw your mother and sister myself, would you?"

I nodded and handed him his crutch before pulling him up onto his good foot. He had obviously gotten better at going about now, so I only needed to step in when we were going down the stairs. When we reached my family's house, I knocked on the door before opening it.

My brother was at his desk read when I walked in, and he didn't hesitate to look up. "Red? You're back so soon?" His eyebrow lowered, "And whose this?"

I answered casually with, "Yes, brother, I am. My mentor, Hasuh, wanted to see mother and Anna's condition himself."

To this, he scoffed, "I'd hope you pay attention."

"I have been," I claimed when in honesty I had a lot more on my mind. To get out of the long lecture before it could even start, I led Hasuh to the back room where I found my mother and Anna quietly talking. They seemed a little more at ease now. I even took note of the two cups of tea set on the endtable.

Anna grinned, "Hi Red, run into any doors lately?"

Though I reeeeeeally wanted to retort to that, I figured it was best to spar Hasuh the waste of time. "My mentor wanted to see your condition himself."

Thankfully my mother, leaning back a little, was very open to this situation. "It's fine with me. But I don't think you'll find anything of trouble anymore, she already took care of it."

Hasuh nodded and hobbled over to sit on the edge of the bed while he examined my mother first. He tilted down her head to have a better look at her eyes, seeing as most of the patients' eyes were bloodshot. "She told me about an apparent bump."

My mother would have nodded but kept her head still. Instead her hand came to her shoulder, where hers had been. "Yes, and it's sealed closed now."

"May I see?" He requested, and wasn't really refused. Mother turned and allowed him to get a good look at the cauterized skin which remained of my treatment. Hasuh pulled the shoulder of the dress back up before turning to Anna. "And yours, child?"

It was amusing to walk her blue eyes grow wide. "No! Creepy old man!"

By now, I stepped up close to him to explain quietly. "Hers was on her breast." He very curtly nodded in responce to the answer before he very carefully got back up.

"Well, Red, I think that this treatment should be put to the test then," he stated. "Tell the other doctors of this and see if they'll allow you to show them how to handle the illness."

"I shall."