Part 7- Snow- and a lot of it
Rena wasn't healing well. Honestly: she wasn't healing at all. I guess I've just been so wrapped up thining about stupis stuff that I forget that my aunt Mei and uncle Al were at the castle. Heck, I forgot I was distantly related to Iaso. Let's see... Mei and Ling are brother and sister, she married Al which makes Al his brother and Ed (dad) too, which makes me and Iaso cousins? Maybe?
After two weeks of her being sick we were all ready to stab her. She slept constantly, waking up occasionally to puke in a bucket, all of it blood, and to say hi to Iaso, Lucky, and I.
A week after her being in a sickroom I saw my cousin (my actual cousin). Marigold had golden eyes and the blackest of hair you could ever see- like coal. Her hair was down and wavy and the first time I saw her she had been sitting with Rena, talking nonstop while Rena started nodding off to sleep.
She sat down a cup next to the sink and continued talking. "Your really sick Rena, you know what, you should probably drink this water so you don't die of dehydration, ok Rena?"
By now Rena was sleeping and didn't seem to notice Marigold, even so the nine year old continued talking,
"I mean, it would be horrible if you dehydrated because then you'd have more problems, and your throat would be all sore and you couldn't talk and you'd feel like a fish out of water and you'd probably die and we'd have to send your dead body back to your mom and dad, is it true your an only child Rena?"
*To readers, from author: when Marigold starts talking, ignore her... or only half listen, she's pretty annoying*
"I'm an only child too! That's so exciting, and do you like snow? I do, I like to go outside while it's snowing here in Xing... even if it's only for a few days. Usually it only snows for two or three days so it's like what is the point of it snowing at all, right? But, the thing is is that when it does snow it's snows like two feet, last year we got snowed in and we had to stay inside for like the whole two days it didn't melt. Do you think that it'll happen again?"
"No," Iaso said shortly, stepping into the room behind me. He dropped a bunch of flowers he had picked with Lucky earlier in the day in a vase on top of a beside table. Lucky sent him a quick smile almost to say: "Thank you, you are like the best brother ever."
Rena cracked open an eye, sitting up and only stopping briefly to vomit into a bucket that Lucky handed her. I hate it when I'm sick. I hate it even more when other people are sick. ecspecially when they're puking up blood.
"Thanks... for shutting the loud one up."
Marigold didn't look the least bit offended. To be honest she looked like she had won a prize. "Well, it should start snowing in about two weeks, I'd suggest covering the garden, or else it might die."
"It won't die," Iaso said sharply, reaching into a dishpan beside Rena's bed and placng it on top of the sick girl's head. "I doubt it will snow this year."
"I wouldn't be so sure pretty boy, you can't tell weather. On top of that I wouldn't really be guessing with so many peoples lifes on the line, now would you?" Marigold smirked, all the joy and talkitive manner gone from her face replaced by a b=violent look. "After all, some things are more than they seem, aren't they Lucky?" Marigold touched a thin chain around Lucky's neck before flouncing out of the room.
"What the was that about?" Iaso said giving a wierd look at Lucky.
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Two weeks after discovering Rena's sickness, it did start to snow. We were all huddled up in Rena's sickroom, Iaso replacing the flowers like he did everyday, everyone except Marigold. When it started snowing she leaped into the room, finger pointing, a green scarf wrapped around her neck, just to scream at Iaso.
"Told you so! Told you so!"
Everyone ignored her. Like they always do.
The snow didn't let up and after two hours Al and Mei came into the room to remove Marigold and take her home. She didn't put up a fight, just allowed them to drag her away. After Rena had fallen asleep again, I looked out the window. I cringed. Eight inches of snow piled in front of the main door, four inches against the window pane, barely able to see.
"Well, this shouuld be fun," Lucky said unhappily. She opened the window a crack, cold wind blowing into the warm room. She closed it with a snap. "And cold."
"Darn Marigold for being right," Iaso said unhappily, sitting down in a chair next to Rena's bed. He opened a drawer and pulled out a piece of paper. "Let's see... Rena's middle name is Jane? She told me it was Livvi!"
"Well, use your brain Iaso, obviously she lied. Why are you looking at her medical records?" Ling said, his arm propped against the doorframe. He had a tendency to just pop out of nowhere, at extremely random times.
He had his hair tied back and had on his regular peasant clothes , as he called them. He wore the peasant clothes whenever he didn't have to wear his emporer robes- which was often.
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Rena suppressed her giggle. Lucky had started chasing Iaso around the large room. We had led Rena out of her sickroom for a the first time in two weeks. After being trapped in the palace for over three days, Lucky apparently had enough of having to continuously talk to Iaso. So when she asked if he wanted to switch it up, he had asked how, and she had pulled out a weapon and attacked him.
She nipped him once or twice with the kunai, never digging in farther than his clothing. After some time she got bored and started painting. She had Iaso 'pose' for her and half an hour later she had a picture of a fish.
"That doesn't look like him." Rena stated, peering at the picture closely then snapping her head up to look at Iaso. "If it is, we have a major problem."
"And what would that be?" Lucky asked, folding her mouth quickly, a smile creeping up on her face.
"Well, if he was a fish, then fish have learned to breathe above water, which means we're in a lot of trouble."
Luckys jaw dropped down, close to her shoulders, I swear, before recovering and saying happily "I suppose, you got me there."
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Author Note: well... I'm bored. Don't really feel like leaving an author note... can't think of anything to say. So... bye!