The Royal Mark-Chapter 277: Mee’s Lines
Elsa went to Neia’s room and found the young princess sleeping and by her side was Stefan.
"Hi, I’m sorry I didn’t know that you were here. I just need to check her before I operate on Chris," Elsa said to Stefan.
"That’s okay. I do not leave her side since she’s unstable. Sometimes she wakes up not herself and sometimes she’s calm," he replied.
"I see. I will see what I can do later, I just need to heal Chris’ wounds first."
"Of course, that’s more urgent. Please do what you need to do."
Elsa nodded and reached for Neia’s hands. She thoroughly checked her palms, fingers, and nails.
"Hmm looks like her nails got broken when she used her claws to attack Chris. It could also be that she was poisoned by the witch queen as part of her experiment." She then signaled for Stefan to come closer and he did.
"Look at the lines on her nails. In Novus, we call it Mee’s lines, this indicates that a person is suffering from heavy metal poisoning. And I think I already know what is causing it since there are only a few things that could poison a werewolf.
I just don’t know why the witch queen did this and what is the experiment she was doing on Neia and Laureen. If only I knew it, maybe we could still reverse it," Elsa explained.
"Chris and Andrius ordered some mages and priests to search the belongings of Yvonne to see if there’s something that could help Neia and Laureen. Elandir is currently overseeing the search. Good thing the new witch queen is very cooperative and is even willing to help in the search," Stefan remarked.
"How did Elandir even know who should be the next witch queen?" Elsa asked as she extracted blood from Neia.
"He said it was some prophecy. I don’t know the exact details but that woman helped us a lot. Her values in life also differ greatly from Yvonne and we all strongly believe that she will be able to reform Saldivar. Hopefully, she will be able to make that nation great once again."
"I hope so. I don’t want to experience another war again ever in my entire life, especially now that I have a son. I don’t want him to live in fear and sadness... Alright, I am done here. Thank you for taking care of Neia. I haven’t really met her formally yet but I know how important she is to Chris. I promise to focus on her as soon as I am done with my husband."
"Will look forward to that, Queen Elsa," Stefan said as he bowed and placed a customary kiss on the back of Elsa’s hand before Elsa went out.
’Lexi, where are you?’ Elsa uttered in her mind link.
’I am with Baahu, Luna. Rylie and Kaizer are with us too,’ Lexi replied.
’Great! Tell Rylie to grab the healers who assisted me when Chris got hurt before. They should get ready for an operation, we will use the infirmary. I need you to get at least two alphas to absorb the pain from Chris while I am extracting the nails of Neia from him,’ Elsa instructed.
’Nails of the princess?’ Lexi questioned in confusion. She was not sure if she heard it right or not.
’Yes, her nails broke when she attacked Chris and that’s what probably got buried inside Chris’ wounds that’s why the bleeding was not stopping. Please hurry, I promised Chris and Stefan to help in finding a cure for Neia once the operation is done.’
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Everyone moved fast and they were able to prepare both the infirmary and Chris in no time. As suspected, Elsa was able to retrieve the part of Neia’s nails inside Chris and it was in a bigger form since Neia was in the process of shifting when it happened.
"Lexi, please put those nails into the solution that I prepared. Wait for it to change color while I close up Chris’ wounds. I suspect that this wound won’t heal normally," Elsa ordered.
After some time Lexi gasped loudly while Elsa was still finishing on Chris. His wounds were quite big and required a lot of stitches.
"What’s happening Lexi? Talk to me," Elsa said without looking at Lexi as she focused on her task.
"The liquid! Luna, it changed color!" Lexi said, astonished.
"What color?" Elsa questioned.
"It’s blue..."
"Alright, get the nails and put it in the other container."
Lexi did and after a few seconds she said, "The liquid turned to green, My Queen."
"Hmm. That bitch really took advantage of studying science in Novus. She mixed, silver, mercury, and lead. I don’t know how Neia is still alive until now but those will kill her. It must be extracted from her blood as soon as possible," Elsa explained before saying, "Cut."
Rylie was the one assisting Elsa, so she used the scissors and cut the thread that Elsa used to stitch Chris’ wounds together.
"Your King will be fine. But I cannot guarantee how Neia will be now that Yvonne is gone. I guess she also uses some spells and modern medicine on Neia to keep her alive and not die on the poison that she’s injecting. Chris should wake up in an hour or so, have someone stay with him, while I go look for my son," Elsa told Lexi.
"My Queen, King Allister requests your presence in the drawing room as soon as you finish your operation. The whole family is there. They will make the announcement about Queen Irina," Rylie said.
Elsa sighed, "I really don’t want to be there during that sad announcement, but I guess I have no choice, huh?"
Elsa immediately washed her hands and removed the apron that she was wearing during the operation and went to the drawing room.
However, when she arrived there, everyone was already emotional. Milda is crying and hugging Andrius. Drake was being comforted by Arla while sobbing as well. The first thing that she did was to look for her son Rocco.
"Your son is with Baahu and Kaizer. I thought that he shouldn’t see this scene since it might make him cry," Valeria whispered to Elsa upon seeing her worry when she didn’t see her son inside.
"My poor mother, she died while being exiled, she didn’t even die in her own land," Milda exclaimed.
"Even though your mother was exiled, I am willing to give her the royal burial she deserved," King Allister announced, causing everyone to turn their heads to him and his children even stopped crying at how astonished they were at his declaration.
