"Please save my child!" The man dropped to his knees, his child wrapped heavily in a blanket.
"Let me check him!" I rushed beside them, opening the blanket to check on him. He was barely five. My heart ached to see such a young boy. I had to save him.
I could feel the eyes on me as I knelt over the child’s fragile body, inspecting the wound. Even if this was a minor case for me, the tension was still weighing down on me. I checked his pulse - weak and faint. He was burning up with a high fever, his skin slick with sweat, and his breath shallow. The infection had spread dangerously close to his eye, a gruesome sight of swelling and redness, affecting his vital energy. I had to act fast. His fever alone was enough to kill him if we didn’t act fast.
I glanced at Theo, the junior healer by
