It's a joke right?

-Excuse me but ... the child is already stable, you can even take him home, you should not worry he will be fine from now on, leaving him hospitalized is unnecessary because he would be occupying a bed that someone else needs-

-....-

-Do you hear me ... hello? -

-If I hear it, it's just that ...- Ray was still lost in thought and sounded nervous

- What did the child have that made him vomit blood and have a fever like that? - Pretending ignorance and making excuses, he asked the doctor for explanations.

-The blood thing I would not know how to explain, we did X-rays, and other studies but we did not find anything in the lungs or other organs, the child is completely fine on that side. It is an atypical case, if I told you that it is wrong I would be lying to you sir, the little one has absolutely nothing except the fever that is due to ...-

-Why? What does my son have?

-Ah that, well sometimes fever is common when you have mumps, the immune system is defending itself against the virus that's all-

-Mumps? ... Are you telling me that he is completely fine except for the mumps ... this whole trip was ... for a simple mumps ?! Heh! - Ray was stunned, the situation became implausible from one moment to another.

He rushed to the floor and laughed, but laughed at the absurd attitude he held all the time thinking that the worst could happen to the child. He did not expect it to be something as vain as mumps and that blood was the least of it.

**

They got home around midnight and Meraki was still asleep, he changed his clothes to leave him in bed resting, covering him with a light blanket. Ray sighed at his demeanor but this situation put him on alert. That the child fell ill was a bad sign, it meant that he was like an ordinary child at the mercy of the hostile environment outside. He wasn't going to let anything extreme happen to him from now on. If what he saw in Fersa's head, left him vomiting blood and with such a high fever and subsequent mumps, he didn't want to imagine what would happen to him if he had to face Espin's thoughts or even worse Sophia's.

[Damn, what am I supposed to do. I never had to take care of anyone but me ... and that stupid notebook doesn't have a damn thing written on it in these cases, arhgggggggggg !!!!!!!!]

He decided to stop getting angry, he preferred to keep it in the past and dedicate himself to the now. I pull up a chair and prepare bottles of water and cold compresses to put on the forehead and the swollen areas of the child's face to ease the fever and inflammation. He planned to stay by Meraki's side all night in case he woke up thirsty or his fever rose, he would give him the prescribed anti-thermic and anti-inflammatory in case of any eventuality.

He had fallen asleep in the chair as soon as he was off guard.

**

-Father-

Ray woke up suddenly when he heard the voice of the boy who seemed to be better and with a face as if he wanted to say something to him. He decided to sit next to him on the bed.

-Drink a little you must have a dry throat- saying that, he take his temperature and the fever seemed to have eased but he wanted to be sure and brought him the medicines.

-Take these are for the fever, does something hurt? -

-Just my throat, the rest no longer hurts ... but dad, there's something I have to show you-

-No. You will stay in bed resting for a week ... better a month I'm not going to risk you-

-But we can't wait, there was someone else there, I don't know what it was and it was eating .... ahhh !! -

The boy burst into tears trying to put his memories into words. Ray hugged him tight and stroked his back to calm him down.

-What the fuck did you see-

Snob

-You have to see it because I don't know what it was, I was very scared-

-What do I have to see, tell me where it is and I'll check it-

-It's a terrifying memory .... I have to show you-

Ray went hard and his eyes went black as Meraki hugged him tighter. He was using his power to share the disturbing visions he collected from Fersa. He had obtained this new ability while unconscious.

He was in a world with a starry and silent sky when he saw an ethereal figure radiating a warm glow. A serene-looking being, without a visible nose and mouth, walked among the stars and spoke telepathycally. The entity was reassuring him and he seemed happy to be able to help the boy, they chatted a bit and he had learned a lot about his power in such a short time. Before firing him, the entity told him that unimaginable gifts awaited him as he was the only and last of his kind in that world. Meraki felt something familiar in the entity and the need arose to stay there and continue asking but he could not, he had to return to his father who would be worried if he did not wake up.

**

The images that were being processed in Ray's mind ranged from the beginning in Fersa's life to the last thing he said to him before running off with the child in his arms.

Of all that he saw, some scenes in particular dislocated him and he felt like killing the bastard Fersa again. Not only was this being controlled by Sophia but there was someone else behind the scenes using him as a puppet. The latter was the one who asked that his daughter Rebecca be presented as a tribute.

Ray saw everything from Fersa's perspective and he could feel a force pressing on him from deep within his being and preventing him from getting in the way, making it difficult to breathe. The rational mind had been extinguished in Fersa and it was only an empty shell at the disposal of the thing standing by its side and the hooded entourage that accompanied it.

The thing approached the girl and she rose into the air, taking her with its grotesque blood red claws that seemed bony and metallic. From the hand of this kind of creature, a tongue that looked like a toothy worm emerged and began to eat the essence of the girl. When he finished with her, he threw her to his subjects to do whatever they wanted with the poor girl.

The creature moved towards Fersa and with an overlapping voice congratulated him on the gift and told him that when he needed a similar one, he would come to him. Fersa was more than willing and withdrew. When he came out of the basement, he walked through a narrow corridor, the vision clouded making it difficult to know the location and as if nothing became clear again, now he was in the stables and had forgotten what he was doing, he returned to the castle missed from the place in where it was.