Althea's Words (VII)

She was not the same anymore, 

The bluish cure was circling around her veins, 

The core of the curse could not be predicted, 

It was only a matter of time before everything falls apart. 

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THE YEAR 1904, a century away from the present time. 

The court ladies were trying to take that time to test whether they were still breathing alive. One of them was checking through the hole of their naris. Althea looked at Xioajun and Lei Jie's bluish lips. It was the same lips that she had attained last night. 

The power that the azure light was creeping up on her, but yet, she was not fully functional of it. How could she heal them in just a minute? Althea saw how the cold sweat was forming on the philtrum of their lips, how rigid their bodies were, and how it was still.