292. Sickness and health, 4

(Rose)

We entered a floating city in the sky.

Truly it's just that the sky snow covers the ground and reflects the buildings like a mirror, sometimes, but just the sky most of the time.

It builds the illusion of a floating city. In ruins like any other, but it still looks amazing.

I gave in to Bleue's supplication, her begging.

There was a tower in this city, a sky scrapper. Only all its stairs were too damaged and packed with rubbish.

So to climb above we followed Bleue's whim, and covered ourselves with the levitation sap.

Once ready, light as feathers for real, we jumped high from the street ground. We flew a few stories upward, found new steps and handles and bounced upward from there again.

It felt amazing, climbing like that, so high and so lightly. Feeling the light on our cheeks, the wind. The heights. It was a delicious time.

After a few minutes, we had reach the panoramic floors of this high tower. An ancient flat penthouse, dried to the sun; but still with an incredible scenery. We stood there together, looking at the sky below and the city. This fantastic landscape spread over the horizon on a few sides. We could see normal land reappear in the distance for the others. The blueish mountains chains, and other ruins.

Odd colours here and there may just be illusions. They still make the world beautiful.

I hold Bleue's hand tightly as I say it. She agrees.

We decided to camp there for the night, to enjoy this incredible scenery longer and on the next morning.

~

Maybe it was a mistake I made? I wouldn't know.

The eels I ate lately, or the sap I covered my skin with? Was there something toxic I didn't notice?

I felt feverish all morning and my hands became shaky.

B - You're looking unusually pale.

Bleue checks my pulse and temperature.

B - Uh oh...

Now I shiver.

I lay on the old sheets of our bed, a little hopeless. I have cold sweats. Bleue looks at the glass ceiling and walls of this room.

B - It should get warm as the sun comes to illuminate this place. I think you shouldn't move too much for now. I'll go look for water and useful things in the building, you stay here and rest, alright Rose?

R - Alright...

She didn't say it, but I understood she's going to look for medicine. We didn't keep much along. And I guess I have a strong fever. I drink a medicinal ink tea for now and try to rest.

It certainly rapidly starts to feel like a fever is burning. My brain feels scrambled before I realise it.

It reminds me of the time right after my resurrection. I couldn't remember a thing nor align two words and thoughts coherently, while my emotions were a random messy mixture.

I have flashes. I shiver and sweat profusely. Some of the stains due to my sweat are coloured. Coloured with more than one hue.

These rainbows begin dancing in my mind. My chain of thoughts is collapsing faster and faster. I end up not remembering what I was thinking a minute or less ago.

I try to rest but can't sleep.

I feel awful. Too cold and too hot at the same time, I sweat and shiver.

As I wander around this empty room open to the sky, I end up feeling dizzy as if I were on a boat.

I vomit in the dry sink. I see slimy creatures like translucent worms escaping my waste. Eels?

No, I think these things had legs. Many.

Later, it then hurts as well when I urinate. Grains of sand come out. I begin to think it's not just a seasonal fever I have caught.

~

Bleue investigated my health situation as best she could.

She managed to find some equipment and not yet rotten medication, and brought back a lot of water.

While the water is boiling, she's examining me more closely from every angle. I don't remember her ever studying medicine or even anatomy, but at the point I'm at, I don't really care. I feel awful.

B - I think your body reached its limits on quite a few battlefields and everything suddenly collapsed.

R - So... I'm dying?

She kisses me as to reassure me.

B - No, you just need rest, washing and a little more vitamins in your diet. You've been eating nothing but meat for weeks now. I'll find something in this tower I'm sure.

R - Thank you...

She takes a lick of my lips and giggles.

B - Time for a good wash. Now strip!

R - ... You're enjoying this... Aren't you?

B - Of course! In more ways than one!

Here goes my pride. Goodbye pride. It was nice knowing ya'.

Bleue helps me wash entirely. Including every nook and cranny, anus and genitalia. Which against my hope and pride was a good idea, because I was beginning to develop infections everywhere. So it was not just her playing with my shame. Rashes had appeared and blisters had begun to swell on those places.

Since I have to stay dry as much as possible, Bleue asked me to stay naked and wipes my sweat regularly. I feel so shameful.

After an awful night, it continues. My hair is falling in knots. My eyes are puffy.

Bleue isn't really sure the medicine she found are the right kind so we keep them for last resort.

The antibiotic creams and the ink do work fast for my skin infections at least.

I vomit a few more living things that morning.

Bleue caught one to examine it.

It doesn't look like anything we've ever encountered, so it's probably the life stage of an unknown parasite from something I've eaten before.

Bleue goes back to explore the building and leaves me to bake under the sun in this greenhouse.

My only duties today are to wipe my sweat to keep myself dry and drink boiled water.

Sounds easy, but it still is a long day.

~