Chapter 888 Regaining Courage(1/2)
(Two chapters in one, updated together today and tomorrow)
Only then did her friend Solandel, who fell on the bed, come back to her senses and murmured: "Lorna."
Ma Ban said helplessly: "Her dragon stays outside the mansion every day, and is very irritable. Every time the attendant comes in and out, there is danger. I heard that another person was injured today. This is not the way to go. You can find time to see her."
Come on, let her stand up early."
After listening to Ma Ban's words, Solandel couldn't help but close her eyes, feeling deep self-blame in her heart.
After the war, Lorna was so shocked by Denisa's death that she cried in front of the grave until she vomited blood and died. She is still paralyzed in bed to this day.
It's not like Solandel didn't want to visit Lorna, but after she took office, the ministers pressed hard step by step, the New Deal was frequently blocked, and endless problems came to her. She had to focus all her energy on official matters and forgot about it for a while.
The sorrow of a friend.
Solandel slept all day and had a lot of things at hand, but she couldn't care about it now. She left the official duties to Mab for the time being, then boarded the carriage and rushed to Lorna's mansion.
As soon as Solandel arrived at the mansion, she saw the attendants whispering outside, and there was also a man whose clothes were covered in blood, and the doctor was bandaging his injured arm.
Seeing Solandel, the attendants all greeted: "Your Majesty."
Solandel asked the injured person with concern: "Are you okay?"
The injured person quickly replied: "Your Majesty, I'm fine, it's just a little flesh wound."
Solandel nodded, told him to rest, and then walked into the courtyard.
There is a huge red dragon tied with a thick iron chain in the courtyard, it is Lorna's Fei Ye.
After not seeing her for several months, Feiye was already as thin as a stick and fell to the ground dying. Her half-closed and half-opened eyes kept blinking, as if they would close completely at any time, but her throat still kept making threatening sounds towards the incoming person, not allowing anyone to
near.
One of the attendants sighed and said: "This dragon is guarded here every day. No one is allowed in, and it is not given anything to eat. The palace veterinarian can only put it down with large doses of sedatives repeatedly every day, and then inject it with nutrient solution."
"
"But this is a dragon after all. What can it do if it doesn't eat? But we have no other choice but to watch it lose weight day by day."
Just as Solandel was about to step forward, the guard stopped her: "Your Majesty, it's dangerous."
"It's okay." Solandel signaled the guards to retreat. She knew that Feiye just didn't know those outsiders and felt that they were going to hurt her master, so she didn't let them get close.
Solandel and Lorna grew up playing together, and she was also the first person to know Feiye. She was very familiar with its temperament and temper. She walked forward cautiously and said softly: "Feiye, it's me. I'm going in to visit."
Nana, please sleep well, I am here."
Feiye had been injected with a large amount of sedatives before, and it was holding on without falling. Now that it saw a familiar person, it couldn't help but relax a little, its eyes finally closed completely, and it breathed evenly.
Solandel entered the mansion and came to the room where Lorna was.
She thought she was ready, but when she saw Lorna's current situation with her own eyes, her heart was shattered instantly.
The last time Solandel saw Lorna was at Denisa's funeral. At that time, she was so sad that she cried until she vomited blood, but she still looked fine, but now she doesn't even look human anymore.
Lorna was seen lying on her back on the bed, her eyes half-open and half-closed, empty and numb. No matter how Solandel called, she just looked at the ceiling without moving at all.
Because she lay down for too long and the attendants sometimes failed to turn over in time, Lorna's body was covered with bedsores and ulcers, her muscles atrophied due to lack of exercise, her limbs were severely edematous, and there was a blood mark when pressed.
Although she was awake, she was completely unconscious. She didn't know how to eat food when it was brought to her mouth. She didn't know how to swallow when water dripped into her mouth. She didn't chew for a long time, which caused her cheeks to collapse and become as thin as a skeleton.
In order to keep her alive, doctors could only inject her with nutrient solution. The blood vessels in her arms had been pricked countless times. They were all deflated and covered with dense needle holes. They were connected to the ulcerated skin, as if they were dead.
The body of an unknown age.
Dinisha's death was a huge blow to Lorna.
To be honest, although Lorna always talked about her mother in the past, the impression of Sula, her biological mother, in her heart was actually very weak.
After all, she was so young when they parted ways that she couldn't even remember her mother's face, and could only recall some fragments of memories.
Many times, the "mother" that Lorna misses so much is just a spiritual symbol, supporting her to keep running on the road of life.
Since living with Dinisa, this symbol is no longer unforgettable because it has been replaced by another more important person. She took over the responsibility from her friend and took care of Sura, who had lacked love since childhood.
Child.
But now, there is nothing.
The person she loved most died for her, and the person she loved most died in her own hands. Lorna's heart completely collapsed, and her entire life was completely destroyed.
In this world, everyone will have a destination, but she no longer has a home.
Looking at Lorna, who was neither a human nor a ghost in front of her, Solandel's vision became blurred, and these tragic images grabbed her heart like devil's claws, tearing out bloody scars.
"Chichi." In front of the attendants, Solandel wanted to maintain her appearance and tried not to cry, but she soon choked due to the suppression, almost suffocating her, causing her to cough and choke, and the cry came out of her throat.
Tears washed down.
It is said that it is difficult to have both the family and the country.
When Solandelle was young, Perseus didn't come home all day long, and she cried because she missed her father. Her mother told her this truth - the king cares about the world and is at home all over the world.
At that time, she was just ignorant and did not have a deep understanding of this sentence.
It wasn't until she became queen that she truly understood its meaning.
I don’t know from which day, her mind was filled with the New Deal, New Deal, New Deal, the people who were hungry and cold, the people who had nothing to rely on, and other things seemed to fade away.
Friends who were once inseparable and stayed with each other day and night suddenly lost contact.
Thinking back to the past, every time she was in a bad mood, Lorna would travel thousands of miles to accompany her. Even when she grew up and had interests entangled, in the face of grievances that spanned more than five hundred years, she still abandoned her family mission, put down everything, and resolutely
Stand behind yourself.
But how did he treat her?
Maybe because we have been together for too long, we are used to it, and we take the kindness of the other person for granted. I have never put my concern for Lorna first.
So much so that she suffered such a huge blow in her life and lay paralyzed in bed in grief and despair for several months. She was still buried in her official duties and hadn't even seen her for such a long time.
For a moment, Solandel even had the urge to stop being the queen! She abdicated directly, took Lorna into seclusion, and spent the rest of her life with her.
But this is just an unrealistic impulse after all. If she really does this, she will betray herself and others. Especially Lorna, who has sacrificed the most for her on this road, will probably be the most disappointed.
Solandel wiped away her tears, stepped forward and put her arm around Lorna's shoulders, shaking her constantly: "Nana, get up and I'll take you out for a walk."
Lorna showed no reaction, and there was not even a spark in her eyes, just like a puppet, letting herself sway.
Lorna's lifeless look was in perfect contrast to her past liveliness, and Solandel's tears flowed down unsatisfactorily: "You have been lying down for several months, how long will you continue to lie down?
Get up!"
Solandel struggled to drag Lorna out of bed, but surprisingly, it was effortless because Lorna had been in bed for a long time and her weight was more than half of her original weight.
However, even though she was dragged out of bed, Lorna remained motionless. She accidentally hit her head on the edge of the bed, blood flowed from half of her face, and she didn't respond. She just paralyzed on the ground lifelessly.
Solandel knew that the huge blow caused Lorna to close her heart and escape from reality to fight the grief. If she could not be awakened from this numbness, she would continue to avoid it and become paralyzed until the day she died.
Sorandel wiped away her tears. In order to reawaken Lorna's concern for reality, she made a determined effort and deliberately emphasized her tone: "Okay, if you want to be paralyzed, then be paralyzed. I won't care about you until you die! But can you?"
Do you care about Feiye?!"
Feiye, the dragon companion who had made a blood oath with Lorna in the dragon house and spent countless lonely years together, finally made her react.
Lorna's unfocused pupils shrank slightly. Although she was still dull, her blinking frequency was faster than before, and she muttered and repeated vague words: "Fei Fei Ye Fei Ye"
Seeing that Lorna finally reacted, Solandel continued to choke and said: "These past few months when you were paralyzed in bed, Feiye has been waiting outside, waiting for you every day and every night."
"Because it can't see you, it's so anxious that it can't eat meat or drink water. The attendants can only use an anesthetic needle to knock it out every day, and then inject nutrient solution. Its body can't hold on anymore, and it won't eat anymore.
He’s going to die!”
"Aren't you its owner?! Isn't it the partner you swore a blood oath to?! You just abandon your partner like this, lie here and collapse, escape, and let it be tortured outside?!"
Lorna's eyes finally regained their radiance and were quietly misted with water. Her limbs were trembling more and more obviously as she tried to stand up.
However, after months of not moving, her muscles atrophied so much that she couldn't stand upright at all, so she could only lie on the ground and crawl out.
Solandel quickly grabbed Lorna's arm and put it around her shoulders, propped her up, and helped her out of the room.
In the courtyard of the mansion, Feiye had fallen asleep under the influence of sedatives, but perhaps sensing the approach of his master, he opened his eyes with difficulty and woke up.
Fei Ye was obviously very weak, but the moment he saw Lorna, his tail that had been hanging down for months suddenly stood up and waved happily in the air. It struggled to move this way, and kept humming in its throat.
The sound is like a coquettish puppy.
Seeing Fei Ye's emaciated appearance, and thinking about how she had been guarding outside regardless of weather conditions for the past few months, Lorna couldn't help but shed tears.
With the help of Solandel, she went over and threw herself into Feiye's arms, hugging his neck tightly: "What are you doing? You don't want to eat. I just slept a little longer. Why are you so stupid?
"
Fei Ye huffed and nuzzled Lorna's head, swung her tail wildly from side to side, and grinned like a silly child laughing.
Finally, the stone in Solandel's heart fell to the ground. She wiped away her tears and asked with concern: "Nana, I haven't eaten for so long. What do you want to eat? I'll have someone cook it for you."
Lorna whimpered, "I want to eat roasted whole beef."
"Okay, okay, no problem." After hearing Lorna directly order the name of the dish, Solandel quickly said to the waiter, "Quickly, inform the chef to cook a roasted whole cow."
The guard said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, we only have cut beef in the library, where can we get roasted whole beef?"
Solandel pushed him: "If you don't have one, go buy one! No matter what, I have to let her eat it. All expenses will be recorded in my personal expenses."
To be continued...