THE ALPHA’S ADDICTION

When Esther and Anthony came back into the house, they saw Alpha Peter sitting on the sofa, hugging Melvina to himself, while Clem and Shane sat on the other sofa, their faces crest fallen. The atmosphere scented of sorrow.

“Good evening Father.” Anthony greeted, and Alpha Peter raised up his head and nodded at him.

“Did you get all that you needed?” Alpha Peter asked him through the mind link, referring actually to the witch that was standing beside him.

“Yes.” He replied through the same communication path, before turning aside to Esther.

“You can get on with the healing process.” He said. “If you need any help, you can call me.” He stated, gesturing with his hands towards Derek, inferring that she should start her work.

Esther nodded at him, before stepping around him and walking toward Derek.

She felt his pulse as she bent down and touched him by the neck. It was barely there. She knew she had to hurry.

Quickly, she asked Anthony to get her two bowls from the kitchen, while she stood up and walked to the library section in the next room closest to the sitting room.

On getting there, she skimmed with her hands on the variety of books lined in the shelf until she located the one that she wanted. She took it out from its position, and opened it.

Yes, it was the one. Her Aunt’s number one healing book.

She just hoped that she had known enough and had amassed enough magik to command whatever spell would be required of her.

“Here.” Anthony said, stretching two plastic bowls to her, as she stepped out from the room.

“Thank you.” She muttered, taking the bowls while hurrying towards Derek who was like a white sheet already.

Esther sat on the floor, and put all the herbs she had gathered into one of the plastic bowls.

She cut with her fingers the leafy plants and squeezed them thoroughly until a dark purplish liquid oozed out of it.

She kept squeezing, until she was sure that the herbs were dry of its liquid ration.

“Get me water and a sieve.” She said to no one in particular, but Shane already on his feet since she had started processing the herbs, walked hurriedly into the kitchen to get her what she had requested for.

And in some seconds, he was back with a cup of water and a sieve. He dropped it on the floor beside her at her request and stepped back, still watching her.

Esther put the sieve over the other bowl which was empty.

And then, she added some quantity of water into the what she had been squeezing. She squeezed some more, then transferred the contents into the bowl with the sieve.

Using her hands, she raked in a circle the herbs, pushing down and squeezing intermittently until the liquid had gone out of them.

After that, she removed the sieve, and gestured to Shane to dispose the contents, and empty the cup of its liquid.

Shane obliged immediately, carrying out her requests, taking the bowl with the sieve and the cup to the kitchen.

He returned the next few seconds with an empty cup, and handed it over to her.

She collected the cup, and transferred the liquid content of the other bowl into it.

Then she opened the book, that she had gone through more than ten times.

She turned and turned the pages, until she arrived at the page which she thought had said something about the particular herb in the cup.

Her guess was right. She had followed through the process rightly.

The only thing left was the spell casting.

Taking in a deep breath, while trying to push away the chants of failure from her mind, she chanted the spell written in the book out loudly, all the time aware that she had the attention of everyone in the room, all the time striving to subdue the accusing voices in her head.

After she had recited the spell three times as was mentioned in the book, she gestured to Shane to come aid her give the medicine to Derek.

When Shane came, she told him to lift up Derek’s head, while she tried forcing the liquid into his mouth.

But before he could do that, Melvina already was on her feet, stepping towards them.

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She watched as the woman lifted up her son, from his head to his waist, and then sat down on the sofa, resting him back, this time, his head laid on her laps.

Then she nodded at her to get on with the process.

Esther, a bit nervous, knelt down beside the sofa and slanted the cup on Derek’s mouth, while Melvina tried to keep his mouth open with her fingers.

But it was not working. His lips were quite stiff on each other for some unknown reason. Stiff and pale.

“Tospiringe…” Esther muttered, as she gazed at Derek’s lips, sighing in relief as his mouth opened of their own accord.

Ignoring the looks which she knew was casted on her by the five werewolves in the room, she emptied the contents of the cup into Derek’s mouth, before muttering another magic word that forced his mouth close.

She stood up then, the cup in her hand, and walked out of the sitting room.

***

An hour later…

“He has not opened his eyes yet.” Melvina said worriedly, as she caressed her son’s hair lovingly.

“You had mentioned that the medicine usually starts working immediately, and at most we should be seeing the results by fifteen to thirty minutes. It’s an hour now.” She stated, looking anxiously at Esther whose head was bent low even as she was seated on the same sofa with Anthony.

“Yes. But his case is quite different. As I had said earlier, I haven’t heard of the orb or its likeness, and so I won’t know how to tackle its casualties. I had just used the strongest healing herb for Derek, hoping it will work for him. I believe we should wait some more.” Esther replied, even as she entangled her fingers together.