Dear Friends,
I'm sorry you have had to wait a longtime for this chapter but, as usual life got in the way of me completeing this chapter for last month.
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From Kay
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A White Tiger and The Wolf Ch 13.
Chapter 13:
Healing and getting settled.
In the Medical Centre
John was talking to Nathan and some nurses in the reception area of the medical centre when Kay, Bradley and Phillip walked into the medical centre. He saw Connie coming out of Zina's room. From the short distance away, he saw her look straight at a grievously injured man. He took a harder look at him and suddenly realised who it was. By god that is Phillip he realised as Philip limped into reception area.
His wife looked, gasped and then fainted.
Before John could move to her side, Bradley managed to catch his mother-in-law before she hit the floor. John rushed over to Connie and gently took her from Bradley's arms before taking her into the office with a couch. John stroked Connie's cheek as she came round and she stared at him, wondering whether she had just dreamt seeing her brother.
Relieved of Connie's unconscious weight, Bradley led Phillip to the treatment room to permit Nathan to x-ray Kay's uncle's leg to find out the damage done to it. Even to Bradley's and Kay's untrained eyes, in the x-ray on the light box, Phillip's leg looked like it had been broken several times previously. Two of the old breaks had not healed with the bones aligned.
"MMMMMMMMMMM your leg has been through a lot; the new break in your femur is a clean break and should be healed pretty quickly. "There and two old breaks though in your tibia that healed, but the bones and not aligned properly, so those will have to be put right by re-breaking them and setting them with pins before you will have full use of that leg", said Nathan.
Kay had followed Phillip into the examination room and was just standing by the side watching. Kay had a thought earlier as she had been talking to her mom about her fire element power and the ways she could use it. She knew that the fire element in her could be used for healing and she really wanted to try and help her Uncle.
"You may not have to use pins to mend his leg Nathan", said Kay softly.
"What do you have in mind, Your Highness?" asked Nathan.
"Uncle Phillip, can I take a look at your leg", asked Kay still speaking softly.
"I like you calling me Uncle Phillip. Yes, go ahead and take a look if you want to", he replied. Phillip wondered if Kay had inherited Connie's fire elemental magic. He knew, if Nathan did not, that if she had, Kay would be able to fix his leg without need to operate.
Kay took hold of her Uncle's leg and closed her eyes; she could see the bones in his leg as if through a haze. It was almost as if she had connected to his inner being. The others watching her saw that Kay was glowing, a warm red colour, and Phillip could feel the warmth from her hands.
Kay slowly opened her eyes and spoke. "Uncle Phillip, I can fix your leg for you, but it might be better for Nathan to knock you out while we re-break the old fractures that have healed in the wrong alignment", said Kay.
"Kay have your inherited your mom's fire elemental powers, then?" asked Phillip.
"Yes and a whole lot more," Kay replied, before continuing firmly, "I will explain tomorrow and show you a bit of what I can do, but at the moment I think it is best to fix your leg"
Phillip lay down on the trolley and let Nathan inject him with an anaesthetic to knock him out. Once he was out, Kay moved to his side and rolled up his trouser leg. Nathan took hold of the leg and Mason took hold of his body between them they managed to break and then realign the bones.
"Everyone be silent now as I must concentrate for this bit", said Kay, "Nathan you hold the leg straight and keep those bones aligned please. Before I start, make sure the outer security doors are shut and locked as I don't want to be disturbed as I attempt this." Bradley moved from her side only long enough to shut and lock the outer doors.
"Now you must not touch me during this at all otherwise you could hurt me as well as yourselves", she said.
"Yes, Your Highness we understand", replied Nathan.
Phillip was shirtless, leaving both his chest above his heart and his leg easily accessible. Kay walked to the side of the trolley. She put her right hand over his heart and her left hand on his right thigh. The temperature in the room started to rise and Kay's hands started to glow a little red. She closed her eyes and sent out her power through her hands to Phillip's leg and body. The glow slowly spread from her hands, up her arms and soon her body was glowing. The others could actually feel the heat in the room rising as Kay's fire power pulsed through her body and into Phillip, visibly entering Phillip through her hands.
Kay could see where the bones were broken and imagined them mended and unscarred again. She pictured in her mind his skin being normal without the ugly burn marks and the marks faded as the pulsing got stronger. Kay felt the bones knit together and some of the scars on Phillip's body were disappearing.
Kay remembered what her mom said about the fire element and healing spirit.
The energy had to be drawn back into her now that the healing was complete. She knew that it was now time to pull the energy back into herself and release the healing spirit that she was using.
The pulsing was beginning to fade and Kay was slowly coming back from her trance-like state. She stopped sending her energy into Phillip and removed her hands from him. She was still glowing ever so slightly when she stopped and opened her eyes. Kay felt exhausted and she knew she had to sit down and rest before she passed out. Bradley noticed how tired Kay was and went to get a chair from the corner and helped her to sit down. Nathan handed her a glass of water.
"Are you alright, Your Highness?" asked Nathan.
"I will be fine in a bit, just need to rest a while", replied Kay. "Please use the scanner and make sure the bones are in the right place now." Kay knew they were, but she also knew that Nathan would want to check.
"They look really good, Your Highness", he replied.
"Good, take him to recovery, but I suggest not letting him try walking till tomorrow, and let the legs rest for tonight", said Kay. Mason asked her if Phillip would awake with any side effects.
Kay thought for a while and then remembered what her mom told her about the side effects of healing a person with the fire spirit.
"The only thing is he may be feeling a little warm when he wakes up, but should be back to normal in a few hours", replied Kay.
Nathan opened the doors and wheeled the trolley into the recovery ward.
Meanwhile in the ward office, Connie just stared at the wall with tears streaming down her face and thought to herself; how can it be my brother; he disappeared fifteen years ago? How can it be him? How did Lazlo get hold of him? All these questions went round and round in her head.
John held Connie's hand and wondered whether she was going to cope with all this pressure. He thought that his family was complete when he was re-united with his daughter and his wife. Now he had a sister-in law, a niece, and a brother-in-law in the short space of a fortnight. Connie turned slowly to John and he put his arms around her while she was sobbing uncontrollably in his arms. She just couldn't get her head round recent events properly at the moment and everything just felt overwhelming to her.
While her father soothed her distraught mother in the ward office, Kay came out of the surgical theatre still feeling a little tired and wondering where Bradley was. She found him in reception, which was in utter chaos. Bradley was talking to the guards and giving them extra guard duties to protect the out buildings of the medical centre later that night, as some of the younger patients were feeling a bit scared. Nurses and a few extras were charging in and out with bandages and trolleys. There was screaming coming from the side ward where Kay knew Zina to be. A few royal guards were trying to keep the peace, because some of the new arrivals from Lazlo's prison were panicking a bit.
Kay decided to go into Zina's room to make sure she too did not need calming. When she walked in, a nurse was trying to clean Zina up, but every time she went near the girl with the wet sponge, Zina started shouting and hurling abuse. Kay could see the nurse was getting very nervous, and though she was trying not to scare the little girl lying on the bed, the nurse seemed to be making things more difficult rather than easing the tension in the room. "What is the matter with Zina?" Kay asked the nurse.
"Well, I have been helping out trying to clean everyone but the showers are full at the moment. Nathan asked me to give her a sponge bath and try and clean the wounds on her back, but she will not let me near her with the water," replied the nurse. "You know if I didn't know better, I'd say she has never seen water before", she said curiously.
"According to her mom Angelica, she was born in the dungeon from which we rescued her, and she was used as a sex toy from the age of ten onward," Kay whispered back.
