58 The Bloody Mess (1/2)
A bright blue light appeared cutting off the Harclaw family's discussion. After the light went away looked towards the light source. It was Jaime, she was laying on the ground. Linri immediately headed towards her.
The worst of his worries had come to life. Jaime was lying on the ground, she was a bloody mess. Her silver hair was covered in blood, her porcelain-like skin had countless bruises and cuts, one of her eyes was swollen and there was blood coming out of her mouth.
”Mom!” Linri called his mother who was just behind her.
Linri sat beside her and gently raised her head to make breathing easier. His feelings were in a turmoil. What if something to her? What if what happened was because of him?
Lyra sat beside and started to treat her wounds. Others from the expedition had formed a circle around them watching intently. Someone teleporting here had become an almost common occurrence to them but this was the first time that it was someone on the verge of death.
One of the people among them left the circle and sat across Lyra. He had unkempt blonde hair, a dirty beard. He had glasses but one of the lenses was cracked. He started to help with treatment and from his actions, he seemed experienced with this. At least more so than Lyra.
They slowly cleaned the wounds and bandaged them. Throughout this whole ordeal, the man did not say a single word. After he was done patching up Jaime he stood back up and left just like that. Linri looked at the almost mummy-like Jaime.
”Mom, is she gonna be alright?” He sounded worried.
”Don't worry, she will be fine.” Lyra then proceeded to inject something to her.
Linri looked at Jaime helplessly. There was nothing he could do to help her. Wait! There was actually something he could do to help her. That was to get them out of here and take her to a real hospital.
”Mom, do you have any idea about how to escape this place?” Lyra was done with the injection so she lifted her head to look at Linri. She had a bitter smile on her face.
”No idea, but don't worry we will get out. Now that you are here we can't afford to keep staying here. Oh yeah, last time I checked you were supposed to go away if I did not return.” She gave Linri a fierce glare. That was only the tip of the iceberg. The rage she felt at this moment was not even close to what she let on. Her son basically threw his life away just to reach this trap. Wasn't it enough that she and her husband were locked here to die? Was this really how her family going to die?
Even though she was angry, she could not really criticize her son. She did the same thing when Arkady went missing, so she could at least understand why Linri did not listen to her. Well if they could survive this, it would be better that Linri did not appear on 'her' doorstep suddenly. It would be too much to take in for him.