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"What should we do now. It looks like the bird can't swallow it all."

"Yes. It really won't. Her soul is still hot since she just died. We need to cool it down first."Vina said.

"How."

"Your blood. Yes, you need to cool it with your blood for some seconds. Afterwards this bird would swallow it."

Are you sure grandma?"

After assuring me, I chose to believe her words and did as she said.

Without asking any more questions, I picked up a sharp knife from the fruit basket and just like that I cut my left palm without hesitation.

It wasn't long before blood began to flow like a river on the floor till it reached where the exhausted bird laid.

After sometime, the bird swallowed it up before it fell unconscious.

All I could muster right then were three words, "what's this Vina?"was all I could ask.

She would tell me to have patience. "The bird just passed out. I'm sure it's going to come around though I'm not sure when."

"I hope it wasn't too late". She mumbled but I heard it all.

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