The healer’s chambers had descended into complete chaos. The scent of blood already filled the air heavily, mixing with crushed herbs, smoke from healing incense, and the metallic sting of panic.Servants rushed frantically from one side of the massive chamber to another carrying bowls of steaming water, clean cloths, medicine trays, and bundles of healing plants. The atmosphere felt suffocating, loud, and tense enough to snap at any moment and at the center of it all Desmond Blackwood was making everything worse.“MOVE!”His furious roar echoed through the chamber so violently that one of the younger maids nearly dropped the tray in her hands.Desmond sat partially upright on one of the healer’s large beds despite the obvious agony his body was in. Thick bandages wrapped around his ribs and shoulder while bruises and cuts covered nearly every inch of exposed skin.One arm had been crudely stabilized because of a fracture, his breathing was uneven, his face pale from blood loss and y
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