Chapter 45

I watched him with total horror. If my scream could cause agony in other people, I wouldn't know how to describe Miguel's scream made me totally depressed. My heart, for the first time in months, tightened in such a way that I thought I could be suffering from some sudden stop of the heartbeat. I rubbed the medicine in the palms of his hands, noticing that nothing was happening. I was so used to not hurting myself with anything, and never getting sick from any human disease, that it seemed unreal to me that someone could still feel pain and not immediately improve with some healing action. Human remedies were good, for humans... For creatures that were not of that world, the difficulty became even greater.

“You need to turn around “I spoke in a trembling voice, dropping the cotton on the floor and exchanging it for another one that was not dirty with the blood of the raw flesh of his hands. “I have to sew the place where his wings should be.

“No “he moaned, repressing an