"Can I just let him be here?" Leticia mumbled as she scratched her cheeks trying to think of what she should do.
Only the broad back of the person was seen but because of the way he dressed, Leticia could clearly determine his gender.
"Is he drunk?"
Leticia thought it was possible. But then again, she begins to think about the people down this small town.
"But why did he decide to collapse in someone's garden in the middle of the night?"
"Should I really just leave him here? But the wind is cold now… he'll freeze to death."
Leticia was having a silent argument with herself of what she needed to do with the mysterious man that just popped up in her property.
She would find out the identity of this man if she saw his face and will just ask whoever his family is to come and get him in the morning. She sits down to slowly turn him around.
"Ugh…! Heavy!"
With the man now lying at his back, Leticia saw the mysterious face of the drunk man lying in her sacred garden.
"Hmmm?"
However, the face was covered with dirt so Leticia couldn't get a good look.
"Haa… That's what you get for trespassing in my garden and lying face flat on the ground." She said as if she was lecturing the man who is asleep.
Leticia thought that she should at least wipe it with the hem of her sleeves.
"Huh? It's wet…"
After wiping, Leticia became aware that the dirt covering his face was actually blood.
Gasp!
Leticia covered her mouth with her hands. She was so shocked because she just thought that it was some drunk man lost in her garden. She never thought that she would encounter something like this after living in Oakland for three years.
Then, Leticia, now aware of the situation, felt that the ground seemed to be damp and the man was heavily breathing.
"Haa...haa...haa" A low weak voice was heard from the man who Leticia thought was just sleeping earlier.
"What is this?! How badly injured are you?!"
Leticia became anxious as to what to do to the person who barged in her garden. If she needs to save him or just leave him there in the ground, injured and unconscious in the middle of the night.
But as expected, she could not just leave someone who's badly hurt in front of her.
'Shit what the hell is this situation!'
She panicked and was about to run inside her house to get some medicine but a big hand clasped hers.
"Huh?"
Leticia slowly glanced at the hand that weakly gripped her.
"H... elp me..."
***
Leticia wiped the sweat that formed in her forehead as she carried no more like dragged the man into her living area.
"Hah! You're freaking heavy!"
Plop!
The man dressed in all black lied down clumsily because Leticia clumsily let go of the man's shoulder.
She tilted her head from side to side to stretch the muscles that were strained because of the sudden heavy load that she needed to drag.
It was quite a sight to see a 5'4' woman pulling a body of a 6 foot 2 inches man from the garden all the way to the living area.
And looking at the traces that were left from the man who was tugged from the garden, there was dirt all over the wooden floor.
Leticia looked at him and sighs.
"What the hell am I doing, seriously?"
Let's just get him some first aid.
***
"Oh..."
Leticia let out a small gasp as she saw the condition of the mysterious man that now that he was being touched upon by the light of the candle, the raven hair that she thought was actually a rustic brown color.
The moment that Leticia thought that it was an ordinary hair color she felt relieved.
Anyway…
Hugh's body has a cut across from his chest that seems to come from a sword, it wasn't deep but the blood was still gushing out so Leticia needed to do medical care.
'I'm thankful that before I came into this world, I had the bare minimum knowledge and skills because of watching yo*tube videos…'
Leticia gratefully thought. There was actually something that she learned from hours of watching survival skills in the jungle and urban gardening that popped up in her recommendations in her Yo*Tube.
She only watched it for fun but the thought of applying it really never crossed her mind because she thinks that she would never end up in a forest or jungle alone and there was never really a need for urban gardening because she can just go to a grocery store to get some supplies but here she is, alone not in a jungle or forest but in a different world.
Now that she thinks about it, now that she's in a situation where she needs to apply survival skills like taking care of herself and getting familiar with medicinal plants and using it with old methods like grating or using pestle and mortar, Leticia is now thankful that her hobby can somehow help her save her self.
"I wished I watched a lot of useful videos like making shampoo and some other necessities but because I could only do my hobby in my free time I could only watch the recommendations that popped up on my page…" Leticia regretfully thought.
She was still trying hard to apply the basic knowledge that she gained during what she learned in home economics but the ingredients are not easily attainable or expensive.
Anyway...
Leticia cut his clothes and took them off to wipe his body carefully.
She needed to clean the area around his wounds to avoid infection but the view in front of her cannot be ignored as the ripped body of the man was something that Leticia only saw from the models that she saw in the covers of the magazine back on earth.
"Leticia… Focus!"
'Damn… He's also handsome. What the hell..."
Leticia smacks her head as what she needs to do is to help this man who asked her a favor before he fainted.
"Thank goodness there's no poison. I can apply the medicine that the sister's in the orphanage gave me."
She got up and went to her room where some ointment, healing potions, dried herbal medicines that she as well as the bandages are kept.
"I don't know if this will work for injuries like that…" She said in a worry. The healing potion only works for small cuts, fevers, and cough because it's not really concentrated like what the nobles use.
The medicine in this country is not really well developed.
Leticia was once again thankful that she knows some medicinal herbs but for now...
Pop!
The sound comes from where Leticia takes out the cork that covered the vial where the healing potion she got from the orphanage as a gift for always taking care of the children.
After a while, Leticia plopped down on the floor after she finished treating the patient.
"Whew... I should go back to sleep now." She said as she felt the tiredness in her body after experiencing tonight's event.
***
It's been three days since the mysterious man occupied Leticia's sofa.
And those three days, the man got a fever and Leticia nursed him whenever she got home from the orphanage.
He woke up on the second day and was delirious so Leticia didn't have the chance to ask him his name because he fainted again.
Leticia didn't know what the man's dream was for the past three days but he always has a desperate look and she seems to see some hint of despair in it.
And because of that Leticia thought that the man experienced some tragic past or trauma. And she decided to look after him again, silently.
But now is the fourth day, Leticia who woke up in the morning to leave for her work in the orphanage stopped her strides to look at the man lying on the sofa before she open the door.
She was worried because ever since he fainted again, he never once opened his eyes again even though the fever already subsided.
"Should I visit the clinic and asked for Mrs. Betty today?" Leticia contemplated.
She's been asking the orphanage for medical supplies and the sister's and the director got worried because they thought that it was her who got hurt.
Besides, Leticia was having second thoughts because for the past three days, she was asking the townsfolk if they knew some missing man that has rustic brown hair residing in the Oakland however, because his hair is so common and all the names that was given to her are also the people that she knew, Leticia was at lost of what to do.
She thought that it would be best to report it but Leticia just cannot abandon an injured man so she decided to let him wake up first before she asked for the authorities advice.
"I should visit the watch house and ask for Sir Lucio's opinion today..."