Jessy who saw her mistress's red face and the expressions on the doctor's as well her sister's face felt that she should break the ice and help her mistress from embarassment. She cleared her throat and introduced the young doctor to her mistress. "Madam, this is doctor Edward Morris."
The young doctor looked at the young pale faced, dark haired woman still in her nightdress who was tightly covered with a shawl the moment the maid besides herself saw the doctor.
Her purple eyes though seemed a little muddled but it seemed to contain a maturity beyond her age, reminding him of his mother. " Greetings my ladyship, I'm Doctor Edward, may I know how you are feeling right now?"
Adriana quickly got out of her embarassment and calmed herself before greeting him back, " Dr. Morris, I apologise for summoning someone as busy as you for something as simple as a headache. I'm alright -"
"Madam what do you mean you're alright. Look how pale you are and with your immunity to poison and curses, you've never had a hangover much less get sick. And you're saying you're alright", Claire exclaimed with tears brimming from her eyes.
Adriana felt that her thoughts were getting out of place as time passed by, her faced heated up and the head throbbed and hurt so bad that she could no longer think properly. Before due to her concerns over her daughter and her current situation, she never bothered to check her current condition.
Adriana since childhood was quite active and never fell sick so this was the first time she felt what being sick meant. ' Ahh this really hurts, but it's not that bad compared to getting stabbed with a sword right? It's not like a headache is going to kill me or something. Why is this child worrying about a simple headache. I've never heard anyone dying from a headache unlike from a stab.'
Edward looked at the Duchess of Britten, Adriana Valencia, an unfortunate woman who married the wrong man. The Duke of Britten, Auguste Von Britten, a man who didn't care much about his own family but had an abnormal interest in a widow, the wife of his friend.
His interest towards that woman was abnormal to the point he ignored his family's needs to cater for her. His interest towards that woman was quite ambiguous before his marriage, that not many knew about it. But after that, his interest in her was so obvious that everyone in the Kingdom knew it.
Seeing the young woman saying she's alright when she obviously was not made Edward remember his own mother who was abandoned by his ruthless father after finding another woman. Seeing his mother being projected in the image of the Duchess, he felt injustice for her and wanted to provide all the help that he could give her to make her happy, something he couldn't do for his mother.
With great determination the young doctor stepped forward and wanted to declare that he'll do his best to help her, but his rationality calmed him down from being reckless. He carefully looked at the Duchess who seemed to strangely keep her silence without moving a single inch since a moment ago. He finally noticed that though she seemed outwardly calm she kept getting paler as time passed, he hurriedly rushed to her side when she collapsed before asking Claire to immediately call for her friend Elaine, the greatest Master of the mage tower in 200 years in the history of the Kingdom.