Eden immediately closed her bedroom door and locked it from the inside. She just wants to make sure that her sister, Hailey will not barge into her room as she liked because she needs to take care of the man's wounds first. And she doesn't want any kind of distraction when she tries handling the man's wounds especially not from her sister. She then took out the first aid kit box that she had hidden under the bed before opening her bathroom door. The moment Eden turned away after closing the bathroom door; her eyes met the sharp cold eyes looking at her intensely.
The man's eyes were pitching black with thick eyebrows that carve naturally and perfectly at the end with his long eyelashes. His small and pointed nose lay beautifully on top of his seductive red lips. His face is beautifully shaped like an anime sketch that looks so perfect. He's like a 3D painting with his rather pale white skin and long black jet hair that reaches right over his wide shoulder that will look stunning if he tied his hair into a man bun. As Eden checked the man out, suddenly Eden felt the temperature in the bathroom drop drastically. The men's intense gaze is made Eden feel nervous.
"What took you so long? Is it hard to convince your wolf sister!" he said with an angry tone. Eden pursed her lips. She then saw the wound on the right side of his abdomen for the first time. It looked like there is something still attached to the wound and it looked like a wooden peg or small knife but made from wood.
"It looks like a wooden peg that is carved to look like a small pocket knife. Who put it inside you? Is it the rouges? Or you got some enemies out there that are too eager to kill you?" Eden pulls out the face towel inside the small cabinets close to her. "I'm not going to pull it out for a time being because you might lose a lot of your blood..."
"Why can't you just pull it out?" he asks in a hoarse voice. He tries to hold his cough by grasping his breath. Eden just keeps quiet. Her hand is moved quickly and asks him to sit on the toilet bowl that she had closed.
"Just sit here for a while, okay? I need to prepare the bathwater with warm water for your wounds" said Eden without even taking a moment to glance at his annoying face.
"Why? My wound is not looking that bad..." Eden shook her head. She then points to the thing that is still inside his abdomen area.
"Look at the wooden peg that is pierced inside you right now. It is not ordinary wood. It is a sacred wood that is carved with the dark evil symbolism and has been bathed with the ancient mantras when the winter solstice moon happens" he groans with annoyance.
"How do you know? You look very young to know this kind of stuff. How old are you actually?" he asked again. He hates to be left bewildered especially when he so desperately to take out that bloody hell peg from inside his abdomen.
"I will let you know everything, later. Right now, is not the right time, okay? What is important is that we take care of your wounds first..." said Eden ignoring the men's repeated question— which wanted some further explanation from her. After filling the bath with warm water and some mixture of herbal water and dried leaves, Eden then propped the men's bodies into the bathtub.
"Try not to scream, okay..." again Eden tried to make sure that the man understand the importance of him not screaming because Hailey might come and kill him instantly. As Eden's hand holds the wooden peg her mouth also opens and closes murmuring something— she is reciting some of the old mantras that she learns from Queen Lena.
All of Eden's movements and deed's become the men's attention. His look could penetrate the seven thick walls easily. The man's face wrinkles a bit because of the pain that he tries to endure. Now, the colour of the bathwater had turned into black colour. Eden press the area of the wound with her hands and held the men's scream by placing a small towel in his mouth that had been moistened with some ancient herbal oil.
"Hold back your scream as hard as you can because I will press the wound back again. This will remove the last drop of the poison from inside your body... and please stay awake!" Eden bit her lips while pressing the wounds again. She can feel the man's body flinch when she presses it a little bit harder.
Although the poison is not the most poisonous if left unchecked it can paralyze his lower body forever because the poison is specially made to kill and paralyze the cold blood kin. This kind of poison is made by someone who knows a lot of ancient herbs, woods, and magic with ancient black magic that includes the worshipped Devil.
After removing the poison from the man's body, Eden then asked the man to change his clothes so that she could wrap his wounds later. Eden came out of the bathroom before returning with clean, dry clothes for the man to wear. "Change your clothes first. When you did, call me... am just standing behind the door, okay. We need to wrap your wounds so you can rest later" Eden then walk out and stand just behind the bathroom door so she can hear the man's voice if he had changed his wet clothes.
"I'm done... you can come in now," he said in a low tone of voice. Eden threw a smile when he saw the man dressed. But her forehead was furrowed when he was not wearing the shirt. Eden who at first wanted to scold the man for having an indecent attitude, finally get embarrassed herself when she saw the wound that was still bleeding in the right abdomen of the man.' God! I almost get myself embarrassed!'
Fortunately, the puncture was not very deep and hit the intestines or other important systems of his body. So for now he just needs to get rest for as long as he needed until the wounds are completely healed. If such a stab wounds a human being he will die no less than a minute because the weapon is tapered and sharp at the tip and is indeed reserved to kill someone as quickly as it can. But the ancient black magic on the wooden pegs is not intended for humans but it is intended to kill other supernatural clans. Eden is thankful because the poison and the magic that hit the man earlier were not the most dangerous poison and magic. She was able to save his life without involving others who would only endanger the man's life in general.
Eden took a bandage and wrapped it around the man's abdomen after she put a mixture of finely ground leaves and herbs and placed it on the man's wounds and cover it with gauze and white tape. She continues to wrap his body until the bandage covers the wounded perfectly. Not too tight because it will make him uncomfortable, after all, those herbs are mixed with some alcohol that will make the wounds feel hot and itchy on his skin.
"There you go! Now you need to take rest until your wound is perfectly healed and the cut is no longer bleeding or you will suffer from open wounded. So try not to move much, okay..." Eden helps the man's body leaning against her bed headboard. Eden fled her gaze when her eyes met those pitch-black eyes unmoving looking at her like she is some kind of fresh meat. His gaze was sharp and formidable to Eden. He made her feel uncomfortable.
"Speak!" he said in his monotonous voice commanding Eden to start talking about all that she know and how much she know about the entire process involving witchcraft magic, legends, history, and anything that had a connection with especially his kin. If a young teenage girl from the human clans can figure out the poison or produce the treatment for a supernatural creature like him, is most likely that humans are finally starting to evolve and try to destroy the supernatural worlds. And that is serious! Because they were living long enough and see much of the chaos and destruction that humans had made just because they are greedy for power.
"What is it that you want to know? You need to rest and not ask me the irrelevant question after I'm saving your life. Like I said before, I will tell you everything after you heal, and right now, if you could excuse me a moment..."
"Where do you think you're going, young lady?" Eden scoffs with his attitude but did not comment further. Eden only uses sign language to him by saying that he needs to drink a special tonic if he wants to recover quickly and know everything. He snorted angrily when his order was denied by a mischievous teenage girl like Eden.
Eden took out some of her herbal ingredients and tries to cook something for the man. She knows that he is not a normal human being but he still needs to eat. But she forgot to ask him if he eats or drinks like the ancient of his kin or if he is eat and drinks like a modern supernatural creature like a werewolf or the Demons. 'Should I or should I not? Hum... but where I can find fresh flesh and blood? Dang! I should ask him... just to confirm that he, not the ancient one!'
Eden tries not to make so many noises and sounds at night like that if she wants her sister to stay peaceful in her dreams. So she skips the knocking and enters her bedroom. But before she can ever start her first words, the man shoots her with his annoying words.
"First am not very old! Although I might be older than you are in my kin age, I am still a young adult person probably two or four years older than you. Yes! I am a modern vampire if that is what your dirty mind thought of me..." Eden rolls her eyes with unbelievable sighs. That man surely can do telepathy things like the werewolves do's. "Don't give me that look, young lady! You don't know who I am and I can put you in prison if you denied my command!"
"What the heck are you saying? Well forgive me your highnesses... for my dirty thought, thinking like that about you and your kin... but I am human so I need to confirm and make sure everything is clear because I can misunderstand certain things too!" said Eden with her tight voice. The man only looks at her with his cold, sharp eyes. Eden waits for him to counterpart but he remains silent. So Eden took advantage to pour out her heart content towards him.
"I want to make sure that I don't mix something that might endanger you or your wounds. I know, I made mistake but I can't help it, okay... so if you are the modern type like you said, do you eat food that is cooked and have soup? Or you just eat raw like... you know..." said Eden deliberately not saying the words as she knows that he is boiling on the inside.
"Just make what is good for me! If you try harming me by putting the unwanted things in that food I will make sure the DPO burned you alive!" he spat the words angrily. Now Eden feels that he is not as intimidating as earlier ago. She feels comfortable talking to him and makes him annoying.
"I will keep your vicious punishment in mind! Anyway... the food that I want to make might taste like something not so nice for your likened but is good for your body and give an antidote for crucial poison if you got stabbed back again..." Eden saw his jaw clenching and he held his fist knuckles tightly— possibly because he is too angry with Eden's careless attitude and he tried hard to contain his anger.
"You should try to control your temper before it's too late" Eden exclaimed her words but what she said is the real facts. Cold-blood kin like himself should be good at controlling their anger because the enemy likes to make their opponents angry so they can see others' weaknesses more easily. "I know is not my right place to say that but as the kin who lived long enough, you should know how enemies love to play with your feelings and saw your fear and weakness by making you angry without a reason..."
"How do you know much about these supernatural things and worlds? I know your family is from the werewolves clans but as I can see and smell you, you are just a normal human girl and I can't sense any magic in you... so who are you? This time I ask you as the future king of cold-blood kin" he said with his surprised husky kind of voice.
"So if you are the future king of the cold blood kin, you must be Prince Xavier Alexander Eugène de Beauharis, Duke of Albertine from the first French empire. Wow... you are old!" exclaimed Eden without even thinking of the tight expression of the person she was talking to who look like is ready to kill her and put her inside the six feet deep ground.
"Ehem!" Eden presses her smile in tiny lines. She already pisses him off more than once. She better cooked him some food so that he can heal faster and Eden doesn't have to see his annoying cold grumpy attitude again.
"I'll bring the food when it's ready. So... try to have some rest in a meantime!" Eden hurried to walk out of the bedroom and close the door with deep exhales. She goes to the kitchen and heats the pot with some mixture of dried fruits and herbs as her kitchen is empty without any food. She writes something on a sticky note and put it as 'important things to do— tomorrow!!' on the refrigerator.