"No, no, no. Claude, don't do this to me," I said as I held his face as he coughed more and looked into my eyes.
He smiled faintly before he told me, "Please remove them. Quickly..." he demanded as I nodded to remove them.
It was a good thing that Doctor McKenzie spared us a few antidotes in case something like this would have happened. Claude immediately took the vial and was about to bestow me the other one when someone shot it. Gasping, Claude quickly shielded me when we heard footsteps from where we came from.
"Well, well... I did not know I had a guest tonight."
Claude and I growled a warning when my father, Magnius Lothim, appeared with a sinister smile plastering on his lips. His hands were smeared with blood and I was horrified upon seeing that he was holding the... decapitated head of—
"Doctor McKenzie..." I mumbled his name as I started to feel disgusted at my father. "Why did you do that to him, Father?!" I hissed in pain when I felt the pain surge on my back.