Back in Nimbus, after dropping off Liliya by her room after a successful date, which was accompanied by her sweet goodbye kiss, I knocked at the door of my mother's room.
"Did you wait long?"
"No, they still haven't started it yet."
My sister welcomed me in, and I found all the maid-sisters forming a circle at the centre of which lay my mother, completely devoid of her clothes, submerged with eyes closed in a big bathtub.
The maid-sisters surrounding her gave some finishing touch to the many arrays formed on the bathtub and the part of the floor and roof around it.
Surrounding the bath, there were many herbs segregated and arranged properly. Also, there was a rack of many fresh bath towels kept on the ready, alongside some sharp needles, scalpels and knives.
This scene seemed reminiscent of those of 'surgeries' in the memories of one of my past lives, and I couldn't help but sense a feeling of dread.
