The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 217

Inside Ember’s bed-chamber, only the sounds of Reya’s and Clio’s movements could be heard.

They had given her the vitality potion as per the King’s order in order to relieve the side effects of her magic exhaustion, and then they proceeded to clean her body from sweat.

However, even after an hour had passed by, Ember continued to remain unconscious. Her servants, who were waiting for her to wake up, could not help but worry for her.

Clio was still a bit better; she tried to distract herself by wiping the dustless furniture and tidying up the chamber again and again. On the other hand, Reya was pacing around to the point that her younger cousin was getting dizzy, her angry rambling the dominant sound echoing inside the chamber.

“Why isn’t Miss waking up?”

“Should we inform Dame Yula to send in a healer just in case?”

“Maybe one bottle of potion isn’t enough? Should I request one more?”

“This is the Young Lady’s fault! I know she’s bad luck! As soon as she comes back to the palace, this happens—”

The rest of her words were swallowed the moment they felt movement in the bed and the two servants hurried to check on Ember. However, instead of joy, the elves felt panic.

Rather than seeing her rousing from sleep, they found Ember restlessly turning in bed, her face pale and dotted with cold beads of sweat.

“Miss? Miss, can you hear me?” Reya asked but there was no response.

Nightmare.

“Looks like Miss is having a nightmare,” Clio said.

Reya put her hand on Ember’s arm to wake her up, but the moment she touched Ember, she retracted her hand as if she had touched something that she should not have. Despite the fabric between their skin, she felt her burning up.

“Why is Miss’s body temperature so high?” Reya mumbled. “She didn’t have a fever earlier!”

Clio reached out as well, and this time, she touched Ember’s hand. She flinched. “It’s not normal to have such a high temperature even for our kind. For a human with a weaker body, this should be really dangerous.”

“We need to inform His Majesty.”

Just as Clio said those words, they heard the door slam open and saw Draven entering his mate’s chamber with quick strides.

Because of what happened, Draven had expanded his senses to pay particular attention to the unconscious girl. Though he could not detect Ember herself with his powers, it was easy for him to check on her servants from time to time despite him being in his study.