What Now?

Alaron's body shook violently as Aurora, Devrim, their guards, and Brinn raced into the room. Nurlan and Devrim held down the boy to keep him from hurting himself, while Junayd went to fetch the doctor.

The convulsions went on for a minute before the prince went completely still. If not for his breathing, those present would have assumed he was dead.

"What happened?" Mairwen asked, horrified. She had promised her brother healing, and had instead brought terrifying tremors.

Brinn watched him, wondering the same thing. She had seen many humans, including most of those in the room, drink the water with no negative side effects. The doctor had been using the water too and had not mentioned anything like this.

"I think perhaps the magic did not want to leave his body peacefully. Or maybe the damage was so bad, that his body fought the treatment," the elf tried to make sense of what she was seeing.

Closing her eyes, Brinn used her wind magic to listen to the prince as she had before. His he