Chapter 184 - Training Abilities
I tried and tried till hours had passed. Dandeline had gone to check up on whether the others had woken up. Right now, when I looked down and saw the small bucket that had been collecting my blood for an hour now and I bled quite some amount. It was no use if I passed out like yesterday.
Now that I was left alone, I concentrated on my wound. The slow drip of my blood as it dropped into the bucket.
My breathing was controlled and calm. I slowly thought of what I wanted my blood to do. I wanted it to heal my wound and slowly, one by one, close the muscles and then the skin. I felt the blood rush in my veins and I imagined it to heal my wounds. It took me a few more minutes, but I slowly started feeling as if I was pulled into some other space and there was a tingling sensation between my brows that spread throughout my head. I could feel an unknown force travel down my spine and towards the wound.
Slowly, I focused it to feel my entire being, and in that concentrated state, I started to feel the other parts of my body. Not from the outside, but from the inside.
As if the images flashed in front of my eyes, of the tendons and the muscles and the veins and the bone and every little nerve that passed throughout my body. My focus slowly went to every organ in my system and the way my heart pumped blood in a steady-state right now.
Just then, the door clicked and my focus was disturbed in an instant, as if a glass that cracked. I clicked my tongue as I opened my eyes.
Dandeline had already returned worried and looking at me, still at it with an open wound on my hand, she quickly brought the first aid kit from the drawer, "Madam, you shouldn't risk yourself so much." I looked at my wound and realised, in the gist of looking through my body, I had forgotten to actually try healing my wound.
I was rather glad that I found that small link and the place in my head from where my abilities were controlled. "Dandeline, I want to try something."
Dandeline looked at me with a creased brow as her hand continued to tape my wounds, "Please don't say you want to hurt yourself any more than this, I will not let you do that."
I giggled at her response. This was the highest amount of dare Dandeline had ever shown against me.
"It is about you. I want you to take some of my blood," I asked Dandeline.
Dandeline smiled, "I already have your blood in my system." Dandeline continued to wrap the white bandaid tape around my palm and tied the loose ends. "Do you want me to have any injury so you can try healing me? I am fine with that, we have done that a lot before."
"True," I responded, remembering the times in the castle where Dandeline had initially turned into my guinea pig of experimenting with my abilities. "This is different, just sit here calmly."
I patted beside me on the sofa as I shifted to the left to let her sit.
Dandeline, without any hesitation, moved to sit beside me. Sometimes I worried that this girl would even die for me if asked. She did not even ask what it was, just blindly trusting and following as usual. She sat and waited for me to say anything and I closed my eyes, trying to feel the same with Dandeline as what I had seen through my body. If I could look through that, only meant I had to focus enough to get the healing back to my human form and not just that, also selective healing.
It took me some time to focus outside me and slowly I started to see through Dandeline and the first thing I saw was her heart and then her veins and slowly the rest.
I was able to see how I had first discovered my ability in the dungeons when I had felt every welt on my body and healed them.
My eyes opened with some happiness in them, "It works. I could see through you again!"
Dandeline smiled immediately, "That is so amazing! Are you able to heal? We should try that as well." Dandeline was more than eager to help, but I was not in the state to do that.
I had other things to ask, "Let's practise it later. Tell me about the pack members. Are they awake?"
Dandeline nodded, "They are. I checked each and every one of them, they are alright. The doctor said they would be discharged my evening after doing some tests."
"That is so useless," I spoke as I got up from my spot.
Dandeline moved the bucket that was collecting my blood before I could take it and she got to the bathroom to wash the blood off.
"You should let me work a little," I said as I moved to the dining table to pick up an apple and biting into it.
Dandeline's voice echoed from the bathroom, "Oh no Madam, how can I let you work when you already have so much to stress about your job. You should take some rest, you haven't slept last night."
I huffed a smile, "I am not feeling very sleepy."
There was silence for a moment and Dandeline came out of the bathroom. She dried her hand on the towel that was hanging outside on a circle hanger. Dandeline gingerly stepped out just the way she had stepped inside the house, with worry lacing her brows. I did not ask her because she looked like she was going to say it anyway, "Madam, there is a problem that might need your attention."
"What is wrong?" I asked, keeping the apple down.
Dandeline hesitated before speaking, "The people are enraged near the police station and it seems like the Chief is pushing the blames on Waterwoods. This will hugely affect our mission."