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I quickly used the few things I could find at home to cool her down since I didn’t have my equipment with me.

A bowl of cold water. Clean cloth. Some herbs I knew would help. It wasn’t much, but it had to be enough. Her body was burning. Not the normal kind of fever.

This was deeper… the kind that made the skin feel like fire under my fingers.

I dipped the cloth into the water and squeezed it, watching the drops fall back into the bowl before placing it on her forehead. Her ...