Crossing the Border (Rania) novel Chapter 267

Chapter 267

For a moment, it didn’t occur to Rania what she meant by that, but then she realized and Rania felt the world crumble under her feet.

They didn’t allow these women to stay in the omega’s quarter and let them to fend for themselves near the forest after they used them. After they had gotten what they wanted and the pleasure that they forced out on these women.

And when they were no longer satisfied their lustful needs and they were pregnant, they were being discarded to the side.

Maximus had told Rania too that these people in the Barlukan Kingdom would prefer a son more than a daughter.

Now Rania could see why Eli and the other lived here, at the outer side of the pack house. It was because they had daughters. They were put aside with their daughters and had to leave their sons in the hand of the warriors, so the boy could be trained as a warrior as well.

Meanwhile, only younger girl would live in the omega’s quarter. Their daughters were going to live in the omega’s quarter once they were twelve years old and the circle repeated.

Rania had been told about this by Maximus, but it was so different between knowing it and seeing it with her own eyes. Her heart ached for them. They didn’t deserve to be treated this way.

However, everything had happened and there was nothing she could do about it.

“Where is she?” Rania asked Eli about her daughter. Here, she saw, at least, a hundred of small hut. It was barely a place to live. They only build these huts with whatever they could find around the forest.

Rania was sure it would flood when rain season came, but that was not her main concern now.

“Here, she is inside.…..” Eli said sheepishly, feeling embarrassed to show the hut to Rania.

Meanwhile, the other women with their children, daughters to be precise were hiding inside their huts when Rania came over, but they peeked through the holes or the small windows that they made on the hut’s wooden wall.

Rania didn’t pay attention to them, but Lucian told me that he is going to ask for more warriors to stay on guard around the place.

Even though I didn’t agree with that, but Lucian insisted, because he couldn’t afford if something bad happened to me.

In the end, I relented, but only if they stayed out of the sight of these people. They could be around the outer pack but not inside this small village that these women had created.

Lucian had no other choice, but to agree with Rania’s term.

“You don’t need to do it,” Rona said, when Rania opened the flap that used as a door. “She will be fine.”

“It’s okay, I will not do anything, I only want to check on her and see if there is something that I can do for her,” Rania replied softly, as she entered the hut.

Eli and Rona looked at each other, while Aria was the quiet one among the three, she barely spoke.

Once Rania was inside, she smelled something bitter, and this came from a little girl, who was sleeping on a makeshift bed, which was made by a few pieces of clothes that Eli sewn together

The little girl looked so weak and thin. Instead of six years old, she looked like she was four years.

Carefully, Rania approached the little girl and then sat down on the ground, which made Eli and Rona looked uncomfortable. Aria had gone to her own hut, while Lucian came with Rania to enter the hut.

“How long she has been having a fever?” Rania touched her forehead, the little girl whimpered in her sleep, as if she was being very uncomfortable and Rania could understand that. She was burning and she still had not yet figured out what the smell that came from her.

“She had been like this for a week,” Eli replied.

“What have you given to her all this time? Have you given the dragon sced?” Rania was curious how much dragon seed that Eli let her daughter consumed. She also tried to remember her son with Karin, trying to remember an important thing that might relate to this and could help with this little girl’s condition.

“I have given the dragon seed for the last two days. Here it is, my queen.” Eli gave the remaining dragon seed that she had. “I mixed a tea spoon of dry dragon seed and with a glass of water and I gave her thrice per day.”

Rania took the powder that was dried dragon seed and smelled i It had a strong aroma, but there was something not right.

“Did you mix it with something else?” Rania felt something was not right. The scent of a pure dragon fruit is not like this.

“Yes… because of the fever, I mixed it with a spoon of green moss Eli said in a weak voice. “I heard green moss can subside fever.”

These people didn’t have an access to a healer, thus they made do with whatever they could find around here.

“Green moss?” Rania frowned, she didn’t know there was plant named like that. “Can I see that?”

Eli then went to get something from inside a small drawer at the corner of the room and then handed it over to Rania.

Only then, Rania realized what was that. What people said green moss in this kingdom was actually a triangle leaves in the Aspen kingdom.

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