10 The Blood Trail

A few days pass since Nadia's outing in town. Since then Nadia would go out in the morning to the forest and train (after stealing some bread from the kitchen) with a wooden sword and physical training till nearing the afternoon then she would work on practicing her magic for a few hours, before heading inside to do some reading and designing or blueprints for the blacksmiths to follow to make her specialized magic bow.

The bow was to be able to fold in half and be made out of the typical material from her world to make it fairly light. After she finished making the blueprints she worked on her ability to enhance items it was a hit and miss project at the moment. Then at night, she would read up on the materials of this world to be able to use for later projects.

Not once had that man returned to talk about the issue of Eva's maid though Nadia didn't really care much since she was a modern-day woman more used to doing things for herself. Then there was the fact that despite it being nearly 3 weeks since she arrived she has not seen the duke or her little sister since.

After 4 days worth of this hard work she noticed that her hand begun to bleed. It was the cut from that day she never used healing magic to close the wound and allowed it to heal naturally, but not only that her raw hands from her train had just begun to bleed in general from taring skin. Nadia clicked her tongue in annoyance she hasn't had to deal with such a thing since she was a child so it annoyed her this has happened.

She was only halfway through her regular training. She decides to put the rest of her normal training regime on hold for now and just work on endurance and speed for her current body. She also used this chance to practice some magic and cast an invisibility spell over herself.

When she finished that she removed the spell over herself and went inside she didn't care about the blood that was dripping down her fingertips. When she opened the front door she smeared blood on the door handle. She walked through the main hall ignoring the increased number of glances at her since she came at a different time than normal. She ignored their eyes though it made her stomach twist and made her feel extremely uncomfortable she didn't let it show on her face. Blood still dripping from her fingers as she walked through the main hall, up the stairs to the second floor, down the hall and to her door.

She grabbed the door nob to her roof with her slashed hand coating the nob with her blood before entering her room. She immediately went to the bathroom and washed her hands to clean the wounds. 'Thank god for magic making it easy to wash my hands and take a bath.' Nadia muttered as she washed out the wounds and washed off the blood the coated her hands and arm.

With her hands cleaned up she went back to her room and used magic to open up the door to the closet as well as get to the first aid kit. She placed the towel she used on her vanity and set the floating med kit light down next to it. She sat down at the vanity and opened the med kit and begun to treat her wounds.

Around the time that Nadia was washing her bloodied hands the young duke Julian Espinoza when he noticed the blood in the main hall. He was quick to realize there was a trail. He first followed the trail and notice to lead to the door and to the stairs but he didn't notice any blood on the handle so he thought it would be best to head up the stairs first. "Hey, Benjamin have someone clean up this blood that's trailing through the house."

"Of course… pardon blood?"

"Yes blood, clean it up right away."

"Of course young master."

Julian then followed the trail of blood that leads him to Evangeline's room. He reached for the door nob and as soon as he grabbed it he noticed something was wrong when he looked at his hand he noticed that it was smeared with blood. Then a loud audible curse and groan came from Evangeline's room.

Julian ignored manners and hastily entered Eva's room. "Evangeline!" He called out recognizing the voice from the other side of the door. He opened the door to find 'Evangeline' sitting at her vanity with two dishes of water, a candle, and a strung needle. She was holding the needle in the fire of the candle and the string strung through the needle lead all the way back to her hand that had the string poking out of her skin.

Nadia/Eva just glance over at Julian who just burst into the room and just when back to the task as hand and dunked the heated needle into the water which caused a hissing sound to be released then stuck the needle into the skin creating a stitch, she did this till she got to the opened wound then pulled on the string tight to close the wound with the stitches and she bit through the string to free the stitch from the spool then tied the ends to ensure the stitch wasn't about to come undone.

"What did you just do?!" Julian asked with a harsh voice grabbing Eva's now stitched up hand.

"I closed the wound with stitches. Sadly now I can't properly use this hand for a few days to make sure it doesn't scar." Eva replied in a monotone voice. 'Good thing I practiced in using healing magic I healed the other smaller wounds first. I'll heal the large cut on my hand later… so it won't open when I'm training again. But really I didn't expect Julian to appear in front of me this is the first time seeing him in person.' Nadia muttered.

"Young duke what is the reason you've come to my room."

"You left a trail of blood."

"Oh… I apologize for that."

"Just don't do it again."

"… sure."

With that Julian left the room closing the door behind him. 'Jeez, frick'n asshole coming here to scold me for the trail of blood… didn't even ask if I was alright or had any other injuries.' Nadia growled. She put the med kit away and threw the bloody towels into the laundry basket, till I finally threw out all the gauze that I used to deal with the blood as I healed each opening one area at a time.

With her physical training on hold and do a fair amount of magic training before lunch Nadia decided to go outside and read that way, she could do a little more magic training if she wanted.