Sick Alicia

Alicia lay still as the royal physician checked her. He placed his hand on her wrist and checked her pulse. After that, he checked her eyes and her tongue.

"How are you feeling?" He asked, looking at her with curious concern. 

Alicia's face was a picture of distress as she raised her hands to her head, "I feel very tired. My head feels like it's going to fall off my neck. My whole body aches. And I can't seem to keep my eyes open," Alicia said in a weak voice, as her eyelids fluttered as though they were shutting on their own volition, and she tried to lay down again. 

"She needs to eat properly and rest well. I think it is fatigue," the doctor said, turning to look at Beth, who was staring down at Alicia with disapproving eyes. There was nothing that anyone was going to tell her that would make her believe that Alicia was ill.