Subtle Worries

As the morning rays filtered into Alexander's room, his very first memory after waking up was that of an intense splitting headache and an extremely painful throat.

His entire body felt very heavy and when Alexander tried to speak, he found it very difficult even just to swallow a gulp.

In fact, simply opening his eyelids hurt.

Alexander instantly understood what was happening to him, i.e.- his previous worries had really come true and yesterday's dip in the freezing cold water had come to bite him back.

He was running an extremely high fever.

This made the man groan in his heart because he had a lot to do today- the most pressing of which was discussing what to do regarding Anoon and Achillas with Lady Miranda.