Chapter 18. The Necklace

When Razor lost consciousness out of the blue, Maxie and I were both shocked. No one could have predicted that such a thing would happen.

We spent the first half hour trying to bring the boy to his senses on our own. Maxi even gave him a good slap in the face… But nothing of the tried methods worked. In the end it was more than just a temporary blur.

We urgently needed the help of a healer.

The first thing we did was to ask for help in the village of Sorus. But the only healer left there turned out to be completely useless. According to him: he really could not understand what happened to the second prince. As he had only dealt with the simplest of illnesses before.

Meanwhile, Razor's condition was not getting any better: even after twenty-four hours he was still unconscious. Maxie and I were getting more and more worried about that.

— It seems there is no choice,» the girl sighed. «We must return to the Archduke.

I agreed with her.