Chapter 13: Clinic

In Shani's clinic, Mikael was sitting beside a window, the yellow sunset light kissed his skin gently as Shani was examining his right arm stump. The room was quiet, the decorations made the place look comfortable, it was a perfect retirement home if Mikael ever thought of that.

But then, Shani, who was beside him, clicked her tongue in annoyance as she saw his right arm wound.

"You said you lost your arm a long time ago." she grumbled, bringing more spirit to the table beside her.

"It's true Shani, it's my condition… my… curse."

"Curse?"

"You can't heal that wound." sighed Mikael. "Trust me, I tried cleaning it with the best witcher medicine there is."

"Well, you're not a witcher." murmured Shani. "I'll try something."

"No, don't touch the wound." flinched Mikael as Shani tried to touch the rot. "It's dangerous."

"What do you mean dangerous, it's just an unclean wound."

"No, it's not," said Mikael. "Give me your hand."

Shani raised her eyebrow, before giving her hand to Mikael.

Mikael held her hand, and sooner or later, her hand started to rot.

"Wait what?!" Shani panicked, stepping back from Mikael as she saw her hand slowly rot. It didn't stop when she stepped back however, making Shani look at Mikael in curiosity and fear.

"What's this? What did you do?"

"It's my ability, my curse, my gift, whatever you want to call it." he answered, he stretched his hand to Shani again, asking for her hand.

Shani slowly walked towards him, and held his hand once again, making the rot go away.

"You could do that?" questioned Shani. "If you can do that, why not do it to your wound?"

Mikael shook his head. "The only place that I can't heal it is in the wound," he said. "The rest however, I can…"

"Well… what's this… curse then?"

"Like I said, it'll rot everything that it touches." stated Mikael. "And I mean everything."

Shani gulped. "If there's an outbreak of it…"

"I doubt it."

"Well, could I?"

"Could I, what?"

"Study it." she continued. "Who knows, might be useful in the future…"

Mikael sighed. "Well I guess it's my fault for telling you that… fine, but I WILL watch you as you do your… experiment."

"Splendid, I'll take a couple of samples," said Shani. "In the meantime, let's try to clean the wound once again…"

"It's useless Shani, I told you-"

"But it's not healthy to keep it unclean like that." she insisted sternly, pushing him to sit once more, before dragging a stool to sit beside him.

Mikael clicked his tongue. "Fine, do whatever you want."

Shani hummed, and started to get to work. She brought a lot of cloth and Dwarven spirit to the table. She soaked the cloth to the spirit, and started cleaning.

"So, where will you go after this?" asked Shani curiously.

"Claim the money from the army." shrugged Mikael. "Then rent a room for a couple of nights…"

"You don't have a place to stay?" questioned Shani, surprised.

"Well, yeah, I just arrived in Oxenfurt two days ago," said Mikael casually.

"Where did you sleep yesterday then?"

"Oh, I slept on an alley near the square." answered Mikael, surprising Shani. "I slept at the tavern for a while, before the owner kicked me out."

"Well, you have a place to stay after this?" questioned Shani.

"Like I said, I'll claim the money, and rent a room for a couple of days."

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"The Army office is closed during this time." informed Shani, making Mikael cursed in his breath.

"Well, back to sleeping on the streets then."

Shani looked at his icy blue eyes, and Mikael met her hazel eyes. She then said flatly. "Why don't you stay here, at my place?"

Mikael was surprised. "What? Are you sure? I mean… you just met me this morning…"

"It's alright, plenty of patients usually stay here for the night." shrugged Shani.

"Well, I'd rather not use the patient bed…"

"You can use the chair," said Shani, pointing at a long wooden chair.

"That looks uncomfortable…"

"Or you can sleep with me." teased Shani, making Mikael raise his eyebrows.

"You're joking… right?"

"I am." giggled Shani. "Anyway, it's fine if you don't want to, though I won't charge you anything if you decide to stay at my place. Besides, I could use the company."

"Okay… I feel quite uncomfortable if I stay without paying… how about I'll do something for you?"

Shani hummed. "I'll think of something…"

As time went on, they didn't talk for a while, the sun kept coming down, the sun rays starting to disappear, and Shani kept cleaning his wound over and over again until the cloth ran out, making Shani quite annoyed.

Mikael chuckled. "I told you, it's useless."

Shani sighed. "I'll find something to cover it up that'll last longer than bandages." she said.

Mikael hummed, and then thought of something, which made his neck snap to Shani instantly. "Wait, you're not going to charge this, are you?"

"Honestly Mikael, it's fine." shrugged Shani. "You saved my life, I should at least do something for you."

"No wait, I'll pay you later–"

"I insist," said Shani. "Like I said, you saved my life."

"I didn't." refuted Mikael. "It's my job."

"Still, I feel grateful." smiled Shani. "Anyway, you should wash yourself, you can drop your clothes in that basket, I'll clean it for you."

"Well…"

"What?"

"I… don't have any more clothing…"

—

As Mikael went out of the bathroom, his clothes changed to a patient garment, he looked around, and saw Shani writing something to her journal. Her hair looked wet, as she just got out of the bathroom too, and Mikael walked to his bag, putting his things that were in his pockets to his bag.

"What are you doing?" questioned Mikael to Shani.

Shani turned and smiled at him. "Just writing a journal. Today's quite something… long paragraphs."

Mikael hummed as he walked up to her, and he read the top of today's entry. "In the morning, I was greeted by this interesting and handsome man named Mikael–"

Before he could read the rest of the entry, Shani closed her journal abruptly, and shot a dirty look at Mikael. "That's quite rude don't you think?"

Mikael just chuckled and walked to the chair he would be sleeping on.

"What do you do for fun during your travels?" questioned Shani as she turned to him.

"Fun?" said Mikael, thinking about it a little. "I'm good at Gwent, I beat every single man I encountered during my travels."

"Really?" said Shani, interested in the topic. "Well, you ever beat a woman?"

Mikael shrugged. "Never encountered a woman who played Gwent," he said. "But I'll probably beat her too."

"Oh-ho~" chuckled Shani dangerously as she opened her desk, taking out her gwent deck. "Big words you got there, Mikael."

Mikael smirked as he saw Shani taking out her deck. "Then let's play."

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