It took two more days of grueling uncertainty before the physicians determined that Bai Ruyi was out of the woods.
Kazane had sent someone discreetly to inform Qing Xue of this good news.
He too had come down with a bad fever. After that time he had spent outside in the cold, this did not surprise Kazane. But unknown to her, what really did him in was the hours he had spent afterward, having had no sleep and taking no sustenance, finishing the care he had begun giving his and Bai Ruyi’s garden days earlier.
He went back to his quarters in the barracks when he was done, and he had been staying there the whole time, telling no one of his condition.
It was only after receiving Kazane’s note that he took out the medicinal plants and herbs he had preserved and began nursing himself back to
