Banished Prince Charming

Saturday, 26th November 1442

Heather traversed the Dragon Boat like a professional and reached our town within an hour as she sped all the way like a speed demon from Safehaven. Luckily she was behind the wheel it else I would be taking a long time to reach our town.

A normal horse-drawn carriage would take 5 hours or so to reach the town and vice versa, but with Heather behind the wheel, she had made great progress as she was much faster than me if I were to traverse it.

That's right. It's not discriminating but Heather could really traverse the Dragon Boat very well indeed. Not only did we return back to town in the shortest time possible, but we had reached back safely in one piece...!

The moment we cleared the main entrance to our town, Heather slowed down the Dragon Boat and kept it at a minimum speed as she placed her foot on the brake pedal.

As soon as we had reached the hospital, we disembarked and quickly went up to the third floor.

All four mythical races were there in the admission ward as Aerin had been airdrop to the roof of the hospital, thanks to the VTOL ability of airship 2511 Thunder.

Aragorn was rather shaken by the injuries sustained by his only daughter but was fortunate that she had been airlifted at the hospital within the time limit of the Health Lozenges.

Once Aerin arrived in a gurney, she was attended immediately by Priestess Isabela. By this time, the Guardian had been discharged and Priestess Isabela had the knowledge on how to settle the extent of the injuries.

Aragorn had never seen the hospital before and had the first-hand experience on how the hospital looks like and how it functioned and looked like.

When he met Priestess Isabela, he was surprised to see that the main person who handles the main operations of the hospital is much younger than his daughter. He bowed slightly as Priestess Isabela was introduced to him.

She held on the arm of Aragorn and looked at him straight in the eye and informed him, "Rest easy, Great Elven King. Your daughter is in the safest hands possible and please have a seat while I see the extent of the injuries."

Aragorn could only nod his head and kept his head bowed until Priestess Isabela had left the vicinity.

I went up to him and ushered him to the waiting area where he refuses to sit but paces up and down as he was anxious to find out the outcome regards his daughter's condition.

Heather was the one who entered the operating theatre together with the anxious HRH JR and HRH Amy.

The children had regarded both Aerin and Artemis as an elder brother and sister so they were equally worried.

But thinking back at what I said regards to Aerin wanting to be in the hospital because of the food she would be served later on, brought the whole situation on a lighter side instead.

Right now, Aerin was still under surgery and it would take some time before she regained her consciousness and be brought to the recuperating ward where 8 militia invalids were still under recuperation as well.

SInce Aerin's arrival, she would be assigned to a bed nearer to the nurses' station as she was a female. This is one of the procedures of the hospital since Priestess Imelda was nursed back at her own home before when she enters a coma instead of being warded.

"Mummy, would you think Sister Aerin would be alright? Her injuries were quite serious, right? Would it be something like Brother Artemis where he had an amputated arm and it regrew back like normal within a week?

Besides, Sister Aerin had an injury that was higher than her mid-t.h.i.g.h and she would faint once more if she wakes up and looks down at her injuries."

HRH Amy was concerned about the wellbeing of Aerin as she asked about the recuperation and the progress.

Heather was rather squeamish when she tried to explain to HRH Amy about the procedures and progress but maintained her composure well under pressure.

Besides, Aerin was in the surgery ward so there was nothing for them to see at the moment and Aerin would be out of surgery once the doctors had done their best to stop any infection and bleeding.

After HRH JR and Amy heard that from Heather, they managed to calm down. They joined Aragorn at the waiting room and placed their hands behind their backs as they too paced back and forth, mimicking Aragorn, while Artemis was holding on to his mouth from laughing out loud as he watched the children's antics.

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"Phew...! This surgery is way too serious but it is not that life-threatening. At least Aerin got here sooner or else I think we may have another occupant in the furthest western area there."

"She had lost a lot of blood so the only way to get her to regain back the blood loss was for her to consume lots of liver, kidney, heart and also more green vegetables."

"Artemis, you would not be going around to amputate your limbs, would you? Besides, if you fancy having those meals, I guess Our Majesty could arrange for some accommodations for you and your Dad to stay together and have a helper to be helping you both around the area."

Priestess Isabela learnt about Aerin and Artemis being siblings and Aragorn being their father.

Due to the strict upbringing of Aragorn, there is a restriction between family and governance so basically, right now, both father and children would have to dismiss their restrictions for the time being.

After learning that the injuries that Aerin had sustained was not that serious and she had been stabilised ever since she had been admitted into the surgery room.

Aerin had to be well bandaged up before she was wheeled into the recuperation room as she had just regained her consciousness. It was fortunate that the injuries did not spread right to the upper t.h.i.g.h and had been stabilised since Aerin had been stuffed with several pieces of the Health Lozenges.

This helped to stop the spread of her injuries.

"You heard that, Aragorn? Our head of medical had advised you to stay put here and take care of your children."

"Here, in this town, I am in charge and you are to abide by my simple rules of the jungle. Hahaha."

"Here, you do not have to put on your peerage at all and do not have to think about work, alright? Don't worry about Aerin since she would be in good hands."

"We can all come in and take a look at Aerin's condition because I am sure Artemis misses being in the hospital because of the menu that would be served for Aerin, for at least 5 times a day. Hahaha...!"

I joked a bit with Aragorn and he knew that his daughter had already got out from a life-threatening situation.

Doc, Perky and Amadeus were relieved to learn about the situation as well and since this is the first time the three of them had entered this town, we arranged for someone to chaperone them around town.

The three of them heard of the plannings and were rather excited. As for Artemis, he would be glad to bring his Dad around.

The only thing is coins and only Heather holds them since it would be impossible for me to bring the coin pouches to the battlefront, innit?

I went over to Heather and asked if she brought some coins so we could hand them over to the mythical races to go around and have some sightseeing.

HRH JR and Amy heard about me asking some coins from their Mummy and they gave their coin pouches to me instead.

"Here you go, Daddy. There's more than enough for them to get what they need around our town. If there's not enough, I think the merchants would be able to extend credit to them and we would be able to pay them once they leave."

"By the way, I think we should also chaperone them since we are more acquainted with them than the ones accompanying them."

HRH JR suggested and I listened as well as fully agree to what this tiny a.d.u.l.t was trying to convey.

Besides, there is another airship that would be coming in shortly that would be carrying some load of mithril and obsidian pieces along with the kin from the wood elves adventurers.

"Amadeus, how many of your kin is arriving with the 911 Lightning? We hadn't got the time earlier to discuss and we have the accommodations ready for them in case they wanted to be on land rather than being in the orchard area behind the domain."

"Oh, don't you worry, His Majesty. The womenfolk wished to be on land and close to the crop fields that you had mentioned in the week past."

"As for us, we could be in the orchard behind the domain as you had mentioned or even the Baobab trees that are flourishing just outside of town."

"That's where we would like to be staying since we would be monitoring the town together with the rest of the soldiers of this town."

"Seems like a good idea to me. Anything that suits you would suit us fine as well. Later on, once Aerin had woken up, we would ask her how she feels and then we can inform the men to haul in the mithril and obsidian pieces down to the storage area."

"Once we have settled all the affairs before dusk, we would then be arranged for your kin to be over here, would that be alright with you?"

"Yes, His Majesty. Its fine with me since my three other leaders are over there at Hellsgate and would be following the next airship over to our place."

"I am sure the captain of the airship would not mind travelling up and down the strip to usher our kin over here in this town."

"Anything that we could do for you, we would kindly do so in order to render as much assistance to you and the folks over here."

"Alright, Amadeus. Don't think so much about the logistics over here since I would be letting the captain figure out what they need to do in the future processes."

"It would not be great for me to actually guide them on what they need to do since they already had it planned inside their heads."

"Well, we rest up a little while around here. Once Aerin had woken up from her state, we can all visit her."

I highlighted to everyone and some of the helpers had brought in some refreshments from the bakery as well as refilling the dispensing tuns with chilled fruity tea and a recently boiled one.

While the mythical races and our family were waiting for Aerin to recover, we had to recover ourselves first by gorging on some Golden Pillows that were brought in from the bakery.

The rest of the mythical creatures had their first taste of the Golden Pillows and was surprised that such a bread could be baked and with so many fillings in them as well.

Once everyone had their refreshments outside, a nurse entered our waiting room and announced that Aerin had just woken up and was attended by Priestess Isabela for the former had fainted once she saw that she had a missing leg that had been recently mangled by the three-headed hellhound.

Once we heard that, we allowed Artemis and Aragorn to visit Aerin instead, followed by the royal family.

The rest of the group would be paying Aerin a visit once she had been moved to the recuperation ward.

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