"Huh... Huh... Huh..."
In the room, Delphi, who was resting alone on the bed, couldn't help but breathe heavily.
On the night that Harry and Luna left the Burrow, Delphi, who had been injured due to being involved in the battle between two demons, suddenly developed a high fever.
In fact, when she woke up early this morning, she didn't feel it was serious. Due to the original injury and fatigue, in this case, it is actually normal for the body to feel warm.
What's more, she is still just a Muggle now.
However, after using her injury as an excuse to continue resting in the room for a while, she only felt that her forehead was getting hotter and hotter.
Fortunately, at least the sudden fever did not seem to affect her thinking, and her consciousness was still awake.
"Sure enough, during the time when you were unconscious in the woods, did something go wrong?"
Because at this time, Delphi couldn't figure out any clues about his current state. So after thinking about it for a while, she finally pinned the most likely source of her fever on her previous encounter with the two demons.
It's a pity that because I was briefly unconscious for a moment at that time, I still couldn't figure out any answer to this question that could relieve my doubts.
"Speaking of... phew... when was the last time you got sick?"
Since there was nothing gained after thinking about it, Delphi had no choice but to lie on the bed, looking at the ceiling and thinking feebly - anyway, she needed to rest in the past two days. In addition to herself, plus the people here Everyone is actually very considerate of each other, and no one will criticize or complain.
"Forget it, what happened in the past... I can't tell the truth from the truth anymore." She tugged on the edge of the quilt and whispered to herself again with her eyes half-opened.
Suddenly, there was a faint sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the door, which brought her attention back to where it had wandered.
Not long after, the footsteps suddenly stopped again.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk."
Then there was a knock on the door—it should be the door next door. Delphi remembered that it was Hannah and Luna who lived there these days. But Luna had gone back to France yesterday, and now Hannah was the only one in the room.
Sure enough, right after Delphi, he heard Neville's voice ringing in the corridor.
"Hannah...it's dawn, it's time to get up."
"Already up! Come out immediately, wait a moment."
Because Luna's daily schedule has always been accurate, and she also wakes up early in the morning, she usually wakes Hannah up together. There was suddenly no active alarm clock today, and Hannah seemed to wake up a little late.
As for Neville... was it his turn to be on watch last night? Delphi didn't pay much attention.
After staying for a while, Hannah left the room and went downstairs with Neville who was waiting outside the door. The surroundings became quiet again. Although the window outside the window is no longer as dark as at night due to the arrival of morning, the heavy leaden clouds make it impossible to get any daylight in the UK.
As time passed little by little, Delphi only felt that sleepiness gradually began to surge again.
"Huh...huh..."
However, the feeling of weakness and chest tightness caused by the fever seemed to make her somewhat unclear whether it was the Sandman or something else that made her gradually sleepy and trance-like.
Nowadays, when all kinds of weird things can happen, when he thought that this inexplicable fever might cause him to be unable to sleep, Delphi opened the quilt with all his strength.
"Well."
At that moment, the cool air caressed all over the body, finally temporarily driving away some sleepiness. Delphi pursed her lips, slowly pushed her exhausted body to sit up, and then sighed slightly.
"What on earth is... what's going on?" She smoothed her hair along the roots that were slightly moistened with sweat. When the hair strands slipped between them, only a dry touch was left behind. "Among the demons... Huh?" … Are there any individuals who can cause fever?”
When it comes to knowledge about demons, she probably knows the most here, but even so, what she knows is actually very limited.
The unknown often becomes the source of uneasiness.
"Dad...where are you?"
Delphi's consciousness gradually became blurred.
"Squeak-"
She didn't know how much time had passed, but she felt that it was getting harder and harder to stay awake. And at this moment, the door was opened from the outside.
"Delphi? Delphi, are you okay? Delphi?"
Hearing someone running in from the door, Delphi was still thinking in her hazy consciousness that she originally didn't want others to know, but she was discovered after all.
"Is it Miss Aibo...?"
"Ah! Yes, it's me... Ah! Delphi, why are your hands so hot?"
Hannah's voice came faintly in her ears, as if she was very close, but also very far away. Even though Delphi was vaguely conscious at this time, he still instinctively realized that his current state was indeed not good.
"I... don't know either," she tried her best to open her eyes and looked at the blurry figure of Hannah in front of her and whispered softly, "Please help me call Miss Geofeiin... If it's her, maybe she can... see Come up with something.”
Delphi was breathing heavily while talking, making people feel as if they would faint completely in the next second. But she relied on her strong willpower to hold on just on the edge of coma.
On the other side, after hearing Delphi's words clearly, Hannah nodded quickly and said:
"Okay, I'll go right away! Just hold on!"
After she helped Delphi lean against the bed, Hannah quickly ran out of the room and rushed downstairs through the corridor - she was originally going to come up and ask everyone to go downstairs for breakfast. , but now, a breakfast or something is obviously not that important.
"... Neville, don't eat yet! Go and call Miss Geofine back... There seems to be something wrong with Delphi's health!"
"What? Okay... Fortunately, no one needs to run too far today."
The conversation between Hannah and Neville could be faintly heard downstairs, but it was obvious that Delphi could no longer hear such a small sound. She just leaned against the brass railing at the head of the bed and swallowed a mouthful of saliva that didn't exist while panting.
The heat in her body made her throat so dry that it felt like it was about to smoke.
"Um... Phew... Thirsty, water." She murmured vaguely, "It seems, it seems... I have felt like this before? When was that...?"