"For today is all" After lots of discussion about things related tax to the border with is neighbors and others mather that he needs to know about the territory. After all that Domeric was feeling tired. He raises his hand scratching his chest.
"By the way send someone to prepare me a hot bath, " Domeric said looking to Tybald as tiredness was writing all over his face and getting up a the same time.
" Yes my lord" Tybald said he take a bow to leave. The moment he turns around to go Tybald start making a regret face. Tybald is starting to thinking that Domeric seems like a gullible person.
But what makes him feel this way is not the decision that he is made by the way he treats the maester. In Tybald eyes, Domeric seems to be a bit watchful about them.
So after the meeting, Domeric walk to his bedroom unaware of Tybald thoughts.
The room contained a large bed, neatly made, two straight-backed chairs, a washstand, a bureau--with a mirror seemly about 2 meters high--and a small table. There were no drapery curtains at the dormer windows. All day sun is pouring down front the windows to the room.
"Sigh" Looking at his room Domeric was feeling a little bad, but it only last a time need to sigh. Now his bedroom is what used to belong to Roose and Bethany.
Domeric walks to the window opening it and feel the mild warm breeze but with some little thread of chill on it with some black clouds forming in the sky. Now it summers, but this kind of chill thread of air it's normal in the North. But even so is room feel hotter than the warm air blowing outside and that is doe the volcanic vent nearby that heat the castle.
But the Domeric attention it is not on the weather or the room temperature but to the garden that could be seen from his room.
The garden is not big, about 10 sqr meters or so. There are various flowers ranging front the red blood to the blue sky that Domeric could not identify and a middle there is a lot of little pounds and some with some little fish's popping pop from time to time and with some seem to evaporate under the hot weather.
But Domeric was not focused on flowers and ponds but the five-pointed leaves and the sap of blood-red, while the smooth bark on their wide trunks and wood are bone white this garden is the godswoods. He was looking at the Weirwoods or heart trees how it is called in the north but this one did have a face carved on it but a something resembling an eye.
"Rrr" Domeric could swear that every time he cast his eyes on the tree his body would shiver. But not like if his body is been gaze by some predator but neither one of a loved one, but more like a camera vision just watching in disinterest.
'Tsk,... time will come day , some, shit , better ...try not funny " Domeric somehow didn't feel right if didn't curse the tree. But he was no fool of directly saying loud, or to say the name of the one he is coursing. He even courses in a way that seems a fool thinking.
Domeric knew that probably the fact of is discomfort with the Weirwoods was the very symbol that things here are different. There is Magic around, although not the kind of ' move a finger and destroy the world' but enough to born gods out of the lands.
"Magic, hmm" He was both afraid and excited. But mostly afraid to the point of being a little paranoid about things relate to it. As he was a complete fool regarding magic. And like any normal man that fear the unknown at the same time eager for it.
"KOMKOOM" At this time came to a knock on the door releasing Domeric of his paranoid state.
"Come in" Domeric momentary gave a replay.
"My lord your bath is read" Opening the door a girl seemingly at the end of is teenagers years, she talks loud but the way she talks seems trying to control her tone around Domeric. She has a brown hair that flowed over her shoulders. Her beautiful face could be compared to few in the castle. But watch catch Domeric eyes were her round chest and big *ss ones of Domeric favorous.
"Oh Evelyn " Domeric instantly recognizes her. She is the daughter of the head maid of the castle and normally is not her that serve Domeric.
"Ok I will be there in a moment... you can go now," Domeric said and wait for her to turn around and go and then take a peek at her back.
"Tsk, tsk" Domeric shakes his head to himself he is starting to think that he is holding back too much in is manner as a lord.
Bidding farewell to Evelyn Domeric starts preparing and heading out to his bath. Out of his room four guards accompanying him. Two in front and to in the back, although he felt that was a bit much. But for him better be too much and not enough.
Arriving at the bathroom Domeric could see a bathtub made of stone enough to fit 3 people easily on it. The bathtub was completely filled with hot warm water that could be easily identified by the steam coming out of it.
"You can go, and send in the maid" Domeric turnaround and said to his guards. And the guards bow in response heading out of the bathroom.
Domeric start dressing out. After he takes his jacket and shirt he frays his chest looking at it. His chest skin looks dark red, furrowed and arid like but what is more eye catch is the scar in a web crack shape centered in his heart area.
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In the begin, he couldn't see it but after Roose death, it starts slowing grow almost filling his entire chest. He had asked it to every maester but none of them could even seem to see it in the first place. So he was a lot worried about it and he constantly asked around but nothing could be found about it. And that way he became even warier of the unknown.
"Ssss" After dressing out and enter the bathtub Domeric let a groan and relax his body completely. Domeric completely let himself of his mind enter a blank of no thoughts. The bathtub maybe is the only place he could felt so relaxed, not even when he went to sleep he felt as refresh as taking a bath.
"My lord" but not long after a maid's voice came to Domeric trough the door.
"Come in" Domeric as bit carefree as he said with a peaceful voice comparing with what he used.
When the maid enters the bathroom Domeric could see her. She seems innocent as a snowflake and with her small hand fallowing it. She had a black hair, although it was shorter than the most girls, but this only made her face cuter.
"You are you?" Of course, Domeric has not instantly caught by such beauty but warier of this girl never seen before.
"My lord I am July daughter of the of one of kitchen maid" She seems to have a bit of wit as her voice was calm but only her chin seems to blush a bit by the nake lord on the bathtub.
"..." Domeric had a faint impression that some of the maids that serve him are changed by young girls roughly his age.
"Ok you can start to do your work" Domeric chat a bit with her but eventually she starts cleaning his body. He would be a bit more paranoid about new people but the warm water seems to calm some nerves.
Domeric could feel her soft hand rubbing his back, and she seems to make every move of her soft with something in mind.
"Go get the leeches" After a while Domeric body felt that his body was rubbed enough as July seems to move her hand down someplace.
July gave a sigh so small that only she could hear it. So she went out of the room and came back with two small buckets. One of them was empty and the other was filled with leeches.
"Bring the leeches here and you can go then" After July brought the leeches Domeric immediately orders her to go.
After seeing the door close Domeric just move his hand to reach the bucket full of leeches that were placed close by and brought it even close. Inside the small bucket, Domeric could see dozens of leeches husting against each other. He then takes his hand to reach for one. The leech struggle in his hand seemly aware that food is around. Domeric places the leech in his chest while holding one end as if guiding the leech to his lunch.
Shortly after the leech had firmly bit on his chest. Then Domeric release it's tail as he looks at the leech sucking his blood. He could see that the area around where blood is being sucked his starting to lose it's dark red color. But shortly after the leech starts to tremble and it's skin turning dark red. This only last for a short time and then the leech completely stop move lifeless.
"Sigh" Domeric after seen it he sigh. He had discovered by accident this when he was leeched by the first time by maester Tybald then afterward he starts experimenting. Then he came to a simple conclusion that leech could somehow suck the 'bad blood' as he calls it out of his chest. But he didn't let anyone or do it in front of everyone because of the bizarre transformation and dead of the leeches.
He then takes the leeches out of his chest and throwing to the empty bucket closed to the leeches bucket. Then he turns his hand to grab another leech on the other bucket. Again he repeats the same process as the anterior leech.
......
"Sish" Domeric again throw the dead leech into the bucket. He could see that the small bucket was almost full as the other bucket is almost running out of leeches. See all dead leeches body on the bucket sigh. He is not sighing for pitting the leech but a relive sigh that if in his calculation the leeches suck more than 10 gram of his blood by now he would be sucked dry.
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Outside at the godswoods, the heart tree tranches start to swing as if performing some ritual.
But strangle there wasn't even a single thread of wind, contrarily anything that seems to move are the heart tree.
......
"Sigh. Enough for today" Domeric felt that today section is enough as he sees that his chest hat almost returned to his normal white brownish color but there is still the dark red dot a the center of the crack, his scar and rough skin still visible in his eyes. Although for other people they couldn't see anything.
He mentally calculates that would take almost 5-6 day till it became dark red again. Although it wasn't a permanent solution. But it was the only one he knew now as he clearly planning on finding a permanent one later.