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this bad when I came in.” I explained, his eyes
grew wide and suddenly his face lit up.
     
    “ Wait here just one
second,” he said as he disappeared into the back. I looked down at
Cordillia. She was lying there almost lifeless as she looked back
at me through glassy eyes. Her teeth began to chatter as she
whispered up at me.
     
    “ I’m cold.” I took her
hand in mine but before I could say anything her eyes rolled back
into her head and she slipped away into sleep. I watched her as her
shoulder pulsed and a burning hate welled up in me. It was futile I
know but a part of me would have given anything to savor in his
death just one more time.
     
    The young man came out of the backroom
and moved around the counter to face me, his eyes flicking quickly
toward Cordillia before turning back to me.
     
    “ I called our doctor. He’s
not the best but he can stabilize her so you can make it to a
Hospital.” I nodded and lifted Cordillia into my arms as he grabbed
a set of keys from behind the counter and led me out of the store.
We walked around back to a small empty parking lot and it took me a
moment to notice the black Taurus parked just on the other side of
a row of small dumpsters.
     
    “ We have to go there, help
me get her in and ill drive you.” He opened the back passenger door
and moved aside as I lowered her into the backseat being as gentile
as I could with her head. He slammed the door shut and walked
around the front without a word. I climbed in as he was buckling
his seat belt and before I could get mine one we were off down the
road as fast as we could go.
     
    The ride was short. Cordillia groaned
in the backseat with every bump and quick turn we took. I reached
back behind the seat and took her hand in mine. “It’s okay, Cordy,”
I said as assuredly as I could. I didn’t believe it, not fully
anyway but I had to make her believe. We pulled onto another dirt
road and just half a mile up the narrow trail lay a small wooden
cabin that seemed somehow to be untouched my time and circumstance.
An old man stood out front waiting for us with a smile on his face
and a certain sense of tranquility in his presence.
     
    He was older. The lines in his face a
testament to his age. His gray hair was tied back in a thick braid
and he looked stronger than a man his age should. He wore an
oversized red shirt over blue jeans and brown boots, his appearance
screamed of a simpler life, one I would have to remember to try
when things weren’t so dire. I climbed out of the tiny car and
almost immediately felt as if I had stepped into another
world.
     
    The cabin was surrounded by a thick
nest of trees, birds sang in the distance and it was all I had to
pull my attention away from the beauty around us as Marcus opened
the door and helped me to lift my sister out of the backseat and
into my arms. I kicked the door shut and a shudder ran through me
as I watched the small man jog toward the doctor and whisper
something into his ear. I couldn’t tell what was said but the old
man answered him with an inquisitive nod as I began to walk toward
them, shrugging off the nagging sense of doubt that nipped at my
heels.
     
    We were literally in the middle of
nowhere with some medicine man and I had to admit I was a little
more than skeptical leaving my sisters life in this man’s hands. I
wanted a doctor but what else could I do.
     
    He gazed into my eyes and I couldn’t
be sure, maybe it was the fear but I could have sworn he saw right
though me.
     
    Without a word he led me up the front
steps past a rather tired looking old bloodhound and into the
house. As soon as we stepped in, the smell of baking bread hit me
in the face and something much fainter followed close behind. I
took a whiff of the air and realized quickly that it smelled like
the woods around us. I was sure it was whatever he was planning on
treating her with and I only hoped to God it worked.
     
    He led me into a small living room and
I placed Cordillia