For the next few days, I wasn’t allowed to leave my room under the strict orders of Lux. He wanted me to recover properly, and going to combat training could risk tearing my wounds back open again. Healer Hayes still came to my room during that time and treated me for my chronic poisoning, but aside from him, I saw no one else, not even Lux.
After three days, I was granted permission to complete simple exercises with Miranda and Desmond, who had finally returned, but I couldn’t push myself too much.
Once finished with those, I went to treatment and then back to my room to rest. With the way things were going, I was sure I was going to end up losing any muscle mass I had managed to gain. But even if I tried to argue that, I knew that Lux wouldn’t budge.
It was only at the end of a week o
