DAY 24
HOW THE FEVER CAME BACK
I woke up with a bad stomachache and I wanted to vomit. I also felt feverish, my body temperature had gone up and I started feeling chills and tremors throughout my body. I thought the snake or the fruit made me ill, or perhaps it was the water or simply the suffocating humidity caused by the rain the day before. I remembered the berries that Miwati had given me for fever so I ate two of them and I chewed one of the bitter leaves for my stomach. I looked like a cow eating leaves. While chewing, a strange thought crossed my mind: What if they were poisonous and the wizard hadn't really made peace with me? Anyway, it was too late for those speculations and I could only wait to see if they really had a healing effect or, on the contrary, the sorcerer had play
