Dream Love : Dream Land

"Sorry I'm late." Mia said to Jieun with her apologetic face.  She was actually getting ready earlier, but suddenly her stomach hurt so bad and that was the reason why she was late to arrive in the village.

She sighed a little while getting there after her ears heard the noise from the villagers accusation and screaming. But here they are making a grand entrance all of the sudden.

"It's okay. The important thing is you're here now." Jieun said with relief smile.

"Nothing happens on the road right?" Ethan ask Mia in his concern voice.

"No. Its just stomachache." Mia said while grinning.  Make Ethan smile in amuse there.

"Beth, is that really you?" One of the villagers asked as he approached the woman slowly to take a closer look.

Everyone in the village already knew that Beth's condition had been very bad before. No one believed that the woman would be healthy again like this and could even talk then. Everyone has given up.

Ben turned to his mother's back so that the villagers could clearly see his mother's condition, holding the wheelchair to replacing Mia's place earlier.

"Yes, this is me." Beth said even though her conversation was a bit unclear because her mouth was just about to heal. But still, all the villagers can hear her voice there and understand it then. 

"As you know, a couple days ago I was on the brink of death. But this person here. The princes and princess help me to recover when I never thought that I can.  When I also give up on myself." Beth added. Starting her story.

"I know we are fond of our own tradition, believing in the shaman, but this shaman is not real at all.  Not like the shaman that we all knew.  This shaman, is cheating on us just to get our money."

"How do you know that Beth? You can't just accuse the shaman without any  proof." Another villager said. 

"I may not be able to provide any proof to be show to all of you, but, lets look back for a while. I was healthy, suddenly got rash in my skin after work. I went to see the shaman, he give me a medicine but when I started to get better, I become more sick. Also, after the ritual, I got even worse and started to see things. If you think clearly, those who went to ritual is the one that getting worse and lying in the house with the praying paper.  Am I right? " Beth asked. The villagers there began to nod and talk to each other.

"While we are the one that spent the most money for the ritual, but we end up to die first. Meanwhile, those who did not see the shaman because cannot afford it, only experienced itching and mild sickness.  They did not end up being abandoned in the dark cold bedroom, left to die. Don't you feel weird about that?  Even a little?"  Beth feel a bit emotional now as she just realize how lucky she is.  If only her son didn't send a report to the royal...  If only the royal didn't come to help...  She probably not breathing anymore. 

"Just look at me now. I can get better after receiving treatment and I really hope all of you will do this treatment too. I don't want any of our friends and family to die in vain anymore." Beth added again.

At the time, Jieun approached Beth and held her shoulder.  Act of gratitude there. 

"Thank you." She said, before facing all the villagers to say what is in her mind. 

"If you don't believe in me, in us, it's okay, but please believe in Beth. She is your family and friend. I won't force you all, but anyone who wants to be treated please raise your hand and anyone who doesn't want it can go do your own activities and I hope you who do not want to be treated do not interfere with the process.  We are here to help." Jieun said.

"This treatment does not mean that you will be healthy instantly. Its like a war. But, I promise all of you, this war even its take some time, it will reach the end. It will not last long.  So, who wants to be treated?" Jieun raise her hand to show an example.

After a while she smiled triumphantly as finally everyone raised their hands except two people that refuse to see her eyes.  A young married couple.  Jieun decide to talk to them later to know their reason but first, she need to get started before anyone change their mind.  Who knows right? 

"Lets get started."  Jieun said in high spirit.

After Eun-Woo performing 'rejuvenate', the whole village was wet with rain in about 5 minutes. They can clearly see the difference in the village now. All the brown dust in the buildings, houses, seats, streets as well as their gardens vanishes instantly. The stench was still there, but not so stinging that they did not have to wear a face mask at that time.

They made two large open tents in the village. One tent for Jieun to treats those who are having a bad symptoms and another for those who are not too bad. All the people that were locked inside the room with praying paper are now out and placed in the tent while they clean and disinfect all the inside house from any bacteria.

Healthy men in there now helping Eun-Woo and Ethan build a fort at the foot of the mountain where there is a lot of garbage there that Syaoran and Ray discover before.  So that the river does not contaminate by those, before they deal with the who cause it later on and clean it up fully.

How shocked the villagers were to see the filth that had taken place there.  They said they never went there anymore because the shaman order them to not to.  They did not expect this kind of things to be happen at all.

While Mia helps Jieun manage those with mild symptoms while Jieun manages those with relatively severe conditions.  Only after each house is disinfected and all the items inside are also clean, then Jieun asks the people there to move her patients back into their respective rooms as they are just lying on blankets in the tent due to lack of facilities. But as she does the job fast everything is going smooth.

All the villagers total is 250 people, 50 with serious condition, mostly elderly and minors, while the 120 is mild in various ages and the others have no symptoms. The one that has no symptom majority of it is young people in adolescent environments where their antibodies are quite strong perhaps.

Although the village is small, the number of the residents seems to be quite a lot make Jieun felt a bit tired now.  But she will not stop until everything is settled down. It will get hard to make a treatment  if the shaman creates chaos there later after realizing what happened. So she needs to settle today, even though it's already late at night. 

After finishing with severely symptoms patients, Jieun also manages patients who have fewer symptoms. Helping Mia. She also gives some lecture to the villagers on how to clean the wound area, how to apply the medicine and so on so that they can do it themselves after this.

She also explained to the families of those who were seriously ill there, ways to manage them and so on. Because she won't always be here. Also she just got two hands and its not quite handful to manage all. So she need all help that she can get.  But, she still, monitor them from time to time.

When it was all over, they open pitched their tents with the intention of returning to their place. Only at this time, Jieun can breathe a sigh of relief and begin to feel tired all over her body.  She is now just waiting for Eun-Woo and Ethan to finish arranging the tent before going home together.

"Oh, right!"

While massaging herself, Jieun just remembered the two people who hadn't raised their hands earlier. She tried to observe the area with the intention of finding their faces. Most of the villagers have already started going into their houses to rest.

Jieun sigh in defeat now. A little disappointed there, but suddenly a voice greeted her from behind.

"I'm sorry Your Highness for bothering you right now, but... Can we talk to you now?" The wife said.

That, the young married couple that she is trying to find! Jieun face, then a little glowing with joy.

"Yes of course. I actually wanted to talk to both of you before, but I didn't see you." Jieun tell them honestly.

"My name is Jenny and this is my husband, Akira. We actually..." Jenny glanced at her husband. Both wearing a some kind of depressing face there.

"We are finished." Ethan said to Jieun now. Signifies that it's time for them to went home.

"Wait!" Jieun said without looking at Ethan direction.

"Are you both sick?" She asking because both of them didn't check up with her earlier.

"We are just fine, only rash on our palms." Jenny told, but then her face turned murky and started crying there.

Akira, her husband also seems like to hold back his feeling there. Don't want to cry. Probably because of the burden as a husband.

Ethan approaches Jieun to hear what they are saying, then, Eun-Woo and Mia come there as well.

"We need your help." Akira finally said those words..  And Jieun know it well, this can't be good.