Episode 79

As soon as the car entered the mansion, Fabian ran to the veterinary clinic.

Daisy had a bacterial infection, from which she could not recover, affecting her respiratory and nervous system.

"She was isolated from the rest, it is a highly contagious infection, maybe she didn't want to hurt her other friends," reported Sebastian, who was also at the clinic.

The veterinarian was attending to Daisy in the room set aside for contagious infections, Fabian could not go in to see her until the veterinarian gave the order.

"How is she?" Fabian asked, fearful for his dear friend.

"There is no response to the treatment so far."

He was so lost in seeking the meaning of the marks, in why he was here, in the worry of being relevant in this story; that he forgot about his dear friend, Daisy, she was alive, always accompanying him from the beginning.

Just living.

Blaming oneself is the human response when we know that our actions hurt someone else, Fabian felt guilty for having neglected Daisy, if he had paid attention, if he had taken better care of her, this would not have progressed this far.

Vadim, who was coming behind Fabian, entered the clinic. The veterinarian came out of the infection room at that moment.

Fabian hurried to ask about Daisy's condition.

"She is stable for the moment," he said, "It is an infection that occurs mostly in young ducks, it is a strange case that it has manifested in a duck of her age, she should have died days ago due to the aggressiveness of the infection, but she has endured it until now."

"... Is there anything that can be done?" Fabian asked.

The veterinarian shook his head, "I am very sorry, there is no favorable response to the treatment, she is only clinging to life with her last strength, she will not make it past a week."

A week.

Fabian entered the room where Daisy was, she looked so small inside the cage, surrounded by blankets and connected to an intravenous line in her wing, it looked painful.