The next day at breakfast table, I saw Mrs. Ivory, and Mr. Malhotra glaring at me, and they eyes were crystal hard, Mr. Malhotra asked, "Doctor, do you see any progress." I looked at both of them, and turned at Mr. Malhotra and replied, "There are some progresses, but it will be too early to comment, rest assured, her bodily functions are working." He shook his head, and Mrs. Ivory chimed in, "Doc, I shouldn't be saying sorry, but I am sorry, as I was rude on you, but we don't want our privacy to be invaded." She had a disapproving looks, I took a breath and replied, "No, Mrs. Ivory, I apologise for the hassle caused to you due to me, and for the chiding, it doesn't affect me, as I am a thickest skinned guy, and sentiments are trash for me, this is one of my qualities which make me an unemotional doctor."

They stared at me with blank expression, and they looked at each other. Mr. Malhotra uttered in serious tone, "Doc, your appearance is like a simple man, but you have a blunt tongue, I guess." A thin line of smile appeared on my face, and somewhere deep in my heart, I was blaming them for the pathetic condition of Candice, so that's the reason, I resort to be blunt to them. I replied, "Definitely Sir, I take it as a compliment, because being blunt will make us evade from trashy emotions, and that I guess this is a best way to be ethical. " They gave me a sombre look, but my eyes met them unflinchingly, they took their eyes off me and retired to their work.

However, deep in my heart, I knew that I was emotional for Candice, and I couldn't see her in this position, as still deep in my heart I loved her. I examined her again, while she was slumbering, her temperature was normal, and her blood pressure, and pulse rate were normal, she opened her eyes slowly, and glared at me. Candice smiled at me, her lips were dark but still her smile was beautiful, reminding me of yesteryears, but she doesn't remember me. I had a curiosity in my mind, as Mrs. Ivory informed that Candice wakes at 3.00 and then go wild, but I didn't experience it. I thought to stay awake tonight, and so I slumbered the whole day. As the darkness invaded the sky, I got up from my bed, getting ready for a new adventure. I sat on the study table noting down the observation which I did on Candice, about the peculiar event on previous night. At the back of my head, I knew that there is something peculiar or mysterious happening inside her body, I was sceptical about Mrs. Ivory and Mr. Malhotra, but I didn't want to jump in the soup.

There was something in this unnerving house waiting to get unveiled. This skin-crawling incident will make a crucial turn in my life.

After having my dinner, I informed, Mrs. Ivory and Mr. Malhotra, that Candice would be under my observation the whole night. However, somewhere my intuition was to take this step, albeit it seems easy but this night will be precarious, Candice is fragile but she had an unusual and arduous illness.

I assured that I will not enter any rooms in that house, and also I don't want to get into their morbid business. After a while, I entered Candice room, I opened my briefcase and started examining her health while she was in slumber. I was mortified, as she didn't recognise me, however, that was a blessing in disguise or else her family life would be in tantrums. I did her checkups and found her normal, but her skin was arid weirdly, it seemed that she didn't have any liquid intakes since years.

I applied some drops of sanitizer on a towel, and rubbed the area near nostrils and mouth, I applied another drops on the fresh side of the towel, and rubbed on her arms and her toes, so there shouldn't be any chance of germs accumulating on her. I took a vial which would maintain the liquidity in her body, I injected the syringe in her body, and in few minutes, I saw her skin was gradually improving. I looked at the time it was around 9pm in my watch, and after two hours, I injected a tiny amount of morphine in her body, so that she could feel calmer, but this would not make her exuberant.

This was not a piece of cake, and I had to think alternate ways to make her heal or at least improve her health, and I thought to inform the police about them, when her health improves, perhaps I was biting the bullet to get her out of this hideous house, but I didn't had the intention to keep her with me after all, I don't want to break the ice. I was sitting on the chair reading medical journals, and then I was writing my accounts without cutting the corners. After a while, I checked her heart beats and pulse rates to ascertain that her body is functioning efficiently, and in a nutshell everything is normal, but still my intuition didn't agree with the medical checkups which displayed something different.

I was a pessimistic but still I saw a silver lightning in the dark clouds in this case. Albeit medical science have been drastically changing but even there are complicated diseases surging in nature, I was lost in learning medical books, while I heard the howling of jackals surging up, but I found company in their sound.