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The Varian doctor smiled at Mina's sudden return kiss, but it was not enough to calm his worries yet. His stomach was still turning inside out at the thought of what could be happening right now. But like he tried to instill in her, there is hope somewhere. After the rain, the sun will rise. 

His hailstorm of thoughts were immediately cut off and suppressed the moment Shehzadi Munir arrived. While Mina quickly snapped back to her normal public self, Munir was rather less so. He was a very courteous he would not deny it, but there's something hidden in the formality that John could read, like black lines in the middle of a classified documents. What could that be about?

[color=5486ae]"Your Highness, Lady Blackwood is alright now. She just needs some rest."[/color] John stood up and crossed his arms behind his back formally, maintaining the professional image that he was very accustomed to towards the royals. [color=5486ae]"I will take that into consideration, thank you."[/color] He nodded to Mina as he took the blood sample from her hands. Then the two of them left back to Mina's quarter, but not before the Shehzadi giving him a few words of appreciation.

[color=5486ae]"It is my pleasure to serve. I am glad to see Mina has a calm and caring friend to look after her."[/color] Was it intentional that he addressed Lady Blackwood that way, it was difficult to know. 

He left the room shortly afterwards as well, letting the servants do their thing. His mind now turned to the blood sample that he had on hand. Drop of similar substance huh? Well to actually take a look and do that, he would need a microscope, and not many were bringing them along in this trip, including himself as well. He did not expect this to be such a weird trip already from day two. The only people whom he knew would bring microscopes were the senior councils that were already getting ready to leave for Varian in the evening, as they tended to bring their research with them. Thankfully, there was one particular person who would not be going back to Varian, at least for the time being. 

[color=5486ae]"Alina?"[/color] John knocked on the door, and a quiet sound of chair sliding slightly on the floor was heard. Not long after, the door opened to a brown curly haired woman of over half a decade older than he was. 

[color=bc8dbf]"Ah John, come in."[/color] Alina, or rather Dr. Alina Zinchenko, politely invited him into her room, which seemed to be custom configured more like a hybrid between her office and a bedroom. "What has brought you over today?"

[color=5486ae]"I need a microscope."[/color] John stated, holding the blood sample in his hand clearly for her to see. 

[color=bc8dbf]"Hmm alright. Who is that for?"[/color] She replied, raising her head a little.

[color=5486ae]"It's for Lady Blackwood, but I can't really say much else. She requested discretion."[/color] John replied. 

[color=bc8dbf]"Well, if it's from you, then I suppose it should be alright."[/color] Alina said, as she reached her hands over to grab the microscope, then stood up from her chair. [color=bc8dbf]"Let me know when it's done ok?"[/color] She said concisely then walked over to the door and closed it. The Kolonivkan doctor gently bowed before sitting down on the chair with the blood sample. As per procedures, he used a tube to take a small sample out into a flat pane of glass before putting it beneath the lens. 

His eyes neared the sample. And hitting him was a rather worrisome scene. 

The red blood cells. They're dying. Fast.

That explained a lot about his ailments, sickness and fatigue he had been having recently. There was nothing to carry the nutrients around. But why? It was not really something too special of a conclusion, what he wanted to know more would be what could be causing all this. How was his diet, sanitary conditions, or what kind of illnesses he had before all this happened. Because if this isn't fixed soon enough, there is a likely chance he would succumb shortly. 

He would make a note to inquire Mina more on that, but there was one more thing that she mentioned: to put other blood in his blood. It's a little awkward to be doing this, but he'd have to steal a little from Alina. He saw the other blood sample tray that she had and took a clean tube and extracted a tiny tiny bit, unnoticeable without measurements, and dropped them onto the sample under the lens. 

[color=5486ae]"What the hell..."[/color] 

Already, the blood sample turned a shade of red brighter than before. Noticeably too, which is eyebrow raising to say the began to multiply. It was actually multiplying. [color=5486ae][i]'Wait, multiply?'[/i][/color] How was that even possible?! From another person's blood?!

His head stumped on his hands. [color=5486ae]"What kind of vampiric nonsense is this?"[/color] He muttered out upon the discovery. In the years he had worked with medicine, this was the first time ever he had seen two blood samples combining to generate red blood cells. This under anyone would have been an incredible thing to witness as any researcher would pound on this opportunity to study this weird effect. Perhaps it would be revolutionary even. Potential cure of blood cell production by simply transplanting? However, he remembered his promise to Mina to keep this discreet, so he would keep this under the rug for now. 

But really, what the hell did he just saw?