392 Grieving Losses

"Shifu!" Ah Jin jumped to attention when Doctor Lou suddenly settled next to her on her tree branch. 

"What is the situation here?" He gloomily asked as he scanned the tents in the clearing, "Are we close?"

Ah Jin knit her brows, how was she supposed to know whether they were close or not when she had no idea where they were going?

She was also curious about some other things but she seriously gave her report, "I don't know...It's been stagnant the last few weeks. The Empress dowager has been having bouts of fits, sometimes she no longer wishes to continue the journey but the monk and her eunuch always manage to convince her to continue. But there are times when this mood persists for days, at one time, we stayed in a city for one month while she cooled her head. There are also times when she sleeps for days, other times not at all. She seems quite troubled...and confused..."