welcome to my slow and treacherous walk home. it was more like a limp and drag as some time through said walk. the healing magic stopped helping me. I wasn't fully healed either, it seems, with exercise, the pain became apparent! my thirty-five or so minute walk turned out to take hours. one or two just to get to miss Wrigley's, who said a carriage stopped by with that cleric and a Grandmagister.
she saw me screaming.
" Oh dear boy, what the hell happened, dear boy!?"
she gathered some food and a few ointments, which helped me to get up with that. I told her nothing before I bid her farewell and hurried to the infirmary that was another hour, which was getting easier. Although I was in so much pain, I couldn't focus, so it was not like I was going to be using mana any time soon.
I fell so many times that my knees were bleeding. when I got into the infirmary, the nurses screamed at me for ruining the floor. that was blood and dirt, not my fault they are naturally messy.
I don't think I said that out loud as my conscience faded. I could have swore up and down. I heard lumina screaming at me, but she hated me, so why would she call me brother or care? That's it. I must be dying from internal damage!?
that was my last thought before darkness took over. when I thought that was all... seems the universe had other plans. when I woke up, I was asleep how I knew this was because when I woke up, I was floating in a small Black room with small grey windows. looking out into the real world, I could see myself in this bed asleep, just me alone in a room.
" Yep, that's it I died..."
" No, you are alive. This is called a soul dream. I am unsure about why we are here together, but who am I to question the universes idea. any thoughts?"
I looked at the figure with no face, noticing his mouth appeared and moving into an upward arch.
" Nope, that's creepy."
" That's irrelevant, but you will eventually wake up because if you are talking to me. then that means you are just in a Chaotic state. But don't worry, you are too shallow in this realms touch to be stuck here. although wild thought, what if I marked you, hmm? accept me, and I'll heal that soul completely. no conditions or strings. this time, that is..."
he seemed to be Hinting at something as his body twitched. his hand kept flickering and pointing at a corner of the room. at first, I had thought I had no power here, but after some focus and thought I was able to move, walking to the corner, he pointed. I saw a figure glaring at him from the shadow, but it didn't take one second to look at me. Even though I knew its anger boiled over, he knew I was here, but it burnt with rage, which made it not care about me or anything else but its plan for revenge.
" His willingness was top tier until his dues came. He asked for me, and I set a price. Now he is mine to toy with not that insolent woman how I see using his body and soul through till the deadline is settled."
he moved quickly as his hand waved across my face.
" Don't worry over it. I will make it seem like that sad wretch of a master healed you, but like I said, free this once, ask me for help, and I set a price!"
he looked at his hand and then at the corner.
" Hmm, not much else you can do, but I hope you pray to the lords you know seeking help. For I am coming to claim the universe, bringing chaos as I burn it, melding it in my image!!"
he seemed to be talking to me and past me at the same time as I felt my body sinking into the black ground.