User blog:TalonsOfRain/In The Night

You know, sometimes it's not easy being the apprentice of the greatest physician the Lost Cities know of. There's so much responsibility.The council threatening that if you don't do everything good enough, they'll banish you again. The alchemy practices, all of the memorization, being woken up at extreme hours of the night, being separated from your family. Those are just a few of my troubles.

Oh, also, I have to add the weight of being one of the most popular elves at school, just having broken up with my boyfriend of two years, lots of schoolwork, working on my Conjuring and Polyglot abilities and keeping my obsession with human trinkets a secret.

Anyone jealous of my life?

Please trade with me.

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I finally got to sleep, finally sank under the black blanket of peace and rest, finally managed to skink into the fog of unconciousness, when Elwin shook me awake with a situation. I blinked the sleep from my eyes grumpily and scowled at him.

"What?" I asked.

"Up, quick." He motioned towards an unconcious boy lying on a cot in the middle of the room. "Failed light leap. He's fading."

I was out of that bed in a flash, Conjuring up a vial of Alertness Elixir - one that I had brewed myself - and chugging it, ignoring the salty taste. My night vision clicked into place, like it did after a year of training at Exillium. Bullhorn was quiet, but he was watching the boy closely. I shook off my worry and let Elwin tell me everything.

"His name is Aro Casstellai. He was coming home from a friend's house when his nexus came off. He obviously was too excited and didn't pay enough attention to making sure he didn't fade. So now he's here." Elwin rubbed his eyes tiredly. "Get me some elixirs. You know the right ones."

I did. We needed Fade Fuel first. I snapped my fingers; calling it from the shelf on the other side of the room - I'm kinda lazy that way - and handed it to Elwin. He nodded and I kept snapping, bringing the other vials he needed. I uncorked them and he poured them into Aro's mouth.

I sighed, relieved when some of the color began to flood back into his face. His caramel skin gaining its normal sheen again. He groaned and blinked, sitting up and rubbing his head.

"Ah, ah." I motioned, wagging my finger. "Lay back down, I'm not having more complications tonight. I want to go back to sleep." I scowled at Elwin. "If I need to sedate you, I will." I warned when he didn't listen.

He huffed and fell back onto his cot. "Fine, happy?"

"Very." After Conjuring all of the empty elixir vials into the other room, where Elwin would have to deal with them, I decided to drink a sedative and lay back down. Done with drama for the remainder of the night as I sank back into that black blanket of peace and rest.