The last few weeks pass in a blurr...between weapon practice, treasure hunts, Grindstone, and dealing with the dream about Fabrellet, he should be out cold. Yet Khuj'a's words still play in his head. Patch them up well enough that they can get through the fight...don't drain you aether so much...this isn't how heal on the battlefield. Then Restless came to him and slam the crystals idea right out the window. So he sat while Kit rested in the book. What had gone wrong...he was sure the formula had been right? He was sure it was work...until he realize that he didn't calculate the aether that the crystal had to draw. He was right back at the starting point.
"No...no...no..." he said, crumbling a piece of paper with each no. Everything...all his calculations...he was still using his aether. He wanted to scream at this point. "Nothing is working...everything I've try...it still not working."
Kit's sleepy aether touch his mind. 'It work for right now,' she said. 'Get some sleep and speak to the others tomorrow. They should have a clearer idea on how to go about this.'
John sigh, standing up from the desk. He was so drain, both mental and physically. No matter how he look at it...the elementals were going to win. He look at the trembles in his left hand and wanted to laugh in bitterness over it. It was just a matter of time now.
'John,' Kit said again, as he move over to the bed. 'Khuj'a was just helping...'
John drop down onto it. "I don't get it, Kit. I try to explain why the Grindstone was set up the way it was...yet it felt like he threw everything I learn from Warren back at my face."
'I'm sure once he speak to Warren, he'll understand.'
He drop back on the bed, pulling his feet up, and kicking off his shoes. "I don't know if he will come back and we're so task on healers there." He hadn't felt drain while he had been using the crystals but he can feel the pull on his aether now. "I feel like I'm letting them all down...because I can't stand the elementals and they can't stand me."
She said nothing back to that statement. He didn't know if it was approval or disapproval over his statement. "Raimy and his wanting me to go to a brothel. How could he even suggest that as a good idea...especially with Lady Amaya in the room." His eyes were starting to drift close. "why must Sir Khit'to always push," he yawns, "alcohol on me...stomach still turn from feel of fried Dodo..."
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The darkness in his parents room was even thicker then usually as he found himself in his ten year old body. The fever had grown more, his whole body shaking from it and the chill that encircle him. He struggle as he sat up...finding Kit book in his hands. He waited...watching to door open as Fabrellet step into the room. He watch the elezen smirk at him. "So, you think that you can fight me, curse one." He pause, frowning as the miqo'te stared at him, unnerving him slightly. "What, no fear now that you accept your fate?"
"No..." John whisper. "I challenge you to honorable combat...in two week time." He watch Fabrellet step back.
"You...you challenge me...who has the backing of the elementals."
"Yes, to honorable magical combat." He sat his hand on Kit's book. "In two weeks, we will face each other in the waking world. Whoever wins...will take the other's life. That is if you and your elementals masters are not afraid to face me as myself instead of in this sick weak body."
"Two weeks...and what is to stop you from running...not that I won't find you if you did."
"I have business that I must settle here. I won't run even after that. There is a set of caves up from Camp Black Brush. We will face each other near Cutter's Cry." He waited to see what he would do. It was a risk but he would take it.
Fabrellet face look thoughtful. "No one to help you...and once I slay you, the elementals will bless me even more." He move to put the dark dagger away. "Then I'll accept your challenge..." John only has a moment to see something dark and sinister sweep over Fabrellet's face. "No...you will diesss," he/they said, leaping for John.
Kit's book was open and he launch Bio at Fabrellet/elementals? with Ruin following after. A blue gold light launch itself from beside him and tackle it/herself into Fabrellet, throwing him back through the door.
****
John grasp awake, only to curl around his left arm as not only trembles ran through it but something dark and cold try to surface. He ignore Kit's panic cries in his head as he force himself to sit up. He pull the robe down and he could see now the tendrils of void taint running outward from his arm. "Gods, do the elementals hate me so that they turn to the void to get rid of me completely?"
Howl, he had to find Howl before there was nothing else left of him. He stumble over to the desk, "Paper...ink...got to make this right...not sure if I have two weeks..." He began to write or more like rammble into the letter. He wrote that Sis...no he didn't know that he had started calling Sei sister. Wrote that Sei said that she hadn't seen him for a while. He apologies for everything that he had put him, Warren, and Sei though. He told him to please come home....and he didn't remember what else he wrote...that he knew he had lost against them. Yes, he knew he was going to lose but not before he made sure that Howl was back with those that care about him.
He seal the letter, stumbling out to the first postmoogle that he saw. "Please...you have to find a Seeker by the name of Howl," he said, pushing it into the hands of the moogle. "Tell him that it's from John Waterstrike...that it's urgent and he has to read it."
"Are you alright, kupo? You look too pale."
"I'm fine right now...but you have to make sure he gets this. Please hurry." John watch the postmoogle nod and flutter away. He look at the still dark sky. "Time...got to pack...going to take all day to search Thanalan. I swear Howl...I'll find you." He stumble back toward the inn, throwing gear into a pack. He headed for the gate to Western Thanalan calling Safire to him. "Please behave...I don't have to time to fool with them. Kit, keep your nose up for his aether."
'You need to see Titor and the others...they can help.'
"I will...after we find Howl."
"No...no...no..." he said, crumbling a piece of paper with each no. Everything...all his calculations...he was still using his aether. He wanted to scream at this point. "Nothing is working...everything I've try...it still not working."
Kit's sleepy aether touch his mind. 'It work for right now,' she said. 'Get some sleep and speak to the others tomorrow. They should have a clearer idea on how to go about this.'
John sigh, standing up from the desk. He was so drain, both mental and physically. No matter how he look at it...the elementals were going to win. He look at the trembles in his left hand and wanted to laugh in bitterness over it. It was just a matter of time now.
'John,' Kit said again, as he move over to the bed. 'Khuj'a was just helping...'
John drop down onto it. "I don't get it, Kit. I try to explain why the Grindstone was set up the way it was...yet it felt like he threw everything I learn from Warren back at my face."
'I'm sure once he speak to Warren, he'll understand.'
He drop back on the bed, pulling his feet up, and kicking off his shoes. "I don't know if he will come back and we're so task on healers there." He hadn't felt drain while he had been using the crystals but he can feel the pull on his aether now. "I feel like I'm letting them all down...because I can't stand the elementals and they can't stand me."
She said nothing back to that statement. He didn't know if it was approval or disapproval over his statement. "Raimy and his wanting me to go to a brothel. How could he even suggest that as a good idea...especially with Lady Amaya in the room." His eyes were starting to drift close. "why must Sir Khit'to always push," he yawns, "alcohol on me...stomach still turn from feel of fried Dodo..."
****
The darkness in his parents room was even thicker then usually as he found himself in his ten year old body. The fever had grown more, his whole body shaking from it and the chill that encircle him. He struggle as he sat up...finding Kit book in his hands. He waited...watching to door open as Fabrellet step into the room. He watch the elezen smirk at him. "So, you think that you can fight me, curse one." He pause, frowning as the miqo'te stared at him, unnerving him slightly. "What, no fear now that you accept your fate?"
"No..." John whisper. "I challenge you to honorable combat...in two week time." He watch Fabrellet step back.
"You...you challenge me...who has the backing of the elementals."
"Yes, to honorable magical combat." He sat his hand on Kit's book. "In two weeks, we will face each other in the waking world. Whoever wins...will take the other's life. That is if you and your elementals masters are not afraid to face me as myself instead of in this sick weak body."
"Two weeks...and what is to stop you from running...not that I won't find you if you did."
"I have business that I must settle here. I won't run even after that. There is a set of caves up from Camp Black Brush. We will face each other near Cutter's Cry." He waited to see what he would do. It was a risk but he would take it.
Fabrellet face look thoughtful. "No one to help you...and once I slay you, the elementals will bless me even more." He move to put the dark dagger away. "Then I'll accept your challenge..." John only has a moment to see something dark and sinister sweep over Fabrellet's face. "No...you will diesss," he/they said, leaping for John.
Kit's book was open and he launch Bio at Fabrellet/elementals? with Ruin following after. A blue gold light launch itself from beside him and tackle it/herself into Fabrellet, throwing him back through the door.
****
John grasp awake, only to curl around his left arm as not only trembles ran through it but something dark and cold try to surface. He ignore Kit's panic cries in his head as he force himself to sit up. He pull the robe down and he could see now the tendrils of void taint running outward from his arm. "Gods, do the elementals hate me so that they turn to the void to get rid of me completely?"
Howl, he had to find Howl before there was nothing else left of him. He stumble over to the desk, "Paper...ink...got to make this right...not sure if I have two weeks..." He began to write or more like rammble into the letter. He wrote that Sis...no he didn't know that he had started calling Sei sister. Wrote that Sei said that she hadn't seen him for a while. He apologies for everything that he had put him, Warren, and Sei though. He told him to please come home....and he didn't remember what else he wrote...that he knew he had lost against them. Yes, he knew he was going to lose but not before he made sure that Howl was back with those that care about him.
He seal the letter, stumbling out to the first postmoogle that he saw. "Please...you have to find a Seeker by the name of Howl," he said, pushing it into the hands of the moogle. "Tell him that it's from John Waterstrike...that it's urgent and he has to read it."
"Are you alright, kupo? You look too pale."
"I'm fine right now...but you have to make sure he gets this. Please hurry." John watch the postmoogle nod and flutter away. He look at the still dark sky. "Time...got to pack...going to take all day to search Thanalan. I swear Howl...I'll find you." He stumble back toward the inn, throwing gear into a pack. He headed for the gate to Western Thanalan calling Safire to him. "Please behave...I don't have to time to fool with them. Kit, keep your nose up for his aether."
'You need to see Titor and the others...they can help.'
"I will...after we find Howl."
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