45 Ch. 30, Pt. 3- Recovering and Hatching (1/2)

I felt oddly comfortable yet sore, and I still had no idea where I was until I began to recognize the furniture and items around me. It seems that somehow I'm back in my room in the new apartment we had recently bought.

All I could remember was trying to dodge the explosive blast and then the feeling of pain and then nothing. I don't even know how I managed to make it back here in one piece. The stabbing sensation over my side and back was letting me know that not all of me managed to make it out unscathed, although I was lucky to even be alive with all my limbs intact.

I didn't feel up to much more than turning my head and looking around while staying laid down. It seems like it's light again, so I assume this means that I probably slept for nearly a day at least.

”Mira, are you here?” I do my best to yell out with a hoarse voice from dehydration. I figure that since I'm at home, Mira likely is too, and I am not looking forward to facing her wrath.

Not long after my beige bedroom door opened and in entered an obviously stressed and angry Mira. She had tear tracks in her makeup from crying, but all I could focus on was the pure rage on her face directed at me.

”Hey Mir, it's nice to see you again instead of being put in the dirt. What happened exactly? How did I make it back here, because all I remember is blacking out after nearly escaping the bydra.” (Thomas)

”Don't you 'Hi Mira' me Mr. I can't believe you did something so risky, you're lucky to even be alive. I can't decide whether I'm relieved that you're here and safe or pissed off at your reckless and dangerous behavior, not to mention you put Alexis in danger as well.” (Mira)

”In my defense, I thought we would be able to escape before the mom came back to the cave, we just got unlucky with timing. Although I realize now how reckless and stupid it was to go so deep into an area where I'm not completely safe from harm, and it was even worse for me to drag Alexis along even though she tried to warn me. I just wanted to make some more money or find something valuable and hopefully useful for us, I didn't think it would lead to such a disaster.” (Thomas)

”Well at least you seem to have learned your lesson, I won't bother nagging you over something you clearly regret and have looked back on. But don't you dare ever do something like this again you hear me, if I have to worry about you dying off every time you go to the monster plane I'll just kill you myself.” (Mira)

I couldn't help but bow my head in shame after being so verbally berated for something I know was completely my fault. I gulped at the thought of having to face Alexis again, I didn't know how I would thank her for saving me or apologizing for getting her into that situation.

*Creak!!*

Snapping me out of my thoughts was my door once again opening and entering was Alexis. She had bags under her eyes from lack of sleep and it seemed like she hadn't even had the chance to shower since I last saw her.

Deciding that getting this over with as soon as possible was the best way to go about it, I began speaking to her, ”Hey Alexis, you look like hell.”

”I wonder why?” She couldn't help but snarkily reply to me.

”Fair enough, I deserved that.” (Thomas)

”No shit you did. I'm just glad that we made it out of that fight in mostly one piece. Although I'm a bit upset at Hemlock dying so soon after getting her, luckily not much experience was wasted since she is relatively new to my lineup.” (Alexis)

*Gulp* I couldn't help the nervous swallow at being reminded of the serious and potentially lethal consequences of my mistake. I'm just glad she's more upset about it and that no more summons were killed, I think.

”Look, Alexis, I'm really sorry for ever putting you in that situation when you even tried to warn me about it. I promise that in the future if you still want to work with me, that I will listen to you and exercise more caution. Also, I decided that the egg should belong to you since our little excursion cost you so much, so go ahead and bond with it, I'm curious what it will turn out to look like.” (Thomas)

”Don't sweat it, shit happens and you even tried to sacrifice yourself to save me when we were faced off against a far stronger opponent. Of course, I'm still going to be working with you, this just further proved how dependable if a bit hasty you are.” (Alexis)

”Before you bond with the egg, why don't you tell me what happened after I was knocked unconscious from a blast, and how I even made it here.” (Thomas)

”Well, I don't know the entire story, but from what I can gather is that you managed to survive the explosion from the bydra somehow and Jotun carried you the rest of the way to the gate. Luckily I stayed waiting for you and was able to start some first aid as soon as I got to you. You had bled a fair amount and there was a ton of splinter stuck in you.” (Alexis)

”Once I got you stable and stemmed most of the bleeding, I brought you back to the apartment where Mira and I began to take care of you. We managed to disinfect your wounds and remove all the splinters, but there's still a bunch of holes in your back. If I remember right you still have some healing salve, so you might want to use that, otherwise, you're going to be stuck in bed for a while.” (Alexis)

”I can't believe I forgot about that,” I say in a tone that expresses my frustration at forgetting about something so important that could easily take care of the remaining injuries. I took out the mostly full jar and had Alexis help me put it on myself until we had emptied the jar out covering all my wounds.

My healing factor which was boosted thanks to Jareth took care of most of the smaller cuts and scrapes already, but there were plenty of larger wounds to take care of. Pretty soon my body was mostly back to normal if not a bit tired, and we decided to get the egg bonding out of the way