139 Watching closely (1/2)

Lilith was staring at Daren's sleeping face.

She was inside one of the rooms from the hospital alongside Chloe who showed her where the doctors had placed him.

His condition wasn't so bad overall. He took a lot of damage from the electricity blast that Xadi released and ended up burning his arms a bit, but it appeared that he was mostly just exhausted.

Chloe explained that he tried to get up again after the blast and with the help of Ellie, they managed to take the wood monster down using the girl's mirror magic to copy the ability to turn into a metal weapon from Marcus. Attempting to fight after such a heavy hit placed a lot of stress on his body and he probably would not wake up anytime soon.

Marcus himself was also not looking very good. He was the one who received most of the blast from the lightning attack. His blessed energy managed to keep him alive but he also would need to rest for a while before returning back to full health.

Chloe mentioned that Marcus also tried to fight against Xadi for a brief moment after the attack, but the most he could do was save Ellie from a huge ice attack before falling down again.

Lilith became filled with guilt. While the rest of her team was doing their best, she was the only one who couldn't find in herself to wake up during the battle. Because of her sword attracting part of the lighting attack, she ended up suffering much bigger injuries than the rest and took much longer to recover.

She imagined that Evlin would have tried to heal them but she learned from her journeys that healing magic doesn't work very well against electric magic. Even if Evlin healed her wounds, the residual energy of the lightning attack would have taken some time to fully go away.

Now the effect was finally gone, but only Lilith had managed to awake while Daren and Marcus were sleeping on the hospital beds with machines checking their pulses and wearing masks to help them breathe.

”How long will they stay like this...?” Lilith asked.

”It's hard to say...” Chloe confessed, ”Damage caused by... Well... Magic... Apparently is much harder to analyze than regular injuries...”

Lilith approached Daren and gently touched his face to remove the hair from his eyes while holding his hand.

”You always try to do everything...” she whispered, followed by kissing his lips.

Chloe showed a small shocked expression, ”Oh! Are you two...?”

”He's my future husband.” Lilith cleared up while turning her attention to Chloe, ”And the father of my son... And the one man in this world I love more than anything else...”, she then looked at Daren's sleeping face again and returned to whispering, ”And I let this happen to him... Right in front of me...”

Chloe didn't know what to say. She felt the scene was touching but she could tell that the woman in front of her was carrying a lot of baggage. Chloe was reminded of Evlin for a moment, another person who looks like she is dealing with a lot of stuff but tries not to show.

”What are you going to do now...?” Chloe asked, worried that she was interrupting their moment.

Lilith released Daren's hand and stared at the window.

”Our leader... Or rather... My friend... Is fighting against a dangerous force right now that is threatening her family, and possibly the entire stability of this world...”. She then rubbed her eyes and looked at Chloe, ”I need to help her!”

”A dangerous force...?” Chloe said, trying to understand.

”A girl that received the blessing of a god and is being aided by a demon plant... They escaped from my world and are now roaming free in this one... And they are after Evlin...”

The words 'my world' echoed inside Chloe's mind. Lilith had explained to Chloe the whole story so far to the confused woman. About Evlin being summoned to another world, being stuck in there for four years, how she ended up needing to learn magic to survive, and how she finally managed to come back after befriending Lilith and her group after tricking a goddess into making a portal for her.

And also how one of her enemies ended up following her into this world and started to plot ways to obtains Evlin's power to herself by threatening everything Evlin cared about.

”Wait...” Chloe made an expression of worry, ”So that thing that attacked me... It came after me because of Evlin...?”

”Yes...” Lilith admitted, ”Not just you... She also attacked her mother's house and apparently kidnapped her sister too...”

Chloe started to tremble, ”So... You're saying that this girl... She's attacking anyone related to Evlin??”

Lilith didn't thought about it until now, but after Chloe mentioned it, that had indeed been the case. Mia had made her move at every place Evlin was familiar with. Her apartment, her sister's home, the playground she hangs out with Ellie on, her hospital, and even her therapist's office. Mia was causing havoc on every location Evlin was involved with.

”Indeed...” Lilith said, now sharing the same worried expression as Chloe, ”She apparently made some kind of game with Evlin where she will keep sending attacks at her until the week ends... I worry about any other places she might attack next...”

”Places she might attack...?” Chloe said while holding her chin with her hand.

”Any place related to Evlin is in grave danger right now... That's why we need to find her and stop her soon!” Lilith mentioned.

”The only place Evlin visits besides my office and the park where she plays with her niece is...” Chloe's eyes suddenly expanded, ”Oh no...”

”What?” Lilith asked as she noticed Chloe's sudden change in expression.

”My daughter...” Chloe whispered with a weak voice.

”Your daughter...?”

”Evlin... She gives art lessons at the same school my daughter studies on...”

”A school?”

”My daughter... All the students... The whole school might be in danger!!” Chloe said as she started to show a face of panic and began to cover her mouth with both hands.

”Chloe...?”

”I... I need to get her out of there! I need to go to the school and get my daughter away from there!!” Chloe said as she started to move towards the door.

”Wait!!” Lilith held her arm to stop her.

”What!!?? You just told me that every place related to Evlin is bound to be attacked!! I need to make sure my daughter is safe!!”