15 Chapter Four - 4 || Healer (2/2)
She shook away the concerns with her head and looked at the wounds resolutely. Easing her mind, Essairyn let her magic flow gently into the gashes and imagined the tissue closing up and the bones fortifying.
The magic glowed in response, and Banran let out a gasp as particles of lavender light sunk into his flesh. They began reforming and reattaching tissue and bone, and Essairyn smiled in success.
But as more magic flowed into him, a faint ache began throbbing in her center. She furrowed her eyebrows in agitation but continued healing him.
However, the magic seemed to be pouring out of her as if his body was siphoning all of her magical energy. She was being depleted fast. Essairyn wasn't sure if she could maintain it for much longer. Her arms were growing weak, and her body, heavy. But the wounds were rapidly healing, and she was determined to finish.
Just as Essairyn's vision was becoming hazy, Chona returned with the healing potions. Seeing the girl's strained state, Chona rushed over, knocked her away from Banran, and caught her in her lap.
”Essairyn! Essairyn!” she called frantically as she held the blankly blinking girl. ”You overdid yourself! Are you okay?” she gently scolded with a worried face.
Essairyn squeezed her eyes shut and held her pounding head. ”Thanks,” she murmured, ”I guess I overestimated myself.” She grinned apologetically at Chona.
”Here,” Chona ordered, holding a bottle of green potion up, ”Take this.” She flashed her eyes toward Banran who was slowly getting up. ”It looks like you're the only one who needs this now.”
Essairyn gave a short, light chuckle. ”Looks that way. Thanks.”
She took the bottle lightly in her fingers and slowly drank the potion. A warming and cooling sensation spread throughout her body, and she instantly felt the tension subside.
”Wow,” Essairyn exclaimed, looking at the empty glass bottle, ”That was kind of cool.”
Chona chortled. ”I've never seen a healer almost faint while healing, or a someone look at a potion as if it were her first time unless—.” She gasped and raised her eyebrow at Essairyn. ”Wait, you're not a traveler, perhaps?”
Essairyn looked up at Chona. ”You're familiar with travelers?”
Chona nodded and replied thoughtfully, ”Well, we've always had people appearing from Earth throughout all of history, but it's become sort of a common occurrence these last few decades… Apparently there's a link between Sol'h'meyr and Earth that was created thousands of years ago which causes the appearance of travelers. I've never heard of it occurring the other way around, though.”
Her last sentence pricked Essairyn's ambiguous conscience. She immediately felt a sense of relief upon hearing there was no way to return to Earth. It was soon followed by guilt as she admonished that relief. And proceeding, she felt emptiness.