The Scarlet Vision
A shadow of hope remains
Locien later would question how fast he'd ran. It seemed nearly impossible to have cleared the winding corridors of the Monastery in such a short amount of time. He'd even noticed Loksey's hounds try to play chase with him only to be lost quickly behind him. Right now though he didn't seem to be running fast enough.
Faster, he commanded his body, Faster!
He noticed a large group of scouts in front of him. Swords drawn and yelling nonsensical babel to whatever held their attention.
"You undead scum! How dare you bring the tabard of a fallen crusader here!!"
Without even planning it he opened his mouth to tell them to get away from what he feared was Marsuis. Instead though, his fear caused a loud scream to echo around him. The sheer intensity of the Mind Blast sent many fleeing from the horrible ringing noise that reverberated in their skulls.
Ignoring the fleeing soldiers, he knelt at the battered ones side and to his mutual joy and horror found it truly was Marsuis.
"Master!" he cried in a panic. One arm was twisted at an angle that should have been impossible and most of the older man's skin was green or purple instead of the tan it should have been "Light above what have they done to you...." he whispered.
"Inquisitor Goldwing...." one soldier groaned, apparently his scream was wearing off "get away from the scourge"
"You fool!" The high elf roared "Do you never think before you act" a lone tear fell from a sapphire eye "This...is...MY MASTER! MY COMMANDER! YOU NEARLY KILLED MY FRIEND!!!" Locien shrieked pointing a thin finger accusingly. "IF HE'S DEAD! I'LL KILL YOU!"
The group of initiates all seemed to come to the same conclusion to stay out of spell range at the moment.
Turning his attention away from the idiots, Locien looked down at the battered corpse of his master and noticed two drowsy green eyes looking up at him.
"Your alive, thank the light...." The relief Locien felt wasn't done justice by those few words. The words would have to wait though, he needed to concentrate on healing Marsuis first.
"Lo..cie..cough cough"
"Don't speak right now" Locien murmured softly "Close your eyes...this...this might hurt some"
Marsuis gave a weak groan and let his bloodshot eyes fall closed as instructed.
Locien closed his eyes as well, then re-opened them. Shocking all the humans around him as his normally blue eyes now shined gold along with his hands.
"Light above and all around, Give me the strength to bind these wounds and heal these hurts" he asked in a voice that didn't seem to suit his small body.
The light on his hands got brighter.
"Binding Heal" he called, nearly slamming his palms onto the chest of the hurt man. Marsuis gave a loud, very much in pain, groan but was to weak to protest what looked to have hurt as much as it was healing.
One of the Trainees leaned over and emptied the contents of their stomach as Marsuis arm returned to it proper place. The loud cracks and grinding of bones as they reset themselves as well as the flesh mending itself but looking fearfully deformed before returning to normal.
Locien watched it all happen. Also wanting to retch but unable to at the moment. He'd never been happier in his life that he hadn't eaten in two days. If he had there was no way he could have done this with out becoming horrendously sick.
Feeling the wariness that came with the loss of mana he started to pull back. Finding that Marsuis vitals all seemed stable now he finally allowed the healing to stop.
Locien's skin became whiter than ash and the glow of his blue eyes had dimmed to a baby blue. He was completely drained. If Marsuis wasn't completely healed he couldn't do anything more, he'd have to go get Whitemane and plead for her help instead.
"Inquisitor Goldwing are you okay?" asked a sick looking trainee.
"Fine" he said in a strained voice that said he was anything but. "Give me something to drink and eat, whatever you have"
One person came forward with a Goldenbark apple and another with a skin of Moonberry juice, which he drank with gusto feeling his mana and energy return slowly now that his stomach had nourishment again.
Marsuis slowly started to lean up, despite Locien's attempts to push the man back down onto his back.
"I'm fine now Loci, don't doubt you abilities. You know you healed me up as good as i'm going to get"
"Lay down! I still haven't returned all the blood to your body or checked for any hidden internal wounds or." Locien was cut off as a hand was placed over his mouth.
"You...need to rest. You can check me all you like once, and only once, you've regained your strength. Okay?" Marsuis said softly, giving his chuckle that always caused Locien to bend to his whims.
Unable to do anything else, the priest just nodded.
Marsuis stood on shaky legs, nearly falling over once but regained his precarious balance quickly. Then he offered his uninjured hand to help up the High elf.
"Come on Loci, I'll tell you everything once were inside" Marsuis gave a strained smile "I'm sure you want to know"
"Of course I do!" The priest snapped, but the worry in his eyes dimmed the fierceness "First things first though! You are going to sleep until I see it fit for you to be walking, I might be an Inquisitor but even I know it's impossible to heal all your wounds with one spell."
Marsuis blinked for a moment, then a warm smile bloomed "You....never change do you?"
"No I don't, now come! To bed with you Master, I won't have you getting ill on my watch"
Locien stopped for a moment "Oh wait a moment, Master, cover your ears please"
Marsuis shot the blond a warning look, but did as asked.
Locien took in a deep breath then released another mind numbing scream, causing almost everyone in the area to run around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
"That's for hurting him even more than what was done originally!!"
"Locien....." came the warning tone of the green-eyed one.
The priest cast a disarmingly innocent smile to the older man "what?" he said more sweetly than sugar.
Shaking his head Marsuis started to walk towards the Monastery "Come, am I not supposed to be in bed?"
"Yes you are!" Locien crowed, taking his friends uninjured arm and started to pull him just a bit foreword. "Then we shall trade words of your disappearance." The High elf stated "Because I have MANY words to tell you, Many loud words"
Marsuis' smile wasn't seen by the petite blond, but it was one of relief "You...truly haven't changed...not one bit...Thank the Light for small favors"
