The badger, Alanna, the green lady, and Weiryn all watched Numair as he prepared to find the mage.
"Now, Numair you have never experienced what you are going to experience right now. Since this wizard has mild control over the health of someone you are close to, it will be painful for you as well as Daine." The Badger told the mage
"Wait, this will hurt Daine? I won't do it if it will hurt her." Numair had not been told that it would cause Daine to be in pain. He wouldn't have it.
"Numair, I don't know exactly how much Daine told you what she went through when she was a kid, but I'm sure she experienced far worse." Sarra told him.
"She said that the children and the adults shunned her."
"That's all?" Daine's ma answered surprised.
Numair nodded. "When they weren't hurting her mentally with harsh words and shunning, they were hurting her physically. The children used to throw rocks at her, huge rocks that would cut her skin. On many occasions I found her in the woods beaten. She could never remember who did it, but the scars had a lasting effect on her. She was scared to go outside because of them."
Numair stood, his mouth agape. He couldn't believe that she wouldn't tell him that. And if she forgot, how do you forget those kinds of things?
"It doesn't surprise me that she never told you. She probably doesn't even remember it herself, right now. Tell me, does she have nightmares when she wakes up and can't remember what happened?" Sarra asked, curious.
Numair gulped and nodded again "Well, she's probably starting to remember because she's letting her guard down to the memories. She blocked them out of her head when she lived it. She pretended like none of it was happening, so now it's her reality. She doesn't even realize half of the things she went through. I was able to find medicine that made the scars go away. So, don't feel bad. She's doesn't even remember."
A silence floated over the room as the gods let the information settle in the mids of the two mortals.
"Time to begin." Weiryn satated.
"Can't I help him? I could give him some of my power." Alanna suggested.
"No," the Badger god warned, "This spell can only work if one person with the Gift uses it. If another person's magic is even close to the person working the spell, their Gifts might fuse and cause both of them to die. I suggest, Lioness that you wait with Daine. Sarra will be in there with you working with Daine, Weiryn and I will be with Numair."
Alanna nodded and walked with Sarra to meet Daine. Before they went into the room, The Lioness stopped her companion.
"How bad will it be?" She asked concerned
"Far worse than I said. If I had told Numair the truth he would've refused to do it. In truth, Daine will be in more pain because that's how the wizard set it up. If someone tried to find him or her it would be at the risk of hurting the person that the wizard is controlling. I'm going to move Daine to a different room so Numair cannot hear her. If he gets distracted he'll have to start over again and that will mean more pain for Daine."
Alanna nodded before asking if she could use a spell so no one could hear inside of the room.
Sarra shook her head "This spell causes he senses to be amplified so he can even smell and hear what is around the place of the wizard."
Alanna shook her head. This was going to be rough and complicated. The Lioness picked Daine up.
"Where is the farthest place away from here that has no civilians?" Sarra asked.
Alanna laughed, "Probably the Jon and Thayet's room." She told her.
They headed off to the room of the King and Queen. Thayet was brushing her hair. Jon was probably doing something king-like elsewhere.
"Thayet, can we use your room?"
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"No, Numair, it will not hurt her that much." The Badger said for the fourth time.
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"Thayet, she'll be in immense pain." Sarra told her "I'll need your help to hold her down."
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"Yes, Numair she will be fine. She'll just sleep."
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"After this I'll need your help. Her barrier will fall that Numair put up. She might start shape shifting. I'll need both of you to keep her still so I can put it back up."
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"Just like in meditation only standing up." Numair breathed in deeply and exaled. Breathe. Exhale. Breathe. Exhale. He was as relaxed as he would get in this situation so he began chanting the words they had instructed him to.
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Daine mumbled something. Before gritting her teeth as a wave of pain washed over her.
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Black magic sparkled around him.
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Daine ground her teeth together shutting her eyes so hard, it hurt.
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He chanted a few more words and the black sparkling magic encircled him.
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tears streamed out of tightly shut eyes.
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He chanted and finally saw a vision. A cave.
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Daine let out a blood-curdling scream that could be heard throughout that whole side of the palace.
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More chanting. A cave that dropped below the ground at the end. An underground place. How smart. But how did the wizard keep it up?
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Daine let out another scream louder than the last. She jerked this way and that, trying to shake the pain off of her muscles and bones.
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A person. Was-was that Daine?
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Jon rushed into his room wanting to know what was going on. He stopped at the doorway seeing a writhing Daine screaming and crying in his bed!
"Don't just stand there! Help!" Thayet yelled at her husband
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It looked exactly like Daine. But the girl looked a couple of years older. Weiryn caught a glimpse of the person and gasped.
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Daine was starting to bleed. That was not supposed to be happening, Sarra knew something was wrong.
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"NUMAIR, STOP! YOU ARE KILLING DAINE!!!" Weiryn screamed.
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Daine's mouth opened to scream, but her vocal chords wouldn't allow it. Blood poured out of her nose.
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Numair stopped, a lasting picture of the girl in his mind before he collapsed on the floor in a dead faint.
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Daine stopped moving. "Nyeta?" she asked and then fainted herself.
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The badger and Weiryn looked at one another and bolted towards where Daine was.
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Sarra stood as if in a trance above Daine.
"I thought the barrier would fall." Said Alanna
Sarra shook her head "Nyeta?"
"Who is Nyeta?" Thayet asked concerned that a god was acting like this.
The badger and Weiryn burst into the room.
"Sarra, did you see?" asked her husband.
She nodded numbly. "I thought she was dead. I-I mean I now she was dead I felt her die."
"Who?" Jon questioned.
"Daine's sister, Nyeta." The badger said
"I had her two years before Daine with Weiryn, but something was terribly wrong. Every time she cried the earth shook. She could control the elements she had elemental magic, but one day she was playing with the earth and it collapsed on her. She died." Sarra said
"Or so we thought. What Nyeta doesn't know is that Daine does not have her elemental magic anymore. She used to when she was a baby, but slowly all signs disappeared, and we thought it was gone. With this spell we saw Nyeta, and Nyeta could see Daine. She wants something from Daine. More power. But she wouldn't want Daine's wild magic. Nyeta has a natural fear of animals. We never knew where she got that. We still don't. That means she could only want one thing that Daine has. Elemental magic. She wants more of it."
"But why would he want more? And where did she get the wild magic from for this spell she has over Daine?" Sarra asked.
"I don't know." Weiryn said and walked out of the room.
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