Seradia slowly opened her eyes, she blinked her blurry vision away until the view of her ceiling became clear. 'Where am I..' She groaned in pain as her head started to throb and every muscle in her body began to ache. 'What happened at..' She slowly turned her head seeing a bowl of warm water was on the stand next to her bed. She started to remember, she remembered being thrown against a wall, she remembered coughing up her own blood. 'Am I back?' She slowly sat up wincing from the pain.
She was back. She was in her room and in her bed. 'How did I get back?' She slowly looked around. 'Where's June?' Seradia pulled her covers off and slowly threw her feet over to the side of her bed. She sat there for a minute trying to catch her breath. It was hard for her to breath, it felt like her ribs were broken. Seradia whimpered as she got up from her bed but she dealt with it. She had to know what happened with the orb that they found.
Seradia pulled her robes over her head and walked out of her room and slowly down the stairs. "Dammit.." She cursed under her breath as she tried to ignore the pain. She walked out the door and saw that it was night time, she had no idea how long she'd been out. She stumbled around in the dark for a couple minutes till she finally reached the giant doors to the Hall of Elements. She put her hands on the doors and struggled a little to push them open but with a little more force she finally got them to move.
"I already told you!" June yelled at Ancano. She had been standing in the room for about an hour now arguing with him with Mirabelle. "You're not telling me everything! Clearly-" He quickly stopped in the middle of his sentence when he heard the doors opening. All three quickly looked and their eye's widened when they saw it was Seradia. She stumbled in almost falling over, June quickly stepped over and grabbed her keeping her up. Ancano was about to help her but he realized how it might look, so he kept his place but his eyes stayed on her.
"What are you doing out of bed!? You need to be resting!" Mirabelle yelled with a worried look on her face. "I.." Seradia began to speak as she slowly looked up. Her vision was starting to become blurry again but she could see Ancano's face and it almost looked like he was worried about her. "How long have I been out?" She slowly asked looking at June. "Only a few hours, we got back not to long ago." June said examining her. She could see bruises starting to form on her skin, she looked pale and weak.
"You must rest some more! June would you please help her back to her room?" Mirabelle looked to June. June nodded and grabbed Seradia's arm putting it around her neck. "Come on." She whispered as she helped Seradia back out the door. Ancano kept his eyes on them till they disappeared behind the closed door. His gut started to twist as he remembered the site of her when they came back. June had returned with Seradia on her back and she looked like she was dead.
They all thought she was, many of her bones were broken and her lungs were filled with blood. He clenched his jaw as he thought about the Dragonborn. He blamed her for the condition that Seradia was in and he demanded her to explain what happened. She did but he didn't believe that she was telling him everything. Mirabelle walked away returning to what she was doing, Ancano looked down and crossed his arms with his eyebrows furrowed down.
They supposedly found something at the ruin that demanded the Arch-Mage's attention. He couldn't help but feel impatient about it, he needed to know what it was and if it effected anything. Ancano needed to send a report to the Thalmor soon and he wanted to wait till he saw this thing that they were talking about.
June helped Seradia lay back down in bed and pulled the covers over her. "Now don't get up again, you really do need your rest." June said looking at her worried. June did feel a little bad about what happened, she decided she was going to stay at the Inn in the town to in case they needed her help again. She figured it was the most she could do after what happened to Seradia. Seradia watched June leave her room and than her eyes slowly closed as she quickly fell asleep.
Hours have passed by and dawn was nearing, Seradia was having a nice dream of her garden back home that was full of bright summer flowers. A warm sensation came to her head and her body, she started to stir around waking up. "Be still." She heard a familiar voice whisper to her. 'Was that in my dream?' She wondered as she was barely awake. She slowly opened her eyes as the warm sensation increased. She than realized that the sensation was coming from a hand laying on her forehead. She slowly turned her head and saw Ancano was sitting beside her bed and it was his hand that was on her forehead and he also had a hand on her stomach. "I said be still." He looked at her meeting eye contact.
"If you keep moving than I won't be able to heal you.." He whispered as he kept his eyes locked onto hers. She didn't say anything, she just kept looking into his gold eyes. She was surprised to see him there but she was also glad he was there. The warm sensation from his healing magic was a welcomed feeling on her sore muscles. Ancano's magic was impressive and if anyone could heal her it would be him. A small smile appeared on her face, she saw what looked like worry in his eyes. Like he actually cared for her.
He sat there for a few more minutes finishing up the healing. "There." He said with a relieved voice. He felt a little light headed, it took a lot of his magicka but he was able to do it. "Thank you." She whispered with a weak voice. Ancano looked into her eyes again, they stayed in silence as they kept looking into each others eyes. Ancano felt relieved that she was okay and now he knew for sure that she would recover. He slowly lifted his hand to her face, right when he was about to place it on her cheek he stopped himself.
He slowly sighed and lowered his hand back down. "I should probably go now, and you need to get back to resting." Ancano quickly got up but before he could go anywhere Seradia stopped him by grabbing his robes. He turned around looking at her a little confused. Seradia shifted her eyes away from him as she felt her cheeks grow warm. "Will you.." She began to speak but found herself becoming nervous. "Will you..stay till I fall asleep?" She slowly asked him looking back at him.
Ancano was a bit surprise but than to Seradia's surprise a small smile appeared on his face. She was expecting him to deny her for fear of being caught in her room but he sat down on her bed. Seradia smiled as she slowly closed her eyes falling back into a deep sleep. Ancano placed his hand on the side of her head and ran his fingers through her hair. He tried to force himself to pull his hand back but he couldn't, he couldn't take his eyes away from her.
He was confused and uncomfortable with the feelings that he was getting from her. He never knew he could feel such things from a human, he always told himself that he needed to distance himself from her to keep these feelings at bay but he could never bring himself to do it. Ancano let out a small sigh as he watched her sleep peacefully, he knew that he should of left in case someone saw him in her room but part of him didn't care.
Let them see, he would always think to himself but than he would remember the trouble that they would get in. He waited a while to make sure she was actually asleep and once he saw that she was he slowly removed his hand from her head. He got up from her bed and than bent down laying a soft kiss on her forehead. Ancano looked at her one last time and than quietly left her room.
Morning came and Colette was in her room checking her. "Strange, yesterday you were in critical condition but now you seem completely fine." Colette was the master mage of restoration magic. If any one in the college got hurt she would always be the one to help them. Seradia kept her head down as a small smile appeared on her face as she thought about Ancano. Ancano seemed to posses stronger restoration skills though since Seradia felt much better. She could actually take a full breath of air.
"Well than if I'm okay now than I need to speak to June, if she's still here." Seradia said as she got up from her bed. "She is, she's talking to the Arch-Mage right now." Colette said as she kept examining Seradia. Seradia nodded and left the room, even though she felt better her muscles were still sore. She hurried down the stairs and out the door, today was one of those days where the wind was blowing hard. She quickly ran across the court yard and into the Hall of Elements, the first person she ran into was the Arch-Mage. "Sir! I was just looking for you!" She said loudly making him jump a bit.
He looked at her with a smile. "Oh good, it's good to see that you're up and around." He examined her from head to toe. "Is June still here? I was told she was talking to you." Seradia asked him. She needed to know what happened with the orb from the ruin. "She is down in the Arcanaeum talking to Urag. I was actually about to ask you to join her." He explained. Seradia raised an eyebrow at him. "She and the others have explained everything to me and right now she is asking Urag if he has anything about this orb and ruin." He crossed his arms.
Seradia's heart leaped in her chest as he explained it to her. She was dying to know more about it all, with out another word Seradia quickly walked past the Arch-Mage and down the stairs towards the Arcanaeum. She was walking down the stairs so fast she lost her footing and ended up tripping and falling down but luckily someone was there to break her fall. Whoever she ran into didn't fall, they in fact caught her. It was Ancano. "Watch it." He hissed.
Seradia blushed as she quickly pushed herself out of his arms, she put her hands behind her back and looked down at the ground. "What are you doing here?" She slowly asked him. Ancano quickly stood up straight and cleared his throat. "I'm..just observing.." He shifted his eyes away from her. Seradia didn't know what else to say so she just slowly shifted around him and than quickly walked up to Urag's desk next to June.
June looked at her a bit surprised. "Well, you seem to have healed quickly." She examined her. "I'm a fast healer I guess.." Seradia said with a shrug. "The Arch-Mage wanted me to join you on finding out anything of the orb." She explained looking over at Urag. "Well, I'll tell you the same thing I told this one. You're out of luck! Whatever I had on it was stolen." Urag crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair.
Seradia furrowed her eyebrows down. "Stolen?" She asked him. "How could anything get stolen from here?" She looked around the library. "To make a long story short. An old student came claiming he wanted to barrow the books for study, but instead of "borrowing" the books he ran off with some weird necromancers with them." Urag explained. "You haven't sent anybody after them? You're usually pretty protective over your things." Seradia pointed out. "I am right now." He pointed at June.
Seradia looked at her. "You're going after them?" She asked. June nodded as she examined Seradia more. "When?" She sounded a little excited about it. "Now." June answered raising an eyebrow at her. "I'm coming with you!" Seradia couldn't hold back her smile. "I don't think that's a good idea." June held her hands up trying to calm her excitement down. "Why not?" Seradia frowned. "Because yesterday you looked like you were dead. Just because you're up walking doesn't mean you're good enough to come along with anything else." June explained crossing her arms.
Seradia opened her mouth about to argue but before she did Ancano walked up to them. "I think she should go, you shouldn't be doing any of the college's business with out someone from the college." He glared at her as he spoke. "Okay than send me with someone who wasn't just choking on their own blood yesterday." June glared right back at him. "I'm fine!" Seradia yelled a little. "If I'm good enough to get out of bed then I'm good enough to help." Seradia crossed her arms.
"I don't care who goes, just someone go get my damn books!" Urag yelled at them growing annoyed and impatient. They all looked at him for a moment and than looked back at each other. June examined Seradia some more and than sighed. "Fine! But if you collapse don't expect me to carry you back again." June walked past Seradia leaving the Arcanaeum. Seradia couldn't help but smile as she quickly followed after her with Ancano right behind her.
Before she could walk up the stairs Ancano quickly grabbed her arm stopping her. She looked at him confused. "Listen." He whispered pulling her close to him so that no one else could hear him. "I need you to keep an eye on that Dragonborn. She is up to no good, I just know it. I also want you to find out whatever you can about this thing and come tell me as soon as you return." He locked his eyes onto hers. Seradia blinked and looked at him confused about his sudden strange behavior. "O-okay.." She slowly replied. Ancano slowly let go of her arm and when he did she started to go up the stairs but than he quickly grabbed her again stopping her. "Also, be careful." His eyes suddenly went soft. Seradia smiled at him and than walked back up the stairs.