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Chapter Three: A Night in the Tower

Ardrsil groaned as he came to slowly. He felt a great discomfort in his ribcage. He looked around with the energy he could muster. He was in the infirmary. To his left was an empty bed. To his right was a red haired girl who, by her armor, was probably a Pegasus knight of Ilia. She was still asleep. Ardrsil groaned again as his head began to throb. He sighed and lay back down. Soon he fell asleep.

A little later...

Vai sighed as he watched Ardrsil. He turned around to leave, it was getting late. There, in front of him, was a female shaman of great beauty. Or so she was in his opinion.

"Hello." He said plainly. Then he bowed.

"Oh, hello. I was simply going to inquire about the condition of my roommate." She said.

"Ah, the Pegasus knight?"

"No...The other shaman."

"Still sleeping. I would advise you do the same. The dorms will close soon." With that Vai bowed again then left.

Erika sighed then left as well.

A few minutes later...

Ardrsil slowly woke up for the second time. The girl beside him was staring blankly at the ceiling. She turned over and rubbed her arm. Ardrsil deduced she had probably fallen from her Pegasus.

"Um, hi." Ardrsil said to her.

"Huh? Ah, hello. I see you're awake already." She replied in the cheeriest voice she could muster.

"So...how'd we get here?" Ardrsil asked.

"Oh...I, um, sorta fell on you...yeah..." she said, blushing slightly.

"I figured as much."

"Sorry..."

"Don't worry...where's the cleric in charge?" Ardrsil asked, suddenly noticing that the two were alone on the room.

"She left a while ago. We'll be here for the night. We're excused from tomorrow mornings classes; we'll still have to take the afternoon classes, though."

"I see..."

There was a rather long silence that followed.

"I'm hungry." Ardrsil said.

"Oh, you were asleep when the nurse was offering food..."

"I see..." Ardrsil said, looking disappointed.

"I can cook some food for you, if you want...I'm fairly good at cooking. Besides, I should really make it up to you for falling on you."

"No, really... we should both be getting some rest..."

"All right. Good night then." The Pegasus knight turned around.

Ardrsil extinguished the lamp in the room then went to try and sleep himself.

A while later...

Ardrsil woke up as the pain in his ribs came back. He groaned and tried to go back to sleep. After a while he concluded that it was useless so he stood up. He was hoping that the cleric had returned but he soon realized that it was still early in the morning. The girl in the other bed was still asleep, her beautiful body entwined with the bed sheets. Ardrsil sighed as he suppressed some of his more un-shamanistic urges. And sighed again as he thought of how she would make an excellent sacrifice for the equinox festival. And sighed once again as he thought of how she would look as one of the harem girls in the black monastery where he stayed as a novice.

As it was, one could not sigh so loudly and repeatedly and expect one's roommate to remain in slumber, and so the girl slowly stirred back into consciousness. She soon spotted Ardrsil staring at her, slightly redder in the face than normal. As it was, it seemed is prayers weren't answered because the girl, whose shirt was quite near taken off, noticed this too. And soon, there was a scream to accompany the sighs.

Notes!

A filler chapter, mainly to introduce a new character... Anyway, please send reviews even if you don't really have anything to say. :D Of course, thanks to those who have previously sent reviews.