"Try to stay still." Ivor snapped at me. "You try to stay still when someone is sewing up a wound on one of the-" I was cut off by Ivor shoving the needle through my wing again. I growled, but that was it. "You know, with you having scales and all, you would not think that you would need stitches." Ivor said, as though amazed that I was part human still. "Oh, I know, I'm a real mystery." I said, sarcastically. "No dragon doctor around can find out why a dragon would need skin. I mean, it's not like scales grow over top the skin, oh no. It's not like a cat and fur-" I was cut off again by Ivor once more shoving a needle into my wing skin. "A little warning would be nice." I gasped out, grabbing my left arm in my right hand and squeezing it as hard as I could. "And you being quiet so that I may do this would be nice. Now get ready." Ivor warned, giving me a moment to prepare before finishing up stitching me up.
"There, was that so bad?" Ivor asked, as he began to wrap up my wing. "No, I think that next time, I'll get hurt on purpose, because this was so fun." I rolled my eyes. "Stop with the sarcasm. You are hanging around Jesse and Petra way too much." I stuck my tongue out at him. "Done." Ivor said, as he finished wrapping up my wing. "Try to not fly for a while, and try not to move it much. If you make sure to keep an eye on it, you should be able to go on adventures still." I nodded, glad at hearing that news. "Now, let's get Jesse, and head back out there to see what your family found." I shook my head. "Why does everyone try to say that we are a family?" I asked, looking over at Ivor. "Well, you are all very close now. You hang out with Jesse and Petra the most, and they have, whether they like it or not, they care for you like you were their own child. And we all can see how they feel about each other, just as we can see how Jess and that blonde guy care about each other." I snorted at 'blonde guy'. "He has a name you know." "Oh I know." Ivor smirked. But that smirk fell quickly. "I'm sorry, about what I said before." I blinked, not really wanting to be back on this subject. "It was wrong of me to bring that up over such a petty argument." "It's fine." I said, looking at him. "Are you sure?" He asked, his voice lower than ever before – I was sure that if I did not have sensitive hearing, that I would not have an idea what he had said. "Yes, I'm sure." I said, confidently, my tail swaying from side to side.
"Now come on, I'm sure you will be very interested in what Jess and Jesse found." I said, grabbing his shoulder, and walked out of the room – that looked way too much like a hospital room for comfort.
Jesse looked like he was waiting for us for hours, instead of the 15 minutes it actually took to get stitched up. "Are you okay?!" He nearly yelled, seeing that my whole wing was covered in bandages. "Yes, she is fine now. I cleaned the wound, stitched it up, and had a heck of a time getting those bandages around his wing." "And I of course sassed him along the way." I pitched in. "So much for it being fine if you had to get stitches." Jesse said, though he still looked worried. "Well, it was mostly just a precaution. Since we have no idea how healing potions would affect him, I just did what I could." "Well, thank you Ivor." Jesse said. "Oh yeah, and thanks for the armor!" I added, pointing at the dark blue armor that I was wearing. "It was no problem – though, if I find a material that can bend slightly, I could make some matching sets for your wings and tail!" Ivor shouted, like he had an idea. Jesse chuckled at Ivor's eagerness. "Well, we should get back to the others." I said, looking forward to talking to Lukas a bit.
"So, what is it that you two have found?" Ivor asked, looking at Jess and Jesse the moment they were back in the treasure room. "We found these." Jess said, as she pulled out her yellow tinted flint and steel, and Jesse pulled out his blue tinted one. Ivor let out a gasp. "THIS IS THE GREATEST FIND OF OUR YEARS!" He shouted, making me flinch at how loud he was, before he was jumping around like a toddler would when someone were to say that there was free ice cream. "Okay, why is that?" Lukas asked, looking at the flint and steels with mild interest. "These are the only solid proof of a group of builders so old, that they were before the Order of the Stone!" Ivor shouted, though less loud than before. "Woah, a group older than the Order of the Stone?" Lukas asked, looking at Ivor, though a little skeptical. "Yes! With a single one of these, we can be on our way to find the Eversource!" Ivor yelled, his voice once again so loud that I had to cover my ears. I shot him an annoyed glance, but he seemed too giddy with this find that he didn't care. "The what now?" Petra asked, looking confused. Glad I wasn't the only one who didn't know what Ivor was talking about. "THE EVERSOURCE!" Ivor shouted again, though this time I hadn't taken my hands off my ears, so it was muffled. "Are you actually going to explain what it is?" Lukas asked, blinking at Ivor. "It is an item that makes an endless supply of precious materials!" Ivor said, low enough that I could take my hands off my ears. That actually sounded interesting, but I couldn't help but feel like this was leading to a very bad idea.
"Woah." Everyone else said, as I blinked at Ivor. "Isn't this exciting!?" Ivor asked us. "Yeah, Ancient groups, Eversources, you know I'm in." Petra grinned. Everyone nodded, but me and Lukas. "Then what are we waiting for?!" Ivor yelled again, before running to the exit. "Adventure!" We all looked at each other. "Ugh, he's coming with us?" Petra groaned, though it was more of a joke than anything else. "Well, I should probably be going now." Lukas said, starting to walk away, but was quickly stopped by four people. "Nope." "You are coming with us." "I need someone to be a buffer between me and Ivor." "Your nephew only got to see you for 5 minutes, I'm sure you can make room in your life to hang out with him more." Jesse said that last part only jokingly. Lukas just grinned. "Let's go after him." Jess said, though she seemed happier than she had been with Lukas gone. Ivor was so right, it was too obvious. We were all laughing at each other when we caught up with Ivor.