AN: Hopefully you guys can forgive the gap between chapter creation. I'm kinda stuck with ideas... Would any of you like to offer any ideas? If you would I would sure credit you.

Equius stumbled backward and fell over at the sight of the cut.

"I... I'm... a..." Equius began to say, but wasn't able to as the words got caught in his throat. "A...a...a...-" he tried to say again, but couldn't manage.

"Highblood? Or... as I should say, a higher blood?" A voice sounded from behind the troll. Equius got um and turned around. The white figure from the night before appeared before him. "This is what you wanted, correct?" Equius nodded quickly.

"Yes! This is exactly what I wanted. This... this is the best day of my life!" he said, staring at the small cut, which had already clotted by then. He tried to squeeze more blood out of the cut as he smiled widely, another thing which he was not known to do.

"I'm glad you are happy," the figure said to him. "But remember... one day." Equius then remembered the figure's condition.

"Just... one day?" Equius repeated sadly, with a bit of a questioning tone at the end.

"Yes, and you humbly agreed," the figure reminded him. Equius looked back at it.

"Yes... I know..." The figure seemed to glow brighter.

"So you should at least try to make the most of it, as this was your wish."

"Yes." Equius agreed. "Yes. I will."