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    A blink and the scene had changed. One moment, Thera had been at one of the invasion points, fighting against a demon far more powerful than she should have been encountering in only the second wave and the next her eyes were shooting open, her body darting up with them to find herself in the busy hospital she’d been serving, swarmed by spirits as she tried to make sense of her jumbled memories.

    Last she’d remembered she’d been hit, and hard too, but the sheer quantity of light and life spirits around her answered why she wasn’t feeling it. She could only imagine that whatever ones had found her during the battle had called the others to start working on her before she could even be dragged off from the grounds, leaving her back in top condition and only needing to wake up, with someone else taking notice of that fact.

    “Glad to see you up,” The hospital’s director said, with Thera feeling suddenly very aware that she’d never learned the woman’s name. An insignificant fact but one it felt like her brain was trying to escape to rather than confront her real issue, one that was skating around the periphery of her consciousness as she slowly got her thoughts in order. An issue she didn’t have time to come to herself, with that very director bringing it to the front of her mind as soon as she’d gotten the chance. “I was told the demon took your companion.”

    Saying something so shocking to someone who’d just woken up felt cruel but as the one in charge of managing so many lives, she didn’t have the time to waste on consolations and cheap words. She’d examined Thera while she’d been unconscious and hadn’t found anything that made her worry about the shock of it negatively affecting her and as terrible as the news was, she both needed to know and didn’t have time to waste worrying when she was in a state where she could get back to work.

    But the mind was not such a simple thing, able to compartmentalize against emotional blows, especially not when it revealed something she had been subconsciously ignoring. She couldn’t feel the effects of bind between them.

    A passive skill that let both of them find the other at all times, always pointing in the same direction, Thera knew it could be turned off but neither of them ever actually did it. There was no point. Having it up was convenient, and in a time like that, a comfort. Something they could both look to while the world went to hell and know that the other was still there, even if out of sight. It wasn’t something Ben would just turn off.

    She felt a grip on her heart and bile rising in her throat at the obvious implication but she refused to accept it, instead asking more questions.

    “What do you mean, taken? Tell me exactly what happened.”

    Taken wasn’t the same as killed, there was no reason to think he was dead just because of that, no matter what implication came with her skill’s silence, but the woman by her side had no other answers for her to go off of.

    “I’m sorry, that’s all I was told, now if you’re feeling good enough to work-”

    “How long was I out?” She instead demanded, knowing that there were people she needed to help but not caring then and there at all in comparison. No matter how cold it was, the people around her were strangers. Ben was Ben.


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    “About three hours.”

    Not long.

    A short enough time at least that there were sure to be people in her last point who’d witnessed what had happened while still being stationed to fight more and without waiting for anyone to say another word she was up and out, rushing through the miniature gate to the battle beyond, going up the fortress’s wall and ignoring the damage the demon had caused along it as her eyes scanned the other mages.

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