I open my eyes and take a second to figure out where I am, the roof looks like a churches, while it feels like I'm laying on a soft bed, why would a bed be in a church though? "Oh, you're awake? I'll be there in a second." Celeste must've brought me here, the question now though is where am I? "Just a minute, it's been some years since I've used my alchemy skills. My teacher made sure we understood how to understand every branch of power, I took to smithing and alchemy, while Ren took to spell circles and true vision." Spell circles are elite the formations of old but they only focus on one single attribute. The formations that are in history books can attack defend or support the wielder all at once. The spell circles we use these days are a mere fraction of the ability. They can only do one thing a time and they're very large, so unless you have a city whose walls you can paint there isn't much you can do. Celeste comes into the room, I I notice her clothing, or lack thereof. She's wearing clothes but only so much as a training shirt and a pair of sweatpants. The difference to her dresses and jackets in astounding, though her beauty doesn't help my thought process atop. I would ask her to put a better shirt on but this is after all her home, she probably didn't even think about it. Last time I blacked out like that I spent three days in a coma before coming out of it, I don't know how much time has passed now. "Here, this will help with the weakness." She hands me a bowl of blue liquid, I can see slight sparkles further in. It smells oddly appetizing, Almost like fruit "it's a mixture of fruits that help with hunger weakness, they also serve as a healing agent, boosting your regeneration speed. I use the sunlight to give my potions a hint of its power, all I've ever gotten though is a boost to certain abilities. It might be attributed to the fruit but to think this was permanent. I almost want to drink that." I raise an eyebrow and debate the use of a faster regeneration speed "I tend to not let myself be wounded but In the interest of you having given this to me already I won't turn down the chance to make myself stronger, even if it's only the quickening of healing speed." I drink it and don't really taste anything, it's lightly sweet but also a bit sour, I can't really bring any fruit to mind when I taste it though. As soon as I finish the potion my stomach growls, and she smiles "good, you're still human." I raise an eyebrow and realize I have a pair of... definitely not my underwear "I have a lot of question but I'll ask them in a moment." I pull the blanket down and look at the underwear, they look about the same size but they definitely feel odd "why am I wearing silk underwear?" I think it's silk at least. She blushes and mumbles something, then sighs "Alvanas doing, I'm afraid. She checked your wounds after you fell asleep. You didn't wake up so after we collected everything she took you to a stream and bathed you and Sera, speaking of which, where was she earlier? I never even noticed she disappeared. Anyway, Alvana said that when you woke up to tell you that she left you a present, a pair of her best making, though I didn't understand what she meant." I nod and look at them again, this time I notice something just around the hem, did she... "she signed her name on my underwear." Celeste busts out laughing and leaves the room. I stand up and feel the vestiges of my headache, the pain in my body sings out, accompanying it. Immediately after a coolness flows through me and the pin disappears "you shouldn't be standing up yet, hold on I have some soup from last night. I'll get you some meat as well you'll need it since I've sped up your healing rate." She clatters around and I push the door open. The bedroom was painted dark purple but the outer area of the house is bright blue, not baby blue but... it reminds me of a sky but not as bright, it doesn't have the shine. There is a painting on the back wall of a silver wolf standing in a clearing, snow falls around it as it's head looks back, it's beckoning you to follow it. "Sorry, I've been sleeping out here the past week, I didn't know when you'd wake up either." She looks around critically, taking at the, slight, mess on the table sitting in the middle of the room. "I asura you, I've slept in dirtier beds as a kid, that is clean." She snorts and turns back to finding whatever she's looking for "I had some in here, I guess I'll have to go get some..." she turns and looks at me "fine, since you want to get up you can join me, we'll just eat out tonight." I don't have any money and refuse to let her pay for me so I have two options, stop by a friends house or steal some. I don't have any friends that aren't women at this point... actually, "where am I?" She stops for a moment and looks at me, then her eyes widen "oh, sorry!" She rushes over to the wall with the painting and grabs the left side, it moves on hinges and I see another room, this one is completely open to the outside, but as I look I notice glass. Those must be her sunning room. Laughing at my stupid joke I walk out to learn of my surroundings.