Curses and Spells

My ears were ringing when I opened my eyes. The first thing that I noticed was Viex and Custard laying beside me. Viex was back to his smaller form. He and Custard were just waking up when I saw someone crouching down.

“Rose! Wakeup.” It was harder for me to identify the voice because of the ringing in my ears. And my vision was still trying to recover.

“Ren?” I wondered out loud when his features started to become clearer.

I saw him breathing out a sigh of relief when I responded. He helped push me back into a sitting position.

And then I saw them. In front of us was Queen Siera crying as she clutched the king’s lifeless body in her hands. Then my eyes switched to Eltur and Darem who were trying to shake Ace awake.

Seeing him unconscious shook my body to attention. “Ace!” I screamed and crawled hastily towards him. One of his hands, his left hand that clutched the ord was badly burned.