Elio Freyr: Burn Thy Wounds

Chapter 2: Changes

"Well Mr. Freyr, if I am just going to show off, I should've manipulated everything that people are seeing using my Light in order to hide our almost ruined town from the attack from two years ago."

Elio Freyr broke their eye contact first and helped himself to sit on the bed in order to get away from her, fast. 

When the past is already the topic, the first thing Elio wanted to do is to run away, and that's what he did for the past two years of his life. 

"Running away won't solve anything." Madam Loury faced him and out of nowhere said those words that he didn't expect to hear. 

"And this is why running away is worth it because of people like you who doesn't know how to stop when you should be." 

Madam Loury's expression went flat, and after a while, she just shrugged her head and sighed. 

Elio Freyr really has a way to annoy and make the people around him feel so frustrated with and without using words.

"Drink this." A glass filled with green liquid appeared in her hand through a sudden and quick appearance of light that vanished as fast as the thing appeared on her hand.  

"Aren't you going to heal me with your magic?" 

"Technically, this is made with my magic. Your friend came to see me before you and told me that he accidentally and unconsciously poisoned you with the air inside the Black room." 

"Is that how frustrated he was with me? He should've let me die then. I would be the happiest ever." 

"Ayden is not that kind of person. He's just having a hard time coping up with changes from the aftermath of what happened two years ago, just like you. But unlike you, he didn't run away and he continued his life even though it was hard for him." 

"And for the record, I am not him." He grabbed the glass from Madam Loury's hand as fast as he could and drank the liquid substance that tasted so awful in one go. 

The glass vanished from his hand as soon as he emptied it, and he just watched. 

"That will take effect for the next thirty minutes. I'll leave you here for now. I'll excuse you for the rest of the day to your Instructors, so make sure to rest and wait for me here before you go. I just need to attend to another student outside." 

"I have a question." Madam Loury was about to leave him. She was  about to walk forward but she stopped just to hear what he wanted to ask without saying anything. 

"You said Ayden can heal himself. How is that possible?" It has been lurking around his mind ever since he heard it from her, but he couldn't find a perfect time to ask it. 

"Students are being taught to heal basic wounds for themselves in year three, that's why. Ayden is in year four now."

"That's not how things worked before."

"That’s right. But everything changed after that attack two years ago. If you have another question, ask me later. I need to go." 

Madam Loury dragged herself out as fast as she could and went out of the way they had used to enter the place. 

Elio Freyr was left alone under the shade of the tree in perfect silence. 

He moved up his feet on the bed without removing his shoes, and placed them both on the bed's footboard, and let the rest of his body lie flat on the soft mattress, placing his right arm on his forehead. 

"Everything changed after that attack from two years ago you say. I am at the right place then."

The other end of his lips bent up in a sudden, forming a sly smirk on his face while he slowly closed his eyes and covered them with his arm.