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Crown Prince Wilhelm ♛ ([personal profile] ordinar) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs 2023-04-18 02:01 am (UTC)

For the first week, Wilhelm recuperates in his room, leaving only to take meals in the dining hall. Dipping into the Horizon keeps him from going stir crazy, and Elrond, recovering from their ordeal too, provides built-in company when the elf's not absorbed in one of the many books he keeps within reach of his bed.

In the second week, when his wounds have staved off infection long enough to seal up completely, he resumes training with Kyle. Though, they return to the basics and stay there for now, to let his body get accustomed again.

Around this time, he expects to hear from Istredd regarding his magic lessons too, and this invites a sense of dread to sit in his gut. Not for practicing his magic. After relying on his connection with fire to survive the plunging temperatures on the mountainside, he's more confident in his abilities than he's ever been.

But he can't forget how he'd screamed and shoved and spat at Istredd, only for the mage to be dead right. There were no ghosts among them in the pit; there were only his own delusions decomposing his mind. They hadn't talked much after that. Wilhelm's stubborn pride made sure of it.

So he dreads, but no message comes.

By the third week, he decides to meet this thing head on. It probably looms larger in his mind than the reality of it warrants. He knows how his anxiety amplifies everything into a crisis that nobody else can see. Though, by the time he enters the tower that occupies Istredd's domain, he's second guessing himself. It's equally likely that Istredd, realizing what a petulant child he is, has made up his mind to discard him as a student.

As Wilhelm wanders up the curving staircase to the second floor, the ravens flock to him. They land, wings fluttering, on the bannister beside him and swap perches so that they still shadow him as he goes up. They caw and tilt their heads in curiosity.

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