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What [i]was[/i] that?

It was beyond anything that Otis had experienced before, certainly. A potion that caused a limb to take on a reptilian, nay, draconic visage? One that could apparently destroy rupa, but one that simultaneously drove those in the vicinity into the mindscape of the one being targeted? Davil’s memories, his aspirations, ran past Otis like streams of light, like beams of rain, the Strigidae opening his hands up as if to catch this sublime moment, so much like shifting to another plane, and yet completely different still. His own Adapa took it all in, memorializing this perhaps once-in-a-lifetime happenstance.

And perhaps therein laid Davil’s incompetencies, the clash between what he was and what he wished. A natural-born killer, but even a child could kill. Otis was no romanticist, but even he could recognize the difference between a knight and a swordsman. A Personal Barrier could not be formed if one had delusions about what one truly was. An Ethos would malfunction still, if one knew the keywords but did not comprehend the prime essence.

The world re-emerged, as if a young man’s history and tragedy was nothing more than a daydream. Otis stared at the calcified limb, listened to the doctor’s prognosis, and sighed. A week of bedrest meant the postponing of the studies in Davil’s Ethos, no doubt. And with all the chaos that transpired within just two days at Wingram Academy, would there even a school by the time seven days was up?

He brushed aside those thoughts at the moment, and instead, turned to address the imp that remained in Raja’s clutches.

[b]“So, are you related to the Umbralist? I distinctly recall a few of your attacks possessing a similar corrosive effect.”[/b] It was only a passing question though, one more to encourage some curiosity from others, as Otis’s gaze found itself upon Dr. Sylv. [b]“Doctor, if you could explain what that potion was and what you had just done, that would be absolutely wonderful.”[/b]