Time had passed -Jayni was sure of it. How much, now that she could not answer. The sun had moved, definitely but she was never really sure how proportionate the sun's movement was with the time. She had thought about getting up, she really had, but that took energy, and that took dealing with more of the pain – and that just made her unmotivated. Surely she should go to the city, get herself looked at, report her information on the missing stones, the thief, the mage, but that didn't even seem important at the moment.
The grass beneath her back pricked her skin and made it itchy, she still didn't move, at one point she began counting clouds – until she had counted all of them in her vision, which wasn't many at all. She wanted bun-bun back, and she wanted to undo everything that had happened in the last half hour, fifteen minutes, hour? She wasn't sure, but she wanted it all to go away. At one point she thought she had convinced herself to get up, but before really moving she had given up again.
Her trip to Irakix was not supposed to go like this. She was not supposed to be attacked. The stones, some stones- whatever they were were not supposed to be stolen. The bell- alarm was not supposed to be ringing off in the distance. She felt like her whole trip was a waste and that she might as well just get up, walk back to the portal and have the spirits send someone to bring her back to the Ruins with her sister. Yes – that was what she needed to do.
There were footsteps in the distance, this gave hope to Jayni, then she felt her blood run cold as she thought of the possibility of someone being sent to finish her off, or make sure she had died. She almost got up, but she saw the person who had entered the forest. It was a man with golden hair and armor he didn't look like an evil minion.
“Excuse me miss, are you okay?”
“Oh. Uh. Yeah. I'm just wonderful.” She said, the words caused her to cough -she hadn't spoken since the attack and didn't realize it was of any strain at all until now. When the mage pulled a card out Jayni flinched – she was still jumpy and half expected him to attack her – despite his apparent concern.
Then, Jayni felt her wounds practically disappear. A hand reached across her stomach and she didn't feel the wounds – not that she had felt them before, she was only certain there where there and did not want to alarm herself. But now, there was nothing, nothing but smooth skin. Jayni couldn't help but to laugh again. Not only had she survived but now she was healed – what a day. Wait til Praxmy hears this! She thought.. Her sister wouldn't believe a word of it.
Since she was healed Jayni sat up, but the mage was right, she would be in pain – it hurt. She let out a small groan as she braced herself to stand, and to her own surprise she could. It had completely slipped her mind that she might be capable of anything but lying on the ground – almost wallowing in her self-pity.
“Well, uhm. Thank you.” Jayni said as she looked at the man.
She hadn't even really noticed the second person enter the scene, but she heard him, and when she looked he was over by the pile of limbs. She cringed at the thought of the attack, of the spirits, of Bun-bun. Then he asked.
“Bun-bun.” She said quietly, walking over to see the corpse, she knelt down and grimaced in pain as she picked it up and held it close.
Jayni didn't have many words for what had actually happened. She, really didn't know how to explain.
“The result of spirits and energy.” was all she said before turning her back to the pile, she kept bun-bun close to her chest and petted the lifeless bunny's head.