Seventeen
Lucky Charm
Autumn 961 MC
Nikki sat on a woven reed mat, her back leaning against the stone wall of the temple. The Life Mage, Revi Bloom stood over her, holding her injured arm.
"How does it feel?" he asked.
"It aches," she replied, "constantly. Your healing magic doesn't work on it."
"The spell I cast knits the flesh, restoring it to its pristine condition. I would have thought that would at least alleviate the pain." He began unwrapping the wound, careful lest the strips of cloth pull on the injury.
Nikki looked away, instead examining the intricate carvings that decorated the chamber they were within. They depicted Saurians tending to the wounded and sick, and she wondered at the train of events that had brought them here.
"Strange how we came here, of all places," sh
