It took Blake a while to come to his senses. He didn’t remember blacking out at the top of the stairs. He also didn’t remember falling down the stairs, but his body was beginning to send signals of pain to his brain. The closest face to his was that of Sadie. She was bending over him, a concerned look in her eyes, and a hand moving the hair away from his eyes. Natan stood looking on with a look of confusion. And then there was Mage Zenith who stood away back clutching the book that Blake had tried to steal with an arrogant look of contempt spread across his face. Blake tried to give his mind the room is needed for the unscrambling of thoughts. He took a deep breath and realized that pain emerged even from that simple exercise. Natan and Sadie helped him slowly

