***
The healer wiped her hands on a white cloth as her Divinity finished settling around Ignotus.
The bleeding had stopped, and the bone-deep aches faded second by second. Ignotus rotated his shoulder a few times before standing up, finding his body functioning as normal.
"Thanks."
The healer blinked as if expecting something more, but no. That was all she was getting.
He casually walked back to his place in the lecture hall, the massive amphitheater buzzing with whispering students who kept pretending that they weren't staring at him like he'd grown a second head.
His people sat like how they always sat, or well, they tried to, at least. Right now, the only one acting normally was Eris, who hopped straight into his lap the moment he returned. 'Good job.'
She purred in his mind, sounding very smug.
Ignotus scratched behind Her ear in thanks.
"Yeah."
And that was that.
