Supreme Magus novel Chapter 129

Derek woke up in what was unmistakably an hospital room. Even with a fuzzy head and a blurry vision, he knew there was only one place were so much white would belong.

The sheets, the blind, even the walls and ceiling were white. He tried to rub his eyes, but discovered his right arm was cuffed to the bedside, while the left one felt so heavy, he couldn’t muster the strength to lift it.

- "Must be the morphine. That or they tied me up." He thought. The last reasonable memory he had was about him killing the b*stard who had murdered his little brother.

"F*cking cops, couldn’t just let me die? I don’t know if it’s because of the brain damage or because they have heavily drugged me, but that was one heck of a dream."

He shook his head, trying to clear up his vision.

"A little too absurd, even for a dream, though. Magic powers, a mystical sentient girl tower, talking animals and a Kingdom in danger. It only lacked a pink dressed princess kidnapped by a fire spitting turtle to be more ridicule.

That, or me finding my happy ending with the girl in the tower. Heck, even if it was all inside my head it has been the most meaningful relationship I ever had." – He scoffed.

- "Really? I would have never assumed you would think of me that way." - Solus’ mind blush was so strong to overcome the boundary they usually kept to separate their innermost thoughts.

Lith managed to avoid screaming in surprise and embarrassment only because the blind was pulled away by Professor Manohar, that had come to check his conditions.

"How is my patient?" He asked. "Remember, the only acceptable answer is ’well and getting better’. If you die on me, you’ll ruin my statistics."

"Professor Manohar?" Lith was still recovering from the shock.

"So, it was all real?"

"I know how this seems, such an incident, if we want to call it that way, happening in the White Griffon academy is simply unbelievable, yet it happened. Odd, I perfectly regenerated your skin, yet you are all red up to your ears.

Are you experiencing any discomfort, or did you just have a wet dream?"

Lith’s brows furrowed, while his memory was finally returning.

"I..."

"Just a yes or no. I’m not interested in your fantasies."

Lith blushed even harder, but this time out of anger, for the complete lack of tact of his healer. _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

"No discomfort and no wet dreams. Thanks for your concern. Why am I cuffed? I don’t remember doing anything to deserve such treatment."

"Do you mean the chain? That’s no punishment, is just to prevent you from rolling on the wrong side. The wound is just barely closed, we still need to reattach your arm, after all. I would expect an accomplished healer like you to understand something so simple."

Lith turned his head abruptly, trying to touch the little stump where once was his arm, but the chain stopped him again.

At that point, Solus had regained enough of her cool to share her memories of the most recent events, bringing him up to speed.

"How long was I unconscious?"

"A few hours, is barely lunchtime." Manohar replied, right before casting a series of diagnostic spells that made Lith glow like a lightbulb.

"Everything seems fine. Your body heals magnificently, young man. Keep up like this, and you’ll get discharged in one piece before dinner." Manohar took out his communicator amulet, informing Linjos that the patient could receive visitors.

- "Remember to properly thank your friends. They gave it everything to save your life before Manohar arrived." Usually Lith would have objected at the abuse of the word ’friends’, but after looking at Solus’ memories he didn’t feel so sure about it anymore.

"Wow, Quylla really punched Linjos. Was it really so dangerous to move me at the time?"