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Whisked Away Chapter 5
While
Gerrit waited outside the ward, Davis slipped through the double door back
inside. His bag was sitting right next to the bed he took a forced nap on
earlier. Luckily it only looked a bit dusty so he still had hope that the
display on his phone didn't crack. Maybe it would even have magical reception to
earth. To better get it from the ball of clothes inside Davis sat down the bag
on the bed. Ms. Lia's little chinchilla jumped up to see what was going on.
"Hey there little guy." It looked funny to see a grey chinchilla with a green
aura around it. Surprisingly enough the small creature even let Davis pet it's
side. It was fluffy as expected but as soon as the finger touched the body
something was off. Instead of being warm it rather felt like he was dipping his
pointer finger into a planter filled with cold earth. "Aren't you a bit cold?"
Ms.
Lia made her way over, leaving her only other patient to sleep. "You felt her
skin? Usually she only does her job, my little Cloudian isn't one to be cuddled
by patients. Now you are wondering, right?"
"Yes,
why is her skin like clay or earth?" Meanwhile Cloudian sat down in Davis's
palm and began scratching her ears and butt. Smiling he scratched her some
more.
It
really surprised the elven woman now. For a familiar to be this at ease in
someone else's palm the person had to have a really good connection either with
the master or to it's nature. "Cloudian is a summoned earth familiar. Her form
is temporary, she IS made of earth. You seem to have a way with her."
Davis
giggled as the familiar sniffed between his fingers with its little nose. The
whiskers tickled the skin. "I don't know. I could always just go up to any animal
I've seen and play and cuddle them. Doesn't matter if it's a friend's dog who
isn't good with men or the snobbiest cat. Do you think I could get such a
familiar too? With Gerrit's ring I was able to roleplay as a leaf blower."
"You
said your town had no monastery and Gerrit was able to teach you during that
short period? I am sorry that no one could recognize your talent up until now."
Usually scouts from other towns or smaller schools than Academia would visit
the villages without a monastery nearby to find promising young people.
Embarrassed
Davis began scratching his head. "Don't worry, I'm from far away, we don't have
any magic at home. It'd be cool though! People would find ways to be an ass
about it so maybe it's better that way. We got enough
problems as is." With a pained smile Davis looked at the elf. "It's always us
versus them. Either in school or somewhere else on the world. Wish people could
be the people they want to be."
"Your
words carry a deeper meaning than you want to let on young man. Young people
your age should not worry about all the injustices in the world. Go out, have
fun and learn. The Professor told me that you just popped out from one of his
experiments and he doesn't know why it spit out you in particular so enjoy your
time while it lasts. That crazy fool will have a solution very soon. He's
determined to send people from one place to another. I still prefer horseback
or air ship. Who knows what happens to your body in those portals."
"I'm
hiding some things from my parents and my best friend. Sometimes it's hard to
just go out and have fun. Aside from the way I got here it's really interesting.
I'll make sure to put your advice to good use." Davis liked the nurse and her
familiar a lot. She seemed like a kind hearted woman.
The
door behind them opened and Gerrit slipped his head through. "Davis? The
Professor is waiting for us, don't make me get pecked again by his damn raven."
"Mr.
Levisay. Are you badmouthing your master's familiar? If only he knew what a bad
apprentice you are." The elf tilted her head making it pop out behind Davis's.
"Oh
Ms. Lia...didn't see you there...I hope you won't tell the Professor what I just
said. I don't want to do a fifteen page essay on some dwarven architecture or a
civil war 400 years ago, pleaaase?" Gerrit knew the
weird topics that the Professor chose for extra homework. He never fell victim
to them but heard other students groan and moan about it for days.
"Only
if you never dare talking bad about one of your teachers again. Now go before I
change my mind. You'd do well as my assistant for a few days." Winking in
Davis's direction the nurse let her familiar climb up her arm and turned away.
Smiling
the visitor rummaged through his bag for a second to pull out his smartphone.
The display had no more scratches than those from before the crash. It had no magical
connection back to earth. Wi-Fi wasn't available either but that should've been
a given. "Let's turn it off to safe some battery" thought Davis. "Without
reception I won't be able to get any messages anyways."
Academia
was a gigantic complex of hallways, seemingly endless corridors and an infinite
amount of doors. Sometimes the doors were placed more randomly but on their way
towards the Professor's office the two of them walked past the sleeping area
for all third year students. Upon further questioning Gerrit explained that
every year about fifty new boys and girls enrolled in Academia. One year they
had twenty seven girls, the other it were twenty six boys but in general the
administration had three ten bed rooms for boys and girls available. "At one
point they decided to split older students into two or three bed rooms. With
like six boys in one room it could get really chaotic." Gerrit grinned knowing
exactly what he was talking about. Only two years prior some seventh year
students flooded and set a room on fire in the same night. When Gerrit became a
fourth year student the next year he suddenly only had one room mate instead of
five. Spacing out while walking Davis let his gaze wander into other windows.
It felt like every five meters a window was there to let the sun shine in.
At
one point where there were two hallways to choose from Davis looked through
another window towards the far side where the hallway connected two buildings together.
What he saw drained all the color from his face. At first it only was a boy
with dirty blonde spiky hair coming out of a classroom behind other students
but as the group dispersed and the students went their separate ways with
friends Davis recognized his best friend immediately. Without even thinking
about it the boy looked to his left and to his right, only seeing a staircase
at the end of the right hand corridor. "Fuck" he murmured taking off running.
He didn't even hear Gerrit yelling behind him. His mind was racing with all
kinds of questions. Stupid long hallways with their even more stupid high
ceilings. To move just one floor down Davis had about thirty stairs and a small
platform between him and his crush. Just like earlier that day he ran down the
stairs and jumped, skipping about seven stairs on the platform and the way down
to the first floor. More and more students were filling up the hallways, having
finished their morning lessons. "Maron!?" the boy yelled taking off again. What
sense of direction he had of this place was vague to say the least. As he
reached the other building following the same way his best friend went he
couldn't see that silky smooth and spiky hair anywhere in the sea of students. The
urge to run even further was strong but so was Gerrit's sudden grip on his hand.
While
Davis didn't even break a sweat running and dodging several dozen students
Gerrit was gasping for air maintaining a deadlock on the other's wrist. "What
was that for? Why would you run off like that?"
"Didn't
you see him? Maron came out of that room over there. He was talking with other
students like they were friends." Davis pointed to a door just a few meters in
the direction they both just came from.
Gerrit
got even more confused. "That was the guy you wanted to play those videogames with?"
Checking twice the mage confirmed that the room was a classroom. "No way your
friend's here. You must be seeing things. Or you're just tired."
Maybe
Gerrit was right. It was already around half past four when he drove off with
his bike and in this world it seemed to be only noon. Plus he did drive into a
damn bookshelf. "You...you're right...how could Maron be here. I bet he's sitting
in his room bombarding me with text messages and tries to call me to tell me
how lazy and late I am. If only he knew..." Seeing or hallucinating his best
friend's doppelgänger made Davis think about home, putting a severe dampener on
his mood.
"Hey. Don't pull that face. We just
have to go to the Professor and he's gonna tell you that
we can send you home in no time. I bet by tomorrow you will be with your friend
again. Recreating the steps to make the portal appear is a no brainer!" Gerrit
could imagine how hard it was for Davis. He himself could only see his mother
and little sister for a month and a half during one year. "Come on, we don't
need more attention on your person than is."
Who was that mysterious boy that Davis saw? Could it
really be his best friend or was it just coincidence? Maybe even a
hallucination from over exhaustion? Keep on reading to find out ;)