chronicles of Night Trials of fire and water

chronicle 22: Sacred space

Monday 1955 venice italy hospital( Ospedale Civile)  6 hours after Caleb passed out..

I don't know how much time passed where I was floating in a dimension of shadow, could have been fifteen minutes, could have been three hours, could even have been a week or two. There was no light, there was no sound, only a black sea that I was surrounded in.

It was hard to move, I felt my arms strapped to my side like I was roped around, drowning without dying. I couldn't speak, I couldn't hear, I could barely think what happened?
I faintly remember myself expelling all my energy outwards, and a room was filled with the energy of my body, on top of using a power before void breaker, I remember it, I used it twice, the first time against Gabriel, and then...I used many spells this time, some way advanced do I call myself advanced? no, it wasn't my body, there was no way I could have released that much, I was still so very young, then the world suddenly opened up, and I released power like no other force on earth. "Then why am I here, did I lose, yes, why did I fail, why am I..here?"

"Because you overdid it, you need to balance how much power you spend at once, stop throwing spells left and right for everything, you need to practice on your own power, and save your power for when your need it, but you did much, but you then overestimate the entity, and underestimated yourself...and now you are here, you need to practice and adapt only then can you do better next time"

"There won't be the next time, I died, the entity won..."

A laugh came from the darkness and suddenly a bright light revealed the beast that spoke, a creature in shadows, with blue eyes, huge like the size of a school bus, it looked like a cat, a lion, no a tiger, or a bear, even a dingo it stepped forward towards me, and nudged me with its snout and I could see in its eyes that I was in an ambulance stretcher on a boat, Kali and Sarah and even Judas was there with me, watching me and watching each other, they were talking trying to figure out why I haven't woken up, and my eyes widened.

"Why? W-why haven't I woken up? What's keeping me here in this hell?" I say rather sharp and the creature looks taken back.

"Hell, dear Ciaran? Do you think your sacred space is hell? This is where you go to regroup to relax, this is where Arcanians go to recharge this is your sacred space, I mean you can think of it as hell we have our ideals of being alone, but let me ask you what are you feeling right now?"

I growl and clench my fist as I start to squirm. I don't want to be here, then it occurs to me.

'Wait my wounds, my energy is replenished, I'm healed but how?

"Your an arcanian, a Warlock, this space, your sacred space is your greatest weapon, and to answer your question, the reason you haven't woken from this space is that I haven't let you...until now, farewell Ciaran we shall meet again real soon" and suddenly, my world blurs again as I suddenly grew tired, arms began to freeze, and I felt my body separate as I lifted myself, and suddenly I open my eyes, and the first thing I get is the voice "So you're saying that a group of anarchists vandalized the church and set fire to it and you four were trying to stop it?" Judas nodded and held out a badge. "I'm with the Vatican, working with the Carabiniere, to bring down these church vandalizers, and these three are my help, this here took some rather nasty blows, and we are waiting for him to come around if you want I can let you know when he's up and around to give his statements and you got these two"

The male and woman nodded, one writing in a handheld, and the other crossing his arms.

'Professor...Lastra can we get you to fill out some paperwork?"

The woman asked, and the two-headed over to a pair of doors, leaving Sarah and Kali with the male officer. Time started to tick and the male was getting antsy.