A Familiar Void

Chapter 12

Where was she?

Everything is so dark, she couldn't see a thing.

She tried to feel her way around, but quickly she realised that she wasn't on the ground. Gravity finally took over, and she had grabbed whatever was in her hands to keep from falling.

Where was she?

The air was so hard to breath.

She tried to pull herself up, but she was too weak. She needed help, she reached out forward.

Her eyes saw something.

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Louise's eyes opened. She stared upwards at a bland looking ceiling, her narrowing in confusion. Slowly she sat up, and realised that she was lying on top of a, rather uncomfortable, bed. She looked around.

'The infirmary?' She thought to herself, as she looked at the rows of simple beds, curtains, and occasional patients that were lying in the former.

'What am I doing here?' She looked down at herself, and noticed that she wasn't in her uniform. It was a simple white garb, meaning that she had changed.

'Did I pass out?' A hand went to her head, and she remembered what had happened. She had spent most of the day trying to cast a spell, drenching herself and the ground with water when she merely failed over and over. Then... She managed to cast a spell, forming the water in a large whip. Then there was the exhaustion, her falling, the water and her calling for help that, and receiving no response.

It was then she finally noticed that someone was sitting next to her on a chair, turning her head away from her body she saw Bug. Its head was tilted down, making it seem like it was asleep.

That was right, her Familiar was with her.

"Bug," she said in a whisper.

Its head lifted up, and it stared at her with its empty eyes of it.

For a while Louise did nothing except return its stare. Then she asked

"Why didn't you save me?"

As if on cue, the door to the infirmary opened. Both of them turned their heads towards the door, and two students stepped in.

Kirche and Tabitha, both of them talking to each other. Well one of was talking, the other was still looking at the book in her hands as she walked.

Bug, upon seeing the red head, jumped off the chair it was in. Louise watched as it walked around her bed, and headed towards the far end of the room.

"And there it goes," Louise turned to see Kirche give an amused smile as Bug left. "I told you that if I get here it tries to get away from me, Louise must've trained it well." At that moment she caught sight of her newly awakened form, and her eyes widened "Oh Louise, you're finally up."

Confused she asked "What're you doing here?"

"I'm just visiting Louise," Kirche replied "You did almost drown in a puddle." Her eyes then went to the far end of the room "And making sure that someone is watching over you." She jabbed a thumb towards the direction of her Familiar "After I put you here, your Familiar tried to leave."