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The story:

“Donal!!!! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!”

“I AM HERE PATRA. I AM SORRY THAT I AM SO LATE. THE GEORGISTS SET A TRAP FOR ME AND I STUPIDLY WALKED INTO IT.”

“Donal is dead! He is dead, Orlando! What am I going to do? What am I going to do?” I screamed and wailed and sobbed hysterically.

“Mama?” It was little Loysa. Confused, I looked at her, trying to understand why she was here and how she managed it. “Mama? Up?” I gently placed Donal back onto the ground and picked her up to take her into the cottage. She touched my face. And with her touch, I felt power rushing from her into me. My vision turned golden again and somewhere within me I summoned all of my love and passion. I then touched Donal’s wound and said, “Elama e ravima!” [Return and heal] and sent this power into Donal’s body. Donal started to glow golden. His body jerked and then he moaned. Within seconds, Donal began to breathe again and his eyes opened.

“Patra I … am alive!” Donal sat up slowly, looking quizzical. “I saw the thrust and felt it go through me … but I am now alive?”

“PATRA AND LOYSA DID SOMETHING THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE DO BEFORE. THEY BROUGHT YOU BACK TO LIFE WITH JUST A TOUCH AND A WORD. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.”

Putting Loysa down, I threw my arms around Donal and to hug him, kiss him and sob hysterically. Donal returned my hugs and kisses. It took me quite a few minutes before I could stop and mentally compose myself.

Donal looked sad for a moment. “I failed you again. Some man I am…”

“Look at me, Donal. I. Love. YOU!!! You are the best, most wonderful man that I have ever known. I don’t ever want to hear you belittle yourself again! You only started practicing swordsmanship three months now. Jaizel practiced it for forty-seven years. That you took him on without thought of your own wellbeing took enormous courage. You are such a courageous man. You are the only man that I want.”
To prove it, I gave him a huge kiss.

After reflecting on the events that just happened, I looked at Orlando. “I don’t know what just happened here. I did magic, but I don’t know how I did it or where it came from. When you tried to teach me, Orlando, I failed miserably.”

“I HAVE AN EXPLANATION, BUT THIS ISN’T THE TIME OR PLACE TO GIVE IT TO YOU. NORA AND THE CHILDREN COULD RETURN HOME AT ANY TIME. DO YOU WANT THEM TO SEE THIS?”

“No. You are right.” Although I felt extremely tired, I managed to summon enough energy to get up and walk.

“YOU TWO GO CLEAN YOURSELVES UP. I WILL DISPOSE OF THE BODY.”

“No!” Donal protested. “If Jaizel disappears, by all the laws and customs that I know of, Patra will have to wait ten years before she can have him declared legally dead. I don’t want her to wait that long. I don’t want to wait that long. If his body is taken to the authorities here, Patra will be a widow immediately.”

“I HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. YOU ARE CORRECT.”

Orlando turned into his human form and he and Donal approached the body. When they came within ten feet of the body, Orlando suddenly reverted to his true self. Puzzled, he tried to morph back, but was unable to do so. He walked away about five feet, tried morphing again and succeeded. When he came again within ten feet, he transformed back again.

‘THIS IS VERY ODD. I KNOW THAT JAIZEL HAD NO MAGIC IN HIM, BUT EVEN IF HE DID, IT SHOULD HAVE DISAPPEARED WHEN HE DIED.”

Donal walked over to the body. He prodded it a couple of times with his foot, with no response. Donal then kneeled down and searched it. On the inside of Jaizel’s leather armor, Donal found pockets that contained quite a few round stone disks, about three inches in diameter. Mystified, Donal lifted them up and showed them to Orlando. “You usually don’t find stone disks as part of armor.” He got up and brought them over to Orlando, but when the disks came within ten feet of him, Orlando reacted as if acid had been thrown on him.

“GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!” Orland exclaimed. When out of range from the disks, Orland said, “I HAVE NEVER SEEN OR READ ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE. I HAVE HEARD OF MAGIC REPELLANTS AND NULLIFIERS BEFORE. BUT THEY WORK ON EVERY KIND OF MAGIC. THIS APPEARS TO NULLIFY DRAGON MAGIC ONLY. SINCE IT DIDN’T PROTECT AGAINST PATRA’S MAGIC, IT APPEARS TO BE NARROWLY FOCUSED. DONAL, IF YOU WOULD TAKE THOSE DISKS AND HIDE THEM SOMEWHERE, WE NEED TO SHOW THEM TO THE COUNCIL OF MAGIC USERS IN RAWN-DEVU, WHEN WE FINALLY GET THERE.”

Once the body was free of the magic disks, Donal and Orlando carried the body to the wagon. Orlando hitched the ox to the wagon and drove into town.

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