Soaking wet, he was slumped against the rotten wood sidings of a building. With a drifting consciousness and vision remaining in his right eye only, he heard the banging of heels and a scream before he saw her.

"Silco!"

The sex worker's voice was relieved, but bore signs of her distress. Her boots slipped on the muddy ground as she ran into the alley, causing her to stagger.

"I've been looking for you everywhere. Have you seen Van..?" The sight of his injury turned her question into a mere gasp. "Y... Your eye!" she exclaimed, astonished, as her own both widened in shock.

She dropped to her knees and onto his lap in a haste, inches away from straddling his left thigh. The tender way she cupped his face reminded him of the embrace she had given him before he left for the bridge, another rare display of her affection for him.

Silco watched her silently, as she felt the moist blood underneath his pierced eye. He noticed her irises had turned a vivid shade of purple when she had realized that he was wounded. There was rainwater hanging from the curled strands of her hair.

"Maybe I can..." she began, almost speaking to herself.

She started snapping her fingers and attempting to trace some runes in the air, with a frustrated frown of concentration.

She added, "When I find the miserable d!ck who did this to you..." Her voice trailed off.

She was too focused on her failed enchantments to see her friend's ironic smile.

So, she truly had not found Vander before him...

Blue sparks escaped her fingers and runes made of blue vapor lit up only momentarily before fading into the foggy atmosphere.

With a desperate groan, the young woman cursed herself for not having practiced harder. The aspiring mage was too frazzled and inexperienced to cast anything.

However, if there was one thing she had learnt from her sisters' teachings, it was that magic could not fix everything.

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