Dread Mage

Sonder struggled in her sleep, and then she heard a voice.

"You awake yet?"

She knew that voice to be Hiraeth.

She struggled once more before she finally arose, goaning because she felt a distinctive pain all over her body. The first time she felt it since he was raised.

"Hiraeth?" She said, holding her stomach, by the sword, where it was the most painful, "Where am I?"

The sprite was sitting by the nightstand next to her, in a chair specifically crafted for him.

"Are you the Jeasoul type?" Hiraeth asked her.

"Wha-?" She squeezed out before a woman entered her room.

She was tall and thin, but curvy, with beautiful, silky red hair. Though she looked youthful, she had the aura of a mature woman. She may have been the most gorgeous person Sonder had ever laid eyes upon.

"He didn't kidnap you, did he?" She asked Sonder.

But she could only stammer in response. The woman was patient, but as it was clear that Sonder wouldn't or couldn't respond, she disregarded the question.

"Vellichor," she called, "she's awake."

The mage came in, dressed in clothing much more casual than he usually wore.

"Ah, I was getting worried." He said and sat down in the bed next to her. "How do you feel?"

He put a hand on her shoulder, and Sonder winced back.

"I feel pain," she said.

"Come now, you can describe what you're feeling better than that," the woman said.

Slowly, Vell, put his hands around her body, like a doctor examining a patient.

It tickled, another sensation she hadn't felt since she was raised.

"This can be done much quicker. I don't know why you insist on using these... slow methods," The woman said and stretched out one of her hands, and a blue flame sprung from it.

It enveloped Sonder in less than a second.

She felt it passing through her entire body; The warmth and fear of burning.

In the meantime, Sonder looked at the woman, still somewhat amazed by her beauty, and said, "I'm sorry, but who are you?"

She retracted the blue flame and looked at Vell, somewhat disapprovingly. "Why, in your travels, you haven't told her about me."

A nervous smile was on Vell's face, "We've not been traveling together for very long."

"I can imagine," she said, "Then introduce us, will you?"

He looked at Sonder and said, "This is Limerence, my wife. And Limerence, this is Sonder, our daughter."

The two could do nothing but stare at each other after the introduction.