I made a couple minor breakthroughs today, nothing really big, but it’s something.

Talus got sick today. It isn’t anything serious, just something that happens every once in a while. She was vomiting and had a bad headache, so I kept her in bed in order to recover.

I examined her with magic to see if there was anything I could do to help her out, and no there isn’t. What’s making her sick is something that makes me think of a very poorly executed spell, not something I could mess with and not cause issues. I tried healing the symptoms, but that just made the thing causing them stronger. Though it did visibly grow weaker while I was observing it, so she is fighting it off on her own. Still, though, it’s not fun to see her in so much pain and being unable to do anything about it.

Mest examined Talus before saying that she should be fine and that it isn’t contagious. When I asked him what that meant he explained that sometimes when someone gets sick whatever it was that got them sick, be it a misfired spell, sabotage, or just the ambient mana happening to arrange in a particular way, can recreate itself and grow. Those cases almost always end in death for all but the most skilled mages, those with access to the most skilled mages, and the lucky. It’s good then that it is almost never contagious.

That’s also why Mest knows a thing or two about sickness. Apparently, some of the people at the head of his order are super paranoid about a sickness spreading and killing everything. As his order is one of the few groups with easy access to the right kind of mages to deal with that eventuality everyone was trained to protect themselves from sickness and recognize when one is contagious.

I hope Talus gets better quickly, hearing about how dangerous sickness can get has made me pretty worried about her. She should be fine, but I can’t help but worry about her.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.