POV: Elena Mercer

He was only gone for 3 days, but I had someone at my door telling me something was wrong with Kyle.

Why does God hate me so much?

I just want a healthy child, and after being blessed so much, this happens to him.

Kyle has a chronic disease that no Healing mage can cure.

Where is the next Saint Ajoras to heal my child?

I can only hope that he pulls through this like the other times, but his condition is always on the brink of death, as if picking up his hand would cause instant death.

I did not notice it, but the nurse has told me something very strange.

Kyle isn't digesting his food.

They fed him food every day and it goes in, but it just comes out the same way.

They stopped giving him food over 2 weeks ago and nothing has changed.

The clouds of fortune and death. Sometimes I see the fortune, but in times like these it is the death cloud that shows it's head.

POV: Beth Valheart

I told him to come to my room, but I had no idea this would happen!

What is happening to my friend?

Kyle was perfectly healthy that night, but it's already been over 2 months!

He is so good with magic, and I thought he could do anything... but this?

Kyle can't die!

I wouldn't know what to do.

But if he doesn't come back...

Should I have just said it in the courtyard?

POV: Florianne Charis

I only knew him for 2 days, but he was just so interesting.

Full types and paid the fee with coins?

Who is that guy?

I was worried when he didn't show up when we decided to meet in the morning because I thought he didn't like me, but to find out he was this sickly...

I have to do something when he wakes back up.

It can't be longer than 3 months right?

POV: Claire Drought

Kyle's letters have seemed a little strange lately, like he is using the wrong hand to write with. I wonder if it's broken? If it was broken, I would learn healing magic so I could fix it, but i'd only fix it a little bit and then i'd tell Kyle that I can only fix it a little every day and then he would come to see me every day so I could fix it and when it was fixed Kyle would be so happy he would see me every day.

I wonder if Kyle can use healing magic though...

POV: Kathy Drought

I can't do it much longer.

Claire is starting to catch on.

Elena told me what happened but...

How could it already be 4 months without any changes?

POV: Kyle Mercer

"What will we do with a poisoned slayer?"

"What will we do with a poisoned slayer?"

"What will we do with a poisoned slayer early in the dungeon?"

POV: Kyle Mercer, About 2 years ago.

FUCK! I'm in the FUCKING BLACK ROOM!

"Oh hey there. Didn't expect to see you so soon."

What is that cock sucker doing here?

"Fuck you Asura. Go suck a cock."

"Ooh, no need to be so harsh. I've been waiting almost 600 years for you to get here."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I'm sorry, I thought you maintained the same level of intelligence from those many years ago. It's been over 10,000 for me, so truthfully I've forgotten."

"You've been in this prison for 10,000 years?"

"Prison? This is Nirvana! Can't you feel it?!"

"No I can't feel it. It just feels like nothing."

"Ah, I remember the feeling. Feels like you have arms, but you can't see them. Then when you realize you can't see them, you can't feel them anymore. Soon it's like you never existed to begin with."

"Damn it! I'd be able to kill you if I had a body!"

"Good luck getting a body in Oblivion. Excuse me, but I've got a diner date with an Asurian princess."

Holy mother of God! The entire room just change into the throne room of a brilliant palace. Gold everywhere, stained glass windows with beautiful patterns... How is any of this possible?

"Go on, get."

AAAAAAHHHH!

POV: Kyle Mercer, About 3 days later.

Shit, the pain finally stopped. Felt like my heart was going to explode at any moment... but i'm in the black space again. It's empty, but the space I was just in was just like this before it changed.

Asura did something, and a palace appeared. It looked like he knew exactly what was happening. Was that Nirvana? What makes Nirvana so different from Oblivion?

Wait a fart fiddling minute. 10,000 years! That motherfucker has had over 10,000 years to get stronger than me! I can't beat that. I could catch up to a few years. Maybe a few hundred if I found a really great power in a distant corner of the continent, but 10 fucking thousand?

Fuck this gay earth.

POV: Kyle Mercer, About 8 months ago.

It's already been more than a year in this hell hole. I can't move, I can't see anything, all I can do is speak. I guess I can sing songs until I get out.

Hoo fuckin' ray.