They briefly parted soon after, with Hyura going for her tea leaves while David returned to his room looking for his salve taking 10 or 20 minutes.
At that point Hyura had already returned back to her room making tea and patiently waiting for David to come, the more she waited the more nervous she was getting as the realization of David coming to her room only started to settle in, he didn’t say anything about actually coming inside, but since she would open the door he would witness what was inside, causing Hyura to quickly survey her room and make sure it wasn’t messy or anything.
Fortunately, Hyura was a very clean person when it came to her own living quarters assuring her that nothing was wrong.
But while she was pointlessly getting nervous like this, David had already arrived in front of her room knocking on her door holding the vial of healing salve in his hands.
-Hyura! It’s me David!
-I’ll be right there!
Hyura said, taking a deep breath to calm herself, the only reason she was so nervous at this moment was because she saw something that she shouldn’t have, because of this all sorts of ideas went inside Hyura’s head that she couldn’t control, the accumulated stress for the past year also caused her to do something that made her even more regretful, but there was no point in complaining now since the milk was already spilled.
Hyura only hoped that she could quickly get this over with, she didn’t dislike David, it was just that now it wasn’t the best time for her to talk to him, in a sense she was already preparing herself to lead David around as she sort of looked forward to that.
-Everything is fine; you don’t have to think about what you saw.
Thinking that she was calm now, Hyura walked towards the door and opened it very casually, as soon as she saw David with the vial in his hands she again felt that weird tingling sensation between her legs, but she ignored it and rather focused on the vial.
-This is?
-It’s a healing salve, I wanted to give this to you because I saw how bruised your hands are, they look really painful which is why I am giving this to you, the salve is made out of some potent herbs so they are very effective.
David said, smiling as he gave her the entire vial, he still had 2 more of these vials plus he knew how to make them as well so he didn’t mind giving one to Hyura as a sign of friendship, the only thing that was really expensive here was the glass that was used to make the vial, but even the glass was low quality as it was very cloudy and not see through at all.
-You are giving me this because of my bruises? For me?
Hyura said, slightly startled as she didn’t expect for David to care so much, she found it sweet and heartwarming as well since she had never been given a gift like this before, her hands did indeed hurt very much from the bruises, but she learned to ignore the pain as she grew up because she already had been through loads of similar situations before, always healing by herself each time, not once did anyone give her medicine to heal afterwards other than her grandfather…
The memory of her grandfather made Hyura stop for a bit as she held the vial in her two hands, David saw how frozen Hyura was and wasn’t sure what she was thinking, he only hoped she didn’t think he was being a busy body, since everyone else ignored Hyura and her bruises he also followed suit, but now maybe it was better to have continued ignoring it.
-Thank you…I don’t know what to say, but thank you for the medicine.
Hyura quickly replied after she noticed how absentminded she was causing an awkward atmosphere, David was relieved at that as he was assured that she didn’t mind, he thought about saying goodbye at this point since he done what he wanted to do.
But just as he wanted to say goodbye, he saw Hyura opening the vial as she scooped up a blob of white salve from the vial looking at it and smelling it for a second before trying to put it into her mouth.
In context the amount of salve she scooped up was actually a very large amount, a salve is a cream that Is put on injuries and not meant for eating as it was poisonous, the fact that her immediate reaction was to eat it confused David as he immediately stopped her suddenly grabbing her hand.
-Wait! Stop!
His sudden grab surprised Hyura as she almost dropped the vial with her other hand, David noticed that as well as he too reached for the vial with his other hand trying to keep it from dropping.
In the end they succeeded in stopping the vial from dropping, but in turn the scooped up blob of salve she had on her finger started to follow the laws of gravity as it rolled off and made a splat on the wooden floor.
Both David and Hyura looked on awkwardly at the splat of Salve on the floor, but while Hyura was focusing on the splat she noticed how very close David was, the nightqueen perfume he used that morning had already evaporated, now the only way to spell it was to get very close to David which was about the distance they were in allowing Hyura to smell the nice smell.
Her mind immediately started to get cloudier as soon as she smelled David’s odor, her hands also felt very hot from David touching her, again she was reminded how David must have been the first ever man to touch her like this ever since her grandfather passed away, though this was clearly different from how her grandfather did it as she never felt this tingling feeling when she was touched.
It didn’t help that she constantly started to get reminded of what happened in the dining hall ultimately causing Hyura to get overheated, she hadn’t been well from the very beginning the bruises on her hands were actually the least of her injuries.
David didn’t know that yet, which is why it was even more surprising when Hyura suddenly shut her eyes and collapsed onto him.
He had people collapse onto him before like Syndra who usually did after orgasming, but he never had someone like Hyura collapse on him like that as she clearly went unconscious for some reason.
Panicked, David quickly caught Hyura into his arms, her voluptuous chest was very noticeable and she smelled nice as well also using some type of floral soap like Syndra, but David quickly tried to push away those indecent thoughts as there was clearly something wrong with Hyura.
-She is heating up…does she have a fever?
Feeling her body temperate with his, David could clearly tell how hot she was compared to him.
Knowing now that she had a fever David quickly carried Hyura back into her room, he didn’t focus much on the room, but he did notice that it was very clean and tidy, a bit minimalistic too with the decoration being only a stuffed bear that sat in the corner of the room.
David placed Hyura onto her bed, after doing so his first thought was to go out and find someone more qualified then him to look at Hyura and see what was wrong, but just as he was about to leave and find someone he realized that no one was actually inside the dorm other than the golem Milly, realizing this and knowing that finding someone outside would probably take a lot more time David started to hesitate whether or not he should leave and search for someone and leave Hyura by herself unattended or stay and try to take care of her himself.
In the end David decided that he should stay as he didn’t know whether or not he could really find anyone, by making this decision David now started to think about what was exactly wrong with Hyura, but just as he was thinking he noticed her moving uncomfortably in bed.
Knowing that she had a fever, David thought that he should first do something about that before anything else, going in the bathroom he fetched a small hand towel and soaked it in cold water before placing it atop Hyura’s forehead to down the heat.
-ughh…
It seemed to work very well as Hyura clearly looked more comfortable, but still she didn’t look completely fine which is why David tried to think what else he should do to combat the fever.
He brought a jug of cold water to keep Hyura hydrated and cool, she luckily still drank something when David put it near her lips showing that she wasn’t completely out of it but still semi-conscious.
Next he thought about taking off her uniform to lessen the heat some more, but the moment he had that idea he couldn’t help but be a bit embarrassed as he felt like some sort of pervert, in the end he convinced himself that it was fine since he was merely helping Hyura to get better, using a righteous reason as that he slowly started to strip Hyura down to her underwear noticing how she was wearing a very revealing type of red lingerie made out of some sort of silk, just seeing this started to make David feel hot inside as he didn’t expect something so mature, David quickly wanted to finish this and cover her with a thin blanket so he wouldn’t continue thinking strange things about her.
But just as he continued to reveal more of her skin he quickly noticed some discoloration in some parts of her skin that didn’t look good, he was a bit stunned at first before immediately noticing what those truly were.
-What?…these…these are more bruises…
Recognizing what he was looking at, David started to inspect her more closely, Hyura had a lot of bruises on her body, all of them were clearly caused by blunt trauma, connecting these bruises to the ones he had seen on her fists made David realize that Hyura must have been in a very tough fight, her opponents clearly didn’t hold back, and neither did Hyura as her fists were a testament to it.
Knowing this, David now knew why she had that fever as her body wasn’t in the best condition,
David didn’t really know what to think of this, but for now he decided to take care of Hyura before thinking about anything else as he picked up the vial of healing salve and started to put it onto Hyura’s bruises.
Those bruises were mainly on her upper body, back, waist and thigh area.
The amount of punches she received was really vicious but the fact that she didn’t suffer any other injury other than bruises really showed that Hyura had an incredibly tough body, her face was also in pristine shape indicating that she avoided hits to the head extremely well, though she was clearly not immune to pain as she winced whenever David smeared the salve in one of her more sensitive spots whilst unconscious, she probably felt this pain all this time when she was conscious but didn’t show it through her expression also showing how incredible her endurance was.
With David smearing the salve through majority of her body it was unavoidable that he was touching some forbidden area’s like her breasts and crotch area, but in the end David didn’t think about anything perverted while doing so and dutifully concentrated on helping Hyura before finally covering her in a thin blanket as she started to look far more comfortable then she did before with her expression easing up.
The salve had a cooling sensation whenever it was put on skin which is likely why Hyura was feeling so comfortable.
Ultimately this was the extend of what he really could do for Hyura, he continued to change the hand towel regularly after 30 minutes each time, Hyura calmed down significantly after the first hour of him taking care of her before finally she slept very peacefully as David looked over her.
David of course didn’t just look after her all this time as that would be boring, he brought along the books from the library he wanted to read sitting with a book in his while regularly checking on Hyura.
He didn’t really know when Hyura would wake up, but he decided to stay until she would or until someone came back preferably one of the professors.
2 hours past, in that time David was finally able to finish the first book from what he had left to read; he was about to go onto the second book before he noticed Hyura’s hand suddenly twitching, he turned towards her watching as she slowly started to open her eyes, she looked groggy from having just now woken up but overall David was relieved to know that she was fine.
Opening her eyes, Hyura saw the world with a dizzying spell, she could see a person sitting on a chair next to her holding a book, for a moment Hyura remembered how whenever she didn’t feel well and fell sick her grandfather would always stay beside her the entire time and take care of her whilst reading a book.
She always felt safe whenever she saw her grandfather the first thing whenever she woke up, she felt happy and fulfilled in their little mansion away from the politics of her family and the disdainful eyes her parents directed at her, thinking why she was born the way she was, Hyura’s parents never cared about Hyura as they couldn’t believe they actually gave birth to such a ugly girl and would rather forget about her, instead they decided to focus on their other children, Hyura’s younger siblings who were way more good looking then her, finally forgetting about Hyura entirely, eventually Hyura was exiled to her grandfather’s place where she was going to live her entire life, send out of the sight of her family and the public so she wouldn’t smear her family’s name.
But Hyura didn’t mind all that, she felt lucky even to have been exiled as she had finally found someone who cared for her, her grandfather Augustus was a widowed old man who lived by himself, he was the father of Hyura’s father and the previous head of their family, Hyura’s father and their grandfather had a dispute many years ago causing them both to no longer talk to each other anymore which is why she never interacted with him before.
At first Hyura thought that her grandfather wouldn’t be any different from her own parents, but as soon as she arrived she was quickly welcomed by him with open arms as he was extremely happy to see her treating her like his own daughter.
And he wasn’t just her parent either, he was her teacher too, Hyura learned how to fight from her grandfather who was once known as the Iron Blooded Duke, even though he was a male he never once lost on the battlefield against females stronger then him which has largely due to his unique martial technique, in turn her grandfather spared nothing to teach Hyura about their family’s secret martial art, Hyura was talented as well succeeding at something her own father never could as he chose the way of a politician instead of military which was the origin of their feud between her grandfather and father.
Her grandfather loved the empire, Hyura didn’t know why but he loved his home country to the bone which is why he became a soldier to protect it, Hyura never understood this love for the empire that housed people that treated her with disdain as she didn’t like the empire at all, but since her grandfather loved the empire Hyura never made her own thoughts known as she simply respected her grandfather’s opinions regardless of what they were trying to keep those thoughts alive.
Hyura knew to a certain extended that her grandfather was just using her to fulfill a wish he never could with his father, but she didn’t mind as her grandfather’s love was real, she wanted to do anything to keep it that way training rigorously every day to meet his expectations.
But unfortunately all good things have to come to an end, her grandfather was old when she met him at the age of 7 and he didn’t have much time left either until finally he died of old age when Hyura had just turned 14.
A funeral was made, hundreds of people including his own family she hadn’t seen for 7 years now, even the imperial family showed up to honor their hero who gave his everything for the empire.
Hyura was bitter, the day her grandfather died she felt was like the day her only family was taken from her, she grew resentful and full of rage, but since she had no outlet for this rage she felt she could only keep it inside as she continued to live her life day by day.
Now living all alone inside the cold soulless mansion her entire world had turned upside down as she was once again met with loneliness and bitterness.
Hyura was eventually again send away by her family to this esteemed academy, the reason she was send here was because the imperial family gave Hyura’s family a spot for the Ravenwing Academy for everything her grandfather did for their empire which was huge as everyone knew how difficult it was to get into the academy even if you had connections as talent was considered the most important aspect to become a student there, but now that they had the imperial family’s promise they could send whoever as long as it was within their own family, the person was below 15, and had the basic talent required to attend the academy.
Her family originally didn’t want to send Hyura to such a good place but rather send one of her siblings, unfortunately for them none of her siblings had any talent in magic, only Hyura possessed talent good enough to attend the academy as she had a soul star rating of 4 while also possessing a high ranking affinity for the Blood Element.
Hyura’s family couldn’t not send anyone as the imperial family knew of the results of their magic tests, sending someone was mandatory if they didn’t it would be like a slight to the name of the imperial family which no one dared to cross eventually forcing Hyura’s family to send Hyura as she was the only one who could go.
Seeing the shape of her familiar grandfather again, Hyura couldn’t help herself as she called in slight delirium towards that shape while reaching towards it.
-Gr..and…father
Unfortunately, the voice didn’t entirely reach him, but David did see what she was doing, seeing her hold her hand towards his he gently held it as he saw that she didn’t look very fine, he wanted her to calm down which worked very well as Hyura felt safe within David’s grasp.
-Don’t worry, you should continue resting I will watch over you.
David said, trying to reassure her, to Hyura the entire time she was thinking that it was her grandfather who was holding her, eventually she gently fell asleep again closing her eyes.
And for the first time in a long while Hyura dreamed about her grandfather as they stood behind their mansion training, reading books and laughing.
A Place Of Legends 