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Re: One in Three Thousand (Courage Wolf)
Michael would listen intently to Anthriel's explanations, first about Dori and second about the sidhe. Whether he noticed her choice to lie by omission or not, the archangel would nod simply when the Nephilim had finished with her response about Dori, asking no questions, but when she spoke of Nameless' cryptic mentioning of another Nephilim his lips thinned. "That is.... Troubling," he replied calmly, and whether there was something more to his feelings or not was impossible for Anthriel to determine just then. "Wait here," he said, and then vanished without any sign of his passage.
A tense minute would pass before Michael returned, this time with a soft flash of white light and accompanied by Dori, still in his miniature draconic form and still seemingly comatose. "Is this your card?" the archangel asked dryly, and whether Anthriel replied affirmatively or not he would turn to face the dragon that he had teleported from the faerie glade squarely, running his hands over the black scales where they'd been pierced only a few moments earlier. "Mmmm.... Fungal spores? Creative.... And hard to remove, especially since they're enchanted... Normal magic wouldn't get rid of these, at best it'd slow them and at worst it would actually make them spread faster.
"Still, it's not impossible to cure." Closing his eyes, the archangel began to glow, power thrumming through him that grew until it was beyond even what Anthriel could conjure at the height of her desperation, and then slowly that power began to work itself into Dori. Golden light lightly flushed through the dragon, coiling around the area of his wounds, and through them Anthriel would see tendrils spreading from those sealed wounds deeper into the dragon's body, coiling slowly but surely toward his heart and up his neck towards his head. As the golden light followed them, however, it began make those tendrils shrink, destroying the parasitic fungus slowly but surely until only the core bundles of spores left by the spider's fangs remained, the most resilient portions and the last to be burned away by the archangel's magic.
After a few moments it was finished, and Michael opened his eyes and stepped back as Dori began to shrink, slowly returning to his human form, still completely naked and seemingly unconscious. "It is done," Michael said coolly, "he will live, and remain himself."
Michael would listen intently to Anthriel's explanations, first about Dori and second about the sidhe. Whether he noticed her choice to lie by omission or not, the archangel would nod simply when the Nephilim had finished with her response about Dori, asking no questions, but when she spoke of Nameless' cryptic mentioning of another Nephilim his lips thinned. "That is.... Troubling," he replied calmly, and whether there was something more to his feelings or not was impossible for Anthriel to determine just then. "Wait here," he said, and then vanished without any sign of his passage.
A tense minute would pass before Michael returned, this time with a soft flash of white light and accompanied by Dori, still in his miniature draconic form and still seemingly comatose. "Is this your card?" the archangel asked dryly, and whether Anthriel replied affirmatively or not he would turn to face the dragon that he had teleported from the faerie glade squarely, running his hands over the black scales where they'd been pierced only a few moments earlier. "Mmmm.... Fungal spores? Creative.... And hard to remove, especially since they're enchanted... Normal magic wouldn't get rid of these, at best it'd slow them and at worst it would actually make them spread faster.
"Still, it's not impossible to cure." Closing his eyes, the archangel began to glow, power thrumming through him that grew until it was beyond even what Anthriel could conjure at the height of her desperation, and then slowly that power began to work itself into Dori. Golden light lightly flushed through the dragon, coiling around the area of his wounds, and through them Anthriel would see tendrils spreading from those sealed wounds deeper into the dragon's body, coiling slowly but surely toward his heart and up his neck towards his head. As the golden light followed them, however, it began make those tendrils shrink, destroying the parasitic fungus slowly but surely until only the core bundles of spores left by the spider's fangs remained, the most resilient portions and the last to be burned away by the archangel's magic.
After a few moments it was finished, and Michael opened his eyes and stepped back as Dori began to shrink, slowly returning to his human form, still completely naked and seemingly unconscious. "It is done," Michael said coolly, "he will live, and remain himself."