The Aspiring Archivist

"I'm not doing anything. I'm no legal authority. I imagine she'll be questioned, and other such proceedings. She did just confess to harming a person in a way that could very well have led to their death."

Julie and the doctor both stared at her in shock for a moment. Then the doctor muttered something under his breath, and Cinder felt a binding force on her, freezing her in place. He turned to Julie and Daniel. "Would you two please locate the authorities?" @Ookla the foolish

"Someone or something did that to him."

"Yes, but there is still a very present potential danger in the town and university now."

"Please. If someone is out there who would do this to someone else, it's important to know as much as possible so authorities can find who's responsible."

"What do you know?"

"I don't know." The medic finally turned towards them. "Do any of you know how he received those wounds?"

She did so, staying their until she stopped shaking and regained coherence. "I really thought that that man... that he... this is all so much."

She sobbed quietly into her hands. The medic continue to examine the man. He seemed to be coming back to himself, slowly.

The medic continued to work away, and eventually the light stayed somehow, a small glowing spot on either crystal. He struck them together one final time, and the quartz dissolve in his hands. He touched the bleeding man's head, and the cuts, breaks, and bruises all just... vanished. In an instant. Julie let out a long sigh of relief, and slid down against the wall of the alley, burying her face in her hands and breathing deeply. @Ookla the foolish

The medic quickly pulled a two large pieces of what looked like quartz out of a satchel and struck them together, causing flash of light where the two made contact. He did it again, twice, three times, seeming to concentrate deeply on the strange action.

Minutes later, Daniel's hands now covered in the other man's blood, Julie reappeared with a tall man in a medic's uniform. "Stars above."

She ran off as fast as she could. The bleeding man remained still.

After looking at the broken man for a few more moments, Julie found that she had to turn away. "I... I definitely cannot help with that. He needs a healer, now." @Ookla the foolish

He wasn't quite passed out. In fact, he never had been. But he stared forward sightlessly as his blood soaked through the cloth that had been placed on his wounds. Immediately, Julie felt sick, but she tried her best to maintain composure. "What... what happened?"

Julie followed, but looked back at Daniel pleadingly as she exited that classroom. @Ookla the foolish

"Look. There is absolutely nothing I can do about this other than help you bring this person to an an actual healer or do it myself. So if you're for some reason concerned about secrecy over this person's safety, I can't help you."

"What do you mean by 'dealt with?' I'm not going to do anything to Daniel."

Julie look between them, still quite pale herself. "I... uh."

"Why not?"

"Okay..."

She inhaled shakily, then exhaled. "Okay. Daniel?" @Ookla the foolish

"There's an office in every building."

"Can we just take them to the medics? And you don't come?"