Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20160714040922/@comment-28358106-20160720041142

After several seconds of silence, alarm growing in his expression,  Ibrahim bolts past Hound wordlessly. Hound sees him disappear into the clinic, dodging people. As Hound continues to follow him, he hears Simrit trot up behind, out of breath. "Well, bugger it," she pants. "Late anyway."

Hound follows where he knew the Doctor to go. He walks past everyone, going up the stairs, to the room where Regina and the children were kept. There he sees Melandil, outside the door, which is left cracked, light pouring from between. Melandil notices his approach, and motions for him to be quiet. He then steps aside to allow Hound to look inside. He does, expecting to see the worst. Instead,  he sees something else.

The children sit in various seats, their eyes closed. Aegis lays next to Regina on a large bed. They both seem to be asleep.

The room is illuminated with runes, and sigils. They glow from the wall, they hang in the air, different sizes, different meanings. The other sigils are marks of the arcane, each a part of a whole, and their energies are being pulled through streams that lead to another. But this one...

Above Regina floats one, its marks making a gaping wound in the very fabric of reality. The Glyph. He cannot define it. He cannot look upon it for but a moment because it...hurts. It isn't bright. It isn't dark. But he feels as if he looks upon it too long, then the same will happen to him, that it will pull him, change him somehow...

And then he sees it. The Glyph takes the energies from the others, and is...weaving?...Aegis' wound together. Ibrahim concentrates, struggling to bend the Glyph to his will. After some time, he stops, exhausted. The sigils dissipate, and he sees them enter back into Regina's body. Then, when they disappear,  the Glyph wavers and enters her body as well. When it does, Regina arches her back and gasps, awakening. Ibrahim then leans over and gently cradles Aegis' body before sitting down with her in a chair, holding her as she awakens.

Melandil gently closes the door and looks at Hound. "Now you know," he says simply.