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His burns had become better, he had been released from the infirmary, and Erich was rather eager to get back to doing what he did best. And what he did best was casing spells. He had been informed that he probably shouldn't be casting spells for a while, but he was going to do what his next favorite thing to do was. Hanging out, goofing off, loafing around, what ever have you. He had missed his sister, Rhiannon, and though they didn't see eye to eye most of the time, she was still his sister. He and Jess were closer than he and Rhiannon ever were. But he pushed that thought out of his mind as he hung upside down on the monkey bars. It was early in the morning, before most of the third cohort was even awake. He hadn't been back to see Mika since he had gotten out of the hospital and there was no telling what sort of lecture he was going to get from Ken. He just felt so embarrassed about being in the infirmary for something stupid. Something had spooked that Fire elemental, his binding circle wasn't strong enough to contain a spooked elemental. So now he had scar tissue across the other half where he didn't have the lightening bolt scar from the war. His shirt draped over his head as he hung upside down, letting the blood rush to his head.

The Austrian boy pulled himself up from the upside down position as he then sat on the bars. Off to one side, of course as to not get in anyones way, though there was hardly anyone out at nearly four in the morning. He didn't know why he was out here, why he felt as if he needed the peace and quiet that came with the morning. There was little noise, little sound that could be heard, save for his own breathing. He had been so mad, so distraught, so vulnerable that his powers had been taken from his, even if it was ever so briefly. Never again did he want that to happen. He had to be stronger, if not to protect himself, but he had to do it to protect Mika. He had been so reclusive. Erich probably wouldn't have been surprised if Mika had found someone else to care for. He was so stupid. Erich knew he wasn't good enough for her.

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“You look like Deadpool after the cancer.” Rhiannon hadn't known her siblings too well. In fact she brushed them off altogether, but she was trying to be more honest with herself. That meant realizing she had wanted to get to know them better. A little bit of curious, and a little bit of they where trying first. Jess for one had come up to her again, and they had a little talk. A little lesson on how to work with the elements. Though it wasn't entirely up Rhiannon's alley. Runes, ceremonial magic, that was what she preferred. They were more stable once you got it together. Elements where way too emotional for her liking. Water was something like love and hate, two sides of the same coin after all. Fire was similar to excitement, and anger. Wind could be likened to joy, the uplifting sort of excitement that didn't necessarily make your heart race. Though earth was something she couldn't put her finger on. Earth was deeper, more resounding in the chest and heart.

It was time to figure out how to deal with person to person relationships she supposed, after all immortality wasn't enough of a punishment unless she grew to be attached to people. If done correctly this would be the worst punishment she could imagine, which was what she wanted. No more paranoia, perhaps the new body came with a new brain that was better at remaining in balance. Another idea was six months alone forced her to work everything in her mind out. Either way, she felt like a different person.

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"What is that supposed to mean?" Erich was quick to quick with a retort at whoever had decided to interrupt his thoughts. He looked over to see what or who was talking to him. It must have been a trick of the light, some manipulative demi-god or something of that nature. For a moment Erich thought he saw his sister whom he had currently been thinking about. What was this? Some sort of Beetleguise moment? Think their name three times and they would appear out of thin air? But he disregarded the thing he was looking at and looked around to see where the voice was coming from before looking back at the figure in front of him. He wasn't moving too quick at any rate, not if he was in such a sorry state. He had a weapon though he didn't know how much use the weapon would be since his range of motion was really restricted. So if something was attacking, he'd be that proverbial sitting duck.

"What do you want?" He questioned the wind nymph that looked just like his sister. Even if it was his sister, why did she suddenly care right now to bother to talk to him. To top it off, she was supposed to be dead. Necromancy was a big no no in his book and he knew a child of Pluto who happened to agree with him. "Aren't you supposed to be dead?" He questioned as he stared at the thing that looked like his sister. He just waited for simple confirmation that he was seeing what he actually thought he was seeing.

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Who would honestly expect the dead to, well, not be dead anymore? To expect someone to come back to life was probably some named mental illness, which she probably had. After all if Edmund or Joshua died she'd maybe wait a little while for them to come back on their own, and if not bust open the gates to hell. Literally. Perhaps Trivia had a similar feeling. Goddess known to be the queen of ghosts, and who turned young women into nymphs? Strange. Though gods have turned their kids into plants or pillars to keep them from dying before. Kind of similar.

“Hi, yeah. Real.” was Rhiannon's reply to that disbelieving attitude. Looking around to see who could be pulling this kind of joke. “If I remember right you don't like messing with dead things. Laws of magic? Right anyway. Not a ghost, or a zombie, or a lich. Nymph. What I mean, is you look like you've got more scar tissue.” To be honest that might have been the longest sentence she spoke to Erich. She wasn't entirely sure. Though he looked to be more concerned with certainties than she was at the moment.

What did she want? “Uhhh...” that wasn't exactly a question she could answer herself right now. Talking was not what she wanted. Never has she wanted to talk to people, but it happened to be the most legal form of getting to know someone. It was alright though, since his next question came fast enough for her to switch gears. “Yes. Yes I am. But Trivia turned me into a cloud Nymph instead.”