Fighting like Children

That's not fair? Heh. It felt weird having someone be jealous of him. It had been a long time since that had happened. Nowadays it was always the other way around. For a second, Carmin wanted to shout out that life wasn't fair, but the desire was faint and disappeared again. Instead he just ended up saying "I started here in high school so there were choices in what I took. Sorry it wasn't the same for you."

When Ília sprouted wings, it caught Carmin off guard. He would've been shocked had it not been for the calmed state he was in. Instead his eyes just opened wide as it happened. The wings were honestly pretty beautiful. He couldn't help but let out a quiet "Whoa." As he admired them. They were just... blurry? Carmin lost his good vision once again.

He rubbed his eyes, but he couldn't get it back. Finally, he commented on the situation. "Who's doing it?" The question came out of nowhere and may not have made sense given the lack of context. It wasn't angry, but it might have been had he been capable of it at the moment. Instead the question was rather emotionless.

Apologizing to a fae was considered rude? What kind of backwards logic was that? Either way, Carmin had greater concerns than that. Namely, what was messing with his mind.

Ebviony's response to his question seemed to hint that it wasn't her, at least in Carmin's eyes. Though, in truth it was probably the randomness of the question and the lack of context that resulted in her reply.

Then there was Ília. She spread serenity? An aura that caused those nearby to become calm? That didn't really explain his vision problems and disorientation, but it did solve part of the mystery. That was the reason for his weird behavior. And it made sense, he seemed to lose his ability to get upset when she had shown up. He wasn't sure how he felt about that, but decided he'd leave it for now.

Then there was the fact that Ebviony mustn't have been affected by that serenity aura. They hadn't calmed down at all from this girl's presence. For now, he chalked that up to some sort of species thing. He clearly knew nothing about her species, so it was a likely candidate.

The other weird aura seemed to have been affecting Ília as well, so thankfully he wasn't just getting sick or something. Though the culprit behind that aura was still at large.

"I can hardly see at all." He looked in the general direction of Ebviony and asked again. "Are you doing this?" Carmin was sure that if he took a step forward or back, he'd fall. He relied heavily on his eyesight, and would be even less coordinated than usual without it.

It seemed that Ebviony disliked Ília's aura. It caused Carmin to wonder if he was actually okay with it or if he'd share an opinion with them had the aura not been affecting him. This was all an important lesson in aura bracelets. Carmin would have to research that sometime too.

When Ebviony explained that she was also causing weirdness, that put an end to the mystery. Though he couldn't help but wonder how students sitting in class would just put up with it. It was terrible. Though it seemed he was getting hit much harder than Ília. Perhaps he was just weak to auras or something, after all, he seemed to be weak to basically everything now. Though if it wasn't real, then maybe he could just blink it away. He tried shutting his eyes for a good few seconds then opened them up and looked around. Nope, still blurry.

He wasn't capable of getting mad about it, but he sort of understood anyway. About a month ago, when they were still trying to undo the curse, they'd tried a nullification bracelet on him and it had nearly killed him. "That's okay, I know those bracelets kind of suck, I can just put up with it."

What was he even saying? He would've normally reacted totally differently, this wasn't okay.