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There wasn't much else to do for the day. Zephri decided to head to the lake for once instead of one of his usual perches on one of the school's towers. It was a nice change of pace. He found himself a nice tree to scramble up and snack on his beef jerky. This rival predators couldn't steal it, which was unlikely given where he was anyway.

After a few minutes he found himself slowly drifting off to sleep. But he wasn't quite sound asleep, he was still aware of things going on around him. Someone was approaching him. The scent was all to familiar, but he'd wait and see what they wanted for now.

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Andrasta had looked in all of Zephri's usual spots, and hadn't found him at any of them. It was sheer luck finding him out by the lake.

She noticed that he was sleeping, and she was hesitant to disturb that. But then, her mind started working - what if this had something to do with the stuff turning him to stone? What if he was turning to stone right now? Now she had to make sure she was okay.

"Hey. Zephri. Are you okay?"
 

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The second he heard Andrasta call out his name he opened his eyes and gazed down at her. He'd been getting questions like that lately. Yeah, he knew what it was about.

"Yeah? Why wouldn't I be?" he replied as he simply rolled off the branch and landed on the ground. He squinted at her. The whole mess with the elves and whatnot was still probably bothering her. "Are you okay?" he asked throwing the question back at her.
 

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She shrugged.

"I dunno. You're slowly turning to stone. Raenac died. I don't even know if half the people from there we met survived. I'm all healed now from what Ycroma did to me, at least, so there's that. But. I don't know..."

It was all a big mess. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to, for anyone, and they were supposed to just move on like that was fine.
 

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He paused for a moment, thinking of how to respond. Zephri could see things were bothering her. He stretched and yawned as if it wasn't a huge deal. "Eh, people need to stop fretting over me. I did what I did and I'll deal with it. Still..."

His voice trailed off and he sparked a little. "It feels wrong. Like we just fell in, made a huge mess, and left. There's no way back. So I guess I'll just have to live with that feeling... be stronger for next time."
 

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Andrasta nodded. "I guess you've got plenty of time to find a cure," she said. "Or figure out how to fight death." She smiled a little. "I was just worried you went all statue mode while taking a nap. If it's gonna happen, at least strike a cool pose before it sets in, right?"

Joking about it might help. Zephri seemed tired of everyone fretting about him.
 

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Zephri shook his head when she mentioned striking a pose before his petrification set in. "Nope, it's not gonna happen. I'm gonna make it work for me. I decide how I'm gonna live and how I'm gonna die," he sounded extremely confident in this statement.

"So uh yeah don't worry so much. I'll be fine, you'll see"
 

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Andrasta was blown away by the way Zephri was handling this. The sentiment really resonated with her, too. Deciding how he would live and die...

"Alright. I'll try not to worry then," she said.

"I kinda wanted to ask though. Cause it's been bothering me. What happened down at that lake when you took Raenac?"
 

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"Good," Zephri stretched and studied Andrasta for a moment. It was pretty obvious the whole ordeal had a big effect on her. She wanted the best possible outcome from it, but unfortunately none of that happened.

"Well, we healed her with the water. And then... we saw him fighting the prince so we left her behind. You know, for safety. And then... we wound up back here..." there was the faintest hint of bitterness in his last statement.
 

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"But how did you heal her with the water?" Andrasta pressed. "What did you do with it to heal her?"

This question had been burning in her for a while now: was this Zephri and Sylvi's faults? Did they do something stupid to kill Raenac? She was desperate to understand how this could happen, to make some kind of sense out of it.
 
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