Grabbing on to her wrist softly, Sol observed the injury with an intense gaze for a while before his gaze softened once more,
'while it looks like a puncture wound, the shape doesn't resemble that of a fang,' he thought,
'nor can I think of any prey that would bother spreading its filth by biting a hand, instead of the throat.' Without letting go of her hand, Sol started gathering mana to his other hand for the purpose of molding it into a low level regeneration spell, the process was not visible since he was not in a hurry to call mana to himself. Being primarily a hunter, he was not very good at healing magicks at all, but he assumed that what he
did have should be enough for Jill's minor wound.
"Any idea on what caused this wound?" He asked, having noticed the unnatural and heavy distortions in the magical weave which had started approaching form all sides, but not paying it much mind for the moment. After all, whatever it was, if it was
magical it would not work properly or at all so long as his seal was active, and it should be so for a while yet. Of course, divine and blessed magicks were an exception, but he doubted that there were any other beings around that believed in the divine to
that extent. Unfortunately however, the sudden burst of disturbance had caused him to lose track of the slowly distortion he was tracking for a while.
"Something feels wrong," Jill said, almost in a whisper, looking rather alarmed and uncomfortable.
"Something is wrong Jill.... in fact, this entire forest is wrong," he said, the mana gathering procedure almost complete,
"which is why, I'd like you to head straight home after I see to your injury... and forget everything you saw here.."
'...and will be seeing in the near future.'
Once he was done gathering the low amount of mana required for the Rank-D regeneration spell, Sol closed his eyes for a moment, converting the gathered mana into the required frequency using his magic circuits before uttering a word in a language unknown to those who is not literate in the language of the holy scriptures. Subsequently he opened his eyes and put his free hand on top of the bleeding wound, causing the spell to activate immediately. Jill would not feel anything special from the activation, except perhaps a subtle warmth passing form his hand onto the wound. When he removed his hand, the wound had already clotted and was regenerating visibly, and at an alarming rate.
'If this is indeed an infectious wound, the virus will not be cured through this...' he thought,
'but we don't have the time for a full investigation and purging.'
'I'll just have to see to that when we're out of here.'
As he was about to try to investigate the reason for the heavy distortion, Sol suddenly became aware of the sound of someone approaching. It was more apparent now that the natural sounds of the forest had abruptly ceased. The sound took the form of leaves crunching, twigs and small branches being crushed underfoot, as if someone was trying their best to be detected. Taking one glance at Jill, and then turning to face the direction from which the sounds were approaching from, Sol decided to call out. [[ @
Arachna ]]
"Whoever you are, I think you have made your presence abundantly clear by now. So may I ask that you come out?" He said, in a tone of voice just loud enough that one could hear him from over the immediate surroundings. Subsequently he turns again, this time towards the direction where a sudden black mist was flowing in from,
'I think recognize this,' he thought.
'but I don't think it would be of any use as long as my seal is in place.'
Glancing towards Jill, he decided to reassure her of this,
"..we should be safe here for a while, so I believe you can rest easy for now," he said, before adding in a soothing voice,
"I know it's difficult, after having encountered what you just did, but we need to try and deal with our problems one by one."
Having said his piece, Sol turns in the direction of the approaching footsteps once more, also wondering about what had happened to the owner of the strange singing voice he had heard a while ago. [[ @
Lovely. ]]