It took two hours for the two of them to wake up. Ruby woke up in a soft bed while Villin was tied up to a chair.
This was because of the actions Sara and Hawk took after seeing the two of them faint. They could only guess that the two of them had some sort of invisible battle and that they both knocked out.
Four minutes after Villin woke up, Ruby arrived in the room he was tied up in, and so she quickly released him under the watchful gaze of two of her commanders. Once Villin was free he looked Ruby in the eyes for a moment, thinking back of what happened earlier.
For a moment, neither spoke, thinking back to what happened a few hours ago they got a headache due to how much information they got. All they really remembered were the big points in each other’s lives.
Yet, even now, neither of them felt those things were weird. This was especially odd for Ruby who now knew the origin of Villin. She found it odd that she didn’t think of it as a big deal right now. She didn’t doubt that if he would’ve told her the previous day she would be questioning her bloodline, thinking that he was lying, yet now, she had no such misconceptions.
“Then, I suppose we should get going?” Villin asked once he got back to his regular self.
Ruby shook her head, “No, I’ll come in two days time. I need to make sure everything goes well while I’m absent.”
Villin nodded before leaving. As for Hawk and Sara, they still had no idea what was going on and even once they asked Ruby she wouldn’t say. This was the very first time Ruby didn’t answer one of their questions. As for why, Ruby simply said she didn’t quite understand the situation herself.
Nonetheless, the school was once more shocked when two days later, Ruby, one of the more well-known guild leaders in the grade, began coming to Athena’s Forge daily, helping out with enchantments and the occasional mission.
During this period of time, many made guesses about the relationship between Villin and Ruby, ‘Today’s Oddities’ even made a multitude of articles talking about their ‘little secret’ as they stated it. ‘A Magus’ Aid’ on the other hand only made a few articles talking about Ruby assisting Athena’s Forge. The only rumor they mentioned was that this situation seemed to hint toward a possible merging of Ruby and Villin’s guilds but even that was said to be information from an unreputable source.
Now that he had some more free time, Villin finally managed to free up time to do two things.
Firstly, there was a book in the library concerning magical dreams he had wanted to read. At this point in time, he had enough personal and guild reputation to be allowed to retrieve the book.
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The book was surprisingly thorough. It began with explaining the most common types of magical dreams and then went to those that were rarer and rarer. The author also made it clear that not all information in this book may be accurate, especially when looking at the rarer sorts of dreams.
The first subject talked about curses. Apparently, over ninety percent of magical dreams were caused by various curses. These curses could do things ranging from causing nightmares every night to causing someone to fall asleep at random points in time.
Over half of the book talked about all sorts of curses and spells but none of them stood out to Villin. It was only when he got to the rarer ones that he found some similar occasions.
In particular, there were three that seemed very similar to what he was going through. About three-quarters through the book there was a described affliction called ‘asbernia’ this was a mental affliction that caused certain people to get an extreme sense of deja-vu. After going through a certain something they would suddenly recall they had dreamt about it a few months prior. It was a very uncommon mental disease.
Thinking about it though, Villin didn’t think he quite had this. It would be different if all of his dreams had actually happened but this wasn’t the case. After all, the situation with the middle-aged man in the castle probably hadn’t happened yet, and he hadn’t ever seen Granolf before then at the party where the man seemed to be furious at him, the only time he had seen him had been in his dream.
The second similar dream was near the back of the book. At this point, most of the articles consisted of guesswork stemming from stories of the word of a singular person.
This time the book described a story about the great lord Roland who founded The Academy and invented magic as magi knew it today. There were mentions that Roland was a prophet, when he closed his eyes it was said that he could see snippets of the future.
Then again, if you believed all of the stories then Roland was capable of destroying the world with a flick of his fingers and he was the master of all existing arts. Most of the stories talking about this legendary figure were false, they all had to be taken with a swig of salt.
Looking further there was one more thing that spoke to him. When he got to the end of the book there were a few ‘honorable mentions’ these were things that weren’t actually magical dreams but could be perceived as such by some.
One of these was ‘Astral Projection’. It was said that when one’s soul becomes strong enough it would be able to exist outside of the body for a limited period of time. The main technique this was useful for was astral projection. With this technique, you could temporarily send a sliver of your soul to a different location and have a look at what was going on while generally staying invisible.
The reason it was mentioned here was that in some cases, some with a strong enough soul would find themselves looking at their bodies while sleeping, unknowingly using the technique.
Even though this seemed somewhat similar to what happened with him and Granolf, there was no way he would accidentally astral project to a man he never saw in a faraway place. This simply wasn’t a possibility and so even after looking through this book he remained mostly clueless about what was going on with his dreams.
The thing that unnerved Villin was that he couldn’t control it. What if what happened with Granolf happened again but with the headmaster or a teacher, seeing at how serious Granolf reacted, the headmaster or teacher might kill him.
With this grim thought in mind, Villin made his way back to the tower. It was finally time he spent some time learning how to create wards.