“True,” Luvi admitted, “the scorpion might not have let me use magic on it or might have had some resistance to it. There’s so many things I would have liked to test out, but it surprised me and got the better of me before I got the chance.”
“I was just thinking about Abrogation,” Luvi said, “there’s a lot of testing I want to do with it. Not now, obviously. Am I the only one who noticed that it was particularly hot by the scorpions? The weather hasn’t changed but it feels a lot cooler now that we’re away from that area. But to answer the rest of your question, yes, I think I will be fine. I just need a nap.”
Lumina said, “fractures can have weird effects like that. Given that we found firestone, it makes plenty sense to me.” She inserted six of the firestones into Luvi's pack - what she was allowed to take.
“Ah,” said Luvi. “You know, I’ve grown to dislike the heat a lot. I won’t miss it.” It was true at more than a surface level. Her abrogation spark eagerly wished to protect its host from the heat that it had been subjected to for weeks but didn’t know how. Though Luvi didn’t notice it, her spark was naming a nemesis for her and subconsciously gearing itself towards becoming better at defending against things such as a hot flame.
Goku’s guess was right – they made camp not long after and Luvi fell asleep almost immediately. When she woke up it was late at night and she didn’t have motivation to do much other than get water. It had been a hard trial to stand.
She had trouble falling back asleep. The bruise, while healing, hurt more now than before as it had a chance to fully develop. Her usual methods of calming her mind weren’t working – it was hard to push out pain that came with every breath. She let her mind wander nonetheless, thinking back to a time when she was just a child who’d bumped her knee. She remembered a tune her mother had sang to her way back when. Luvi tried to hum the tune from memory. The vibration in her throat and chest lessened the pain, strangely. She was offkey and off tempo but that didn’t matter so much as the tears that came from the happy memory. Digging for a happy memory did the trick. She hardly even felt the pain anymore as she lost herself in the past and eventually fell asleep.
