The second YongSun opened her eyes, she threw up. Five pairs of eyes watched her as she moved from her laying down position to a sitting one. Byul’s hand was slightly outstretched as if she was waiting to catch YongSun if she fell back. Byul looked horrible, her already pale skin was basically see through, her eyes were lined with dark circles, and even though she had a blanket around her shoulders, she was shivering. 

YongSun didn’t feel much better. Her stomach was still churning, she felt as if there was a hurricane in her gut. When she looked up at the others, she felt bile rise in once again but she managed to choke it back. “What happened?” The acid from her stomach burned the back of . As if knowing what she needed, Byul handed her a water skin. 

No one answered while she drank. “If I had to guess,” WheeIn finally said. “I think you just healed Byul.” 

High five for being on time! I actually have someone proof reading and helping me revise now so hopfully there will be less mistakes and less confusing things throughout the rest of the story... probably should have done that sooner.

That sent a shock through her, chilling her spine. “W-what do you mean? We gave her the antidote, it is what healed her.” She looked at Byul, she looked about three times as worse as the others, but YongSun still believed she was cured by the antidote. 

HyeJin shook her head. “I think Byul must have had double the dose we did.” She chucked her thumb in Luna’s direction, who was leaning against TaeOh’s side, her eyes fluttering like she was having a hard time keeping them open. “I saw your hands glow when they were on her.” HyeJin confirmed. “As soon as they stopped, Byul woke up and you passed out, and now you are acting like you have been poisoned.” She looked as if she was thinking it over, WheeIn nodding next to her. “But we can discuss it later.” 

YongSun looked over them again, everyone seemed to expect her to want to say something or do something. Her eyes rested over Byul, who gave a weak smile. “I guess I should have listened to my mother when she said sweets would kill me.” She laughed. 

TaeOh let out a snort that had YongSun smiling. “You do have a problem controlling yourself around the sweets, remember the chocolate moat?”

Byul faked a glare at him but YongSun could see the smile in her eyes, it was nice to see. “You promised you would never bring that up.” YongSun felt the urge to reach out and lay her hand on Byul’s but she held back. 

Luna surprisingly sat up, but she was still leaning heavily on TaeOh. “I’d like to hear this.” Her green eyes gleamed a bit. 

WheeIn chuckled, she began rubbing HyeJin’s shoulders from where they were sitting. It dawned on YongSun that her and Byul were the only ones not touching, but she wasn’t sure she could control herself if she tried. Instead she smiled. “Yeah Byul tell us.” 

Byul also faked a glare at YongSun but she didn’t hold it long before a smile broke through. “TaeOh tells it better.” She sighed. “Besides I am too exhausted.” At that she leaned her head on YongSun’s shoulder, YongSun stiffened. She didn’t miss the look that passed between WheeIn and HyeJin, TaeOh lifted an eyebrow, Luna’s eyes were closed again. YongSun waited for Byul to move but she didn’t, she tried to relax a bit, which wasn’t hard because it was Byul resting on her. 

TaeOh cleared his throat. “So back when Byul and I were fresh new faces in the army, the King held a party…” Everyone relaxed as TaeOh told them the tale of how Byul had a bit too much to drink and thought it would be fun to shove her face in a moat of chocolate at one of the celebrations, burning her face slightly for a few days. YongSun felt her head fall to the side, resting atop of Byul’s, she slowly drifted into sleep. 

Everyone wasted the next day resting. TaeOh was really the only able to walk around, even though he was exhausted. WheeIn tried to put on a strong face, pretending her wound didn’t hurt her, and help out with the firewood and the hunting but HyeJin put a stop to that really fast, making her sit down. HyeJin and Luna were able to walk around the clearing a little bit. YongSun felt better once morning broke but she was still tired. Byul was still the worst of them, she tried walking around but she often got dizzy when she stood so she was ordered to lay down and drink lots of fluid. 

HyeJin asked YongSun to join her for a morning training session, even though neither of them was really up to it. They didn’t walk as far as they usually did when they trained, not wanting to waste more energy than they needed to. HyeJin settled down on a fallen tree, patting the spot next to her for YongSun to sit. “Do you want to talk about the healing?” She asked as YongSun took her seat.

YongSun shrugged. “I am not really sure what to talk about.” 

“Why don’t you explain to me what it felt like.” YongSun hesitated for a moment, she wasn’t sure she wanted to explain exactly what was going on in her head. HyeJin gave her a soft look. “Do remember I already know of your feelings for her, and I am more than sure there was some sort of progression in your relationship over the last few days.” YongSun wasn’t shocked, HyeJin and WheeIn paid way too much attention. “Just tell me what it felt like, and sort of what you were feeling, but if it makes you feel better, you can keep some of it to yourself, I don’t need to know every detail.”

YongSun thought it over. “It felt like I was absorbing some sort of essence from her through my hands.” She looked down at her hands, like she couldn’t believe what happened. “They were hot as usual, I was thinking that I didn’t want to lose her. I was afraid she was going to die.”

HyeJin nodded. “I had no doubt your first time with healing would have been with Byul, all of your powers so far seem to be sparked by her.” That made YongSun’s cheeks heat. “It is nothing to be embarrassed about YongSun, love is a very strong tool and considering it is how your powers seem to work, then the person you have the strongest love for, would be the reason your powers would unlock.”

“But she was hurt before and I never healed her. And I wasn’t even sure I had this power.” 

“We never know the extent of your powers, each and every Solarous is unique.” She paused for a moment. “I assume the last incident happened before you came to the Knight.” 

YongSun confirmed with a short nod. “It was when she got poisoned the last time.”

“And that was when you had your first encounter with your prophet powers, the one you have the strongest connection with.” She smiled at YongSun. “And besides your love has expanded since then, perhaps you didn’t think her life was as in danger as it was last night.” 

YongSun’s blush deepened at the words. “I guess you are right.”

She laughed. “Of course, what sort of teacher would I be if I didn’t make sense.”

“I think I’d prefer if you were a little less observant at times.” She said with a sigh. 

Another laugh. “Yeah sorry about that. It is something I got used to doing when I was young, reading people, studying them, since I could never be close with them.” Her smile was a bit sad. 

YongSun tried to make her feel better. “I do appreciate all the effort you are putting into my training.” She touched HyeJin’s leg lightly. “I’d be so lost and overwhelmed without you. I would be so out of control, I would not know how to work my powers if you were not helping me” 

HyeJin smiled again. “Thank you.” A suspicious gleam in her eyes. “So are you going to tell me what happened between you and Byul or do you want to get to today’s activity?” 

YongSun gave her an even look. Sure she wanted to talk about the recent development between her and Byul, but for now, that was for just them.

The day’s activity was one they had been working on for a while. YongSun was supposed to try and take a memory from HyeJin without her prompting it. It was a key power she would need while in the castle to be able to see random people’s memories that she had no connection to, without asking questions. It was not a power she had a lot of success with yet. HyeJin suggested after their first time, that they bring Byul in and see if she could get a vision from her, but YongSun didn’t want to. Maybe now she could, but a few weeks ago, it would be like admitting her powers didn’t like to work unless it was Byul she was using it on. It was hard, HyeJin was unsure she would even be able to do it, it was a power she read about one of the Solarous’ having. Though after practicing for a bit, she was able to extract one small fragment from HyeJin, now she could see up to a few seconds of memories. It was a slow process but one she needed to have a better grip on before they got to the castle. 

Over an hour of trying and there was little improvement. YongSun considered asking Byul later if she could try on her, but that was like going from running for an exercise to a walk, she wanted to keep up her stamina, she wanted to be able to do it without help. She just hoped she could