This time, he could hardly resist getting in a little jab.

"I could leave you like this," he pointed out. "Would keep you out of trouble for a while longer." Probably not much longer, because another healer would come in and heal him, and it wasn't like Eldin would risk his job by being stupid. (That's what Pyrites would want for him, anyways—not the job loss, but the acting on stupid whims.)

"Luckily for you, one of us is a competent adult," he explained, pointedly waving his wand.

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