บท 411: The Long Path, Part 2

When a night is two shifts of sleep, each roughly two hours long, I sure do wake up grumpy. "What?" I asked.

"Silence. Gather our things and..."

The fire elemental burst into the chamber, sending <BURN!> everywhere.

I uncorked my water supply. "Move Water! Water Shield!" I shouted, rolling out of bed toward him. He recoiled against a wall.

<Whoa! Wait! Prank! It's just a prank! Don't KILL me!>

I took a step back, angled my shield to let him have access back to the foundry. <Move on, then.>

It looked at me. No eyes, no face, but he looked at me. <Yeah, sure. Thanks.> And then it raced back the way it came.

I cracked my neck, wandered back over to the keg. "Move Water." I said, but instead it just fell straight down, only the smallest portion of it back into the cask. I sighed, and flipped the lid closed.