Chapter 54 – Dueling Tournament (3)
I noticed that something has changed in the next week's atmosphere. Or at least... inside our classroom. People looked at me differently, which was not surprising as I severely burnt one of our peers. As I heard, he is still in the hospital wing and waiting for some ointment to be ready and applied to regrow his skin. What I got from catching a conversation with others is that he will have to have a full skin replacement. It's not the best way to spend the upcoming winter vacation, but that is no longer my problem. My, or more precisely, our main problem was... me.
"Nothing..." Quincy moaned, collapsing beside me in the common room, close to midnight. Our desk was littered with books, all from the library, describing possessions and similar incidents.
"I told you anything like that would not be in books!"
What we managed to gather and read was about the different magical beings. About vampires, their blood-magic methods of bounding a ghost to a body. Magic of some dark species that supposedly bound dead souls into living beings, giving them nightmares and driving them insane... or books about the Inferi. Some even theorized that if an Inferi is let to roam the earth for a long time and consume magical flesh, meaning eating wizards and witches, it can gain intelligence. As to whether it becomes a new being or regains old memories... that was up for debate as it was nothing but a theory. We didn't find anything about people coming back from the dead.
"It was worthy of a try..." She mumbled, sulking that we didn't come across anything. Last year, our sessions in the library always produced results.
"We know too little about souls!"
"What about the ghosts?" She looked at me while lying her head on the table, blowing her away from her face.
"We can ask them, but... I don't really know what to expect. They were people who were too afraid to go. Their thing is probably entirely different from someone who is deliberately attempting to remain amongst the living! Or planning a future chance to return to life!"
"We can ask them all, going around, interviewing them all in the winter break. We will be stuck here anyway!"
"I'm in! There are no reasons not to do so! For now... let's rest! The week is still long, and on the weekends, I am going to have to burn another poor man!"
"Heh... bully..."