Soon the teacher snapped her wand and the room’s atmosphere seemed to shatter like glass. Nearly the whole room took a deep breath as the beasts retreated behind Luprix. They fell to the ground holding their chest. Their beating heart was all they could hear and notice, their vision blurry. It was many moments until someone grabbed their arm and pulled them up carefully. A man in a white gown, red trim and large pockets normally vacant, filled with many medical and emergency supplies.

The man dragged Luprix out of the room as the beasts followed, kept at a distance by tall cloaked wizards. The corridor was unnervingly quiet at this time of day, most classes not being interfered by a magician with wild magic. The nurse finally noticed Luprix’s small head movements and rummaged through his pocket. They couldn’t tell what the nurse pulled out, but soon they felt a prick.

Luprix’s eyes felt heavy as he sunk in the nurse’s shoulder. The world soon began to spin and blur. The shadows bleeding into reality as the beasts seemed to dissipate into smoke. Ah… The nurse gave them a strong magic suppressant. They could no longer see the magic that scattered around the halls, but that also meant they would soon lose consciousness. They closed their eyes and accepted the heavy calm feeling taking over their mind.

The next thing Luprix knows, they had awoken in a white bed made of stiff mattress and metal bars, sitting in a bleached room that smelled of medicine and sick. They tried to sit up, but their head felt like it was floating in the void, vaguely held together by whatever invisible thread loosely connected their thoughts enough to be sentient.

The sanitized room slowly brought them to reality though, giving them a strong but distasteful sense that grounded their mind into their body. The world still spinning like a blender on full. Something heavy, on top. They rolled over and huffed from the effort, looking up at the hazy blurry familiars. He supposed they were trying to speak, but his magic had yet to return. The beats simply looked like large shadowed house cats meowing for food.

“Stupid… Cats…” He breathed before laying his head back on the unfluffed and depressed pillow that has seen too many visitors.