Really, things had been advancing far too quickly for Tinz to comprehend. He felt small, like being the only kid in gradeschool with one parent coming to family day. Sure, he got through the next few plants with ease. Was it due to his affinity? He couldn’t care less as long as there was progress…

But with progress came the most startling part: He had the lives of the village fairies on his hands now. The elder fairy insisted Tinz heal him first just in case anything went awry. And Lord almighty Tinz was thinking of plenty ways it could go awry.

Nonetheless, the time came for him to do the job. His shoulders tensed as he held the wand near the elder fairy’s broken arm. He wasn’t shaking; far too nervous to move at all in fact. He stood there for a palpable minute, unable to do anything.

“Ease your nerves. I doubt any backfire could make me any worse,” the elder fairy mused. Tinz coughed awkwardly. With a small ‘pop’, light shone from the wand and wrapped itself around the elder fairy’s arm. And the subsequent multiple pops afterwards were assumedly his bones. Tinz grimaced at the noise as the elder fairy flexed his thin arm to test the waters.

“Well, the bones are as good as an old man’s can get, methinks,” he said with an exhale. “Now onto the rest of ‘em.”

One by one, Tinz’ newfound wand made a small ‘pop’ as light emerged forth in spindly vines. They mended the cuts, healed the bruises, and snapped bones back into place. Apparently it wasn’t exactly a pleasant process for a few of the kids, as they cried loudly until it was done. Which really shook Tinz.

However, they stopped their tears once the process was over with. Tinz’ eyesight was wavering. He could barely see ahead of himself as he plopped down onto a tree stump.

“This… this all of them?” he wheezed nearly incoherently.

“Yes… you’ve helped us a great deal you know. Get some rest now, you clearly need it,” the elder fairy nodded as Tinz wobbled off back to the place he had slept in the past few days. Magnolia wandered behind him, humming some unknown tune.

“You did some really cool stuff back there!” she hopped to his side. “Why do you look so sad?”

“If healing a few cuts, bruises, and mending bones takes this much out of me, how am I supposed to work with an unknown illness?” he smiled bitterly. Magnolia bonked him on the head.

“You just learned how to do this, give yourself some credit dude! Even the old fairy seemed impressed,” she beamed.

“...I guess,” was all Tinz could say as he made his way to the room and flopped onto the bed. Sleep almost instantly took over him as his breathing slowed. Magnolia took the nearby blanket and draped it over him.

Her smile was softer now as she sat on the edge of the bed and opted for the phone. She fiddled with it for a moment before the smile faded.

“I hope you can find what you need, Tinz,” she said quietly before going back to using the phone.