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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Lemming" data-source="post: 3859365" data-attributes="member: 21457">Ok, well with all the melodrama cut out; Enko and Eleinya get the council to agree that Ceryan can return if he can survive for thirteen days, since that was the amount of time Enko survived as a child.  Ceryan successfully survives the animal attacks thanks to the moral and practical support of Enko and Eleinya.  On the twelfth day they all go to celebrate how he'll get to come back soon, they stay too long and it starts to get dark.  Ceryan tells them they need to leave because the attacks usualy come as the sun is setting.  They start to leave but then something roars and knocks Enko unconscious.  When he wakes up it's the early morning and the birds are just waking up from the dim light.  He finds that his arm is broken, so he heals himself, then he finds Eleinya unconscious with toothmarks on her back and chest and a slash down her leg.  He heals her.  Then they find Ceryan on the far side of the dead dire bear with his spear embedded in it's heart.  He's missing his left eye, and has several broken bones and nasty gashes and needs immediate medical attention.  However, when Enko tries to heal him he finds out he's exhausted his healing spells, though he doesn't know that's the reason he fails.  So since he's so badly wounded they can't move him, so Eleinya yells at him to go get help and he runs off in a panic without thinking about the fact that he should be the one to stay since he's the healer.  He gets back to town and gets into trouble for being gone all night while he tries to explain that Ceryan is supposed to be allowed to return today but that he's badly injured.  When they finally clear everything up and get back with another healer they find him dead and when Eleinya looks at Enko he freaks out and bolts, and has avoided her to this day, thinking that she blames him for Ceryan's death and hates him.  He's also developed a very strong conviction to keep anything like this from ever happening again, that includes trying to make sure that no one does something that would get them exiled in the first place.The story has been adapted by the council to make Ceryan a bit of a tragic hero who was a fool at first but learned the error of his ways and atoned, though he died in the end.  Both Enko and Eleinya are mentioned as the people who pleaded his case.Eleinya blamed Enko at first but later found out that it wasn't his fault and now feels crappy about the fact that he avoids her like the plague, as they had become close friends over that time, she hasn't taken a serious interest in another man since Ceryan died.  She thinks Enko blames her for Ceryan's death and feels bad about it because in a desperate attempt to do something to help him she tried sticking unprepared Blackfrond in his wounds.  This made didn't heal him, but it did actually make him stop noticing just how much pain he was in.  When he started spouting nonsense though she got even more freaked out.One of the reasons Enko travels around so much now is to avoid Eleinya.</blockquote>

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