not_every_mage: ([neg] facepalm)
After Nathan got him home from town the day before, Anders had slept 12 hours, woken up for just long enough to devour three sandwiches and a sleeve of cookies, showered, filled Lachlan's food bowl and made some abject apologies to the cat who was now ignoring him in retribution, and then gone back to sleep for six more hours.

He was awake again now, though he almost wished he wasn't. When he was asleep, he wasn't thinking about how bloody stupid he'd been to fall prey to someone obviously evil just because he dangled the right kind of shiny. It wasn't as if he hadn't been warned it was all too good to be true; he'd just chosen to ignore it.

He didn't like to think about what that meant for him the next time he went up against a real demon at home. Possession was a fear for any mage.

Even knowing he'd forced Cassandra to spend a week on a fool's errand didn't give him much satisfaction. He supposed he owed her some kind of apology for his conduct, though not nearly as intense of one as what he owed Kathy. That might take cookies at a minimum. (Or some kind of present, anyhow. He wasn't sure what exactly said "sorry I almost froze you to death while I was in a demon's thrall.")

He laid on bed with his eyes open, thinking all of this over. He'd heard people were gathering at the clinic, and he'd go there to see what he could do. Later. Right now he was still weak and achy, and still needed most of his energy to finish healing himself.

[OOC: Mainly a linkdrop but open if you want!]
not_every_mage: ([wee] default)
There was a cat mrowling on the boy’s chest.

There was a cat there, and his first thoughts as he shifted into consciousness were that he was going to get into trouble for letting the beast in the house again so soon after Dad had chewed him out for allowing the old tom to sleep on the clean laundry. (Not that he remembered letting the cat in last night to start with, but his father didn’t tend to be particular about that sort of detail.) The boy frankly felt that it was far too early to be yelled at, so he decided to get the cat outside before anyone else was awake.

“Shh,” he counseled the black-and-white kitten, frowning when he realized it wasn’t any of the barn cats they kept to chase the rats away. “You aren’t one of ours, are you? Hang on and I’ll get some cold chicken from the pantry, but then you need to go right back outside and find your way home.”

He slid out of bed then, letting the cat spring to the floor, and realized it hadn’t been his bed and wasn’t his room. Wasn’t like any room he’d been in, in fact, with the paintings right on the wall. And there was a pile of fine gold stuff that looked like hair (but was too long and brilliant to be any hair he’d ever seen) on the other side, with the slightest curve of a face poking out from the strands.

Gently, he reached out to touch some of the hair. He didn’t mean to disturb the person it was attached to –- he just couldn’t believe it was real. )

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