"J-Jack!" Ciel's eye widened and he rushed over to the beaten and bloody boy. "W-What happened?" His hands flitted over Jack uselessly as his breathing came in sporadic bursts, now wouldn't be a proper time for an asthma attack, but fear tended to bring that about.
Jack's heavy, tearful eyes lifted at the voice. Â Ciel was the last person the sprite expected to see in this state, a deep, gut-wrenching wound at his center where he was trying to keep his innards from spilling. Â Both of his hands were covered with blood and his hoodie was shredded from the breast down, also soaked in crimson. Â He was barely there. His mind was wandering to void, and he had no idea as to how he hadn't died yet. Â
"Fearlings happened," he barely got out through weak, dying sputters. Â He noticed while lying there that his magic was flitting off of him in waves, and the space around him was freezing cold. Â The blood that had left to pool beneath him was gradually becoming frozen. Â Why was his magic getting so out of whack? Â It was scaring him, and he didn't know what to think of it.Â
Everything was happening at once, and he couldn't find himself able to focus on Ciel. Â He needed to stay alive. Â And his staff, where was it? Â Jeez, everything hurt, everything burned, every nerve ached. Â Slowly, he craned his neck back to see his staff, now snapped into two broken halves. Â His heart dropped. Â He thought he could feel it fall out, but he was imagining things.
"Why....--did this h-happen?"