Starting Anew

That night Sidney had a reasonably clear and deep sleep. He didn't have any visions or memories or anything else of the sort like he had in the past couple of weeks. It was a welcomed change of pace an would likely end up leading to him being well rested for the first time in a long time. When he woke up in the morning it was indeed the case. Sidney woke up with a bit of a smile on his face which was a first since he had came here.

That morning he asked the nurses again if they had heard any rumors and the response was only a little of a surprise to him as he was told that there was a group called The Revelators that was starting to build a lot of steam behind it. Sidney had heard of this group in the past. It was kind of rare to hear about it in the past though. The members had been kept secret but Sidney had heard rumors about them being against the Peacekeepers which in this day and age was actually a pretty radical stance.

The more one thinks about it though there was a lot of sense behind it. With the attacks of the elder dragon and the fact that no one ever really saw what it was that the peacekeepers did on the Dragon Continent. For something with as much authority as they had there was very little information on them which was a good way to lead to distrust. Sidney would be prone to being drawn into the Revelators if it wasn't for the fact that one of the Peacekeepers had saved Sidney's life. Because of that however, Sidney had a pretty strong loyalty to the Peacekeepers.

After having given a lot of thought to the Revelators and Peacekeepers Sidney eventually fell asleep. Sidney had a pretty good dream that night. It was abnormal for him but it involved a girl that he had used to be sweet on for a while. She had been one of the members of the Assassin's guild and had been quite skilled. Eventually he had learned that she was not as good of a person as she had originally appeared to be which wasn't a big surprise, but they were still friendly with each other. In this dream it was just him speaking with her about things outside of the Assassin's guild.

When he awoke he was surprised to see the Doctor waiting for him. The doctor cleared Sidney to walk around outside of the hospital. Sidney wasn't as excited by the thought as one might expect though as he had remembered seeing his mentor as Sidney entered the Sidney. He was sure that it wasn't a coincidence and honestly, until he was at full health he would be afraid to go anywhere. His mentor was no joke and as long as Sidney was around his bed there would be no easy opening for him to be killed unless more than one person was killed and that was not his mentor's style.

Sidney knew that there was a bounty on him from his mentor so he knew that he had to be careful. The sword he had found would be very useful in the future if he really was pursued by Assassins.

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This was what Sidney had thought of that entire day and it wasn't a pleasant thing for him to be dwelling on. As this was what he had been thinking about as he fell asleep, predictably he did not sleep well and during his sleep he dreamed of being attacked in several different situations. It was during one of these that he awoke with a start, bolting upright in bed and panickedly looking around before taking a little while to calm himself down seeing that he was still in the hospital bed and nothing was abnormal about his surroundings.

During that day Sidney took time to walk around the Hospital while not going outside. It felt good to stretch and get up and about as he was really starting to be able to see how well his body is healing up. He had heard stories about people that had their soul messed with in the past. They were not good and it took someone no less than the skill of Imusa to be able to have a chance at properly healing something like that. The results for those who didn't have proper healing was anything from death, to being in a coma-like state for the rest of their life to zombie like effects.

By the evening Sidney had made it back to his bed. After a good talk with the male nurse that had aided him a lot in the past few days by getting him books and stuff of the sort, Sidney fell asleep for the night.

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That night Sidney had multiple dreams but a few of them that stood out from the rest of them were the ones of what would have happened to him if it wasn't for Imusa. Dreams of him just laying in a coma. Dreams of himself doing things not of his will and dreams of death. It wasn't a very pleasant night's sleep, but surprisingly, when he woke up he felt extremely rested and his body felt pretty good as well.

Throughout the day he made his way around the hospital area slowly, stretching a lot and just generally working his body out of all of the kinks that had built up in his body after having been off from his feet for a couple of weeks. He even helped out a couple of times around the hospital by delivering papers and passing on messages. He eventually speaks to one of the Head doctor's and explains to him why he isn't going out of the hospital. The doctor understands and spreads the word to those that need to know.

By the evening Sidney was back in bed. He heard some rumors there about some venom or toxin that was starting to be used by a Bandit Warlord here in Humus, even that a female Captain of the Humus Elite Guard from Rampart had fallen victim to it. It was called Champion's Bane and it supposedly wreaked havoc on reflexes, strength, magic and battle skill. Truly it sounded like a horrible thing to be a victim of as it negated years of training in the period of a couple of days.

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That night Sidney had felt pretty sore. Most likely it was from having overdone it a bit that previous day though he couldn't be certain that that was the exact reason for it. As far as dreams that night it was pretty uneventful, but he did wake up once during the night feeling as though he was being watched by some unseen person. Probably it was his mentor waiting for an opening, but all Sidney could really do was trust the nurses and doctors and that his mentor wouldn't dare to kill someone in the hospital. After a half hour or so, pondering this Sidney just grew too tired to stay awake and he fell back asleep.

The next day he again walked around the hospital and actually ate in the cafeteria. He helped around a bit more than he had the day before with letters, notes and messages, to the point where some of the nurses joked and said that he might have to start getting paid for his help. That evening for supper he once again ate in the cafeteria/mess area and had a pleasant conversation with an adventurer that had taken an arrow to the knee and was still recovering. He said something along the lines of joining the guard now that he had been injured as he wouldn't be able to travel as much but with the guard he wouldn't need to.

After this conversation Sidney went to his room/bed again and did some light reading before falling asleep for the night.

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The next day was Sidney decided to do something that he hadn't done to this point since he had gotten injured, go to town. He took his Plasite Cutter with him as he left and started to make his way towards Glaidus' Workshop. The night before he had come up with a pretty good idea, or so he figured. It would take a lot of money and it would take a lot of high end craftmanship and he wasn't entirely certain that only one person could craft what he wanted. In fact he thought that it could end up being potentially 3 or 4 different people.

One thing was for certain about it though, He knew exactly where he would be starting. Glaidus may be pretty much retired from doing things like this, but he also would be the one that would be best at bringing his idea into fruition. In fact, he was kind of hoping that he could get Glaidus to spearhead the project if he provided the gold required to undertake it. With that in mind he also made sure to conceal the Plasite Cutter so that if his old mentor did try to make a move on him he would at least potentially stand a chance of holding him off until guards swarmed him. He even has to slip it by the nurses so that they don't try to stop him from potentially harming himself more before being fully healed.

As he sneaks out into the streets he tries to conceal himself as often as was possible to avoid drawing the attention of his former mentor. It takes him longer than normal, but after a while he finds himself outside of the workshop.

(Topic will be continued there.)

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