Bromance: A Lothar/Khadgar Story | By : flagfish Category: +S through Z > World of Warcraft Views: 1286 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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"Just lie still."
Khadgar had Lothar on the library floor, stripped of his armor, hand pressed to his chest; some days following the events at Karazhan and Medivh's apparent demise, Aegwynn had spoken to Khadgar in a vision. She'd been just as exasperatingly vague as she'd been the time previous, but she'd made clear that he ought to investigate the dark tower; unbeknownst to him, Karazhan had been her home before it was passed to Medivh.
Unbeknownst to him also, she was Medivh's mother, and she'd work to bring him back— but all that was still to come.
With the orcish forces advancing gradually toward Redridge, the humans of Stormwind despaired, and Khadgar believed that within the tower there may lie arcane secrets to grant them advantage; that Karazhan now lay in a fallen state was obvious, but it wasn't yet evident that it had been cursed.
Something attacked him and Lothar while they searched through the library; there certainly were secrets to be found, if there'd been any doubt.
"I don't need to be examined," Lothar rolled his eyes; "Look at you, you've got your whole—"
He reached to where Khadgar's robes were torn at the shoulder, and vague glitters of magic appeared to waft from his skin; "Never mind that," Khadgar said, he tried to move Lothar's hand away. "That's nothing, just residual—"
"Nothing? Bookworm, you've got— stuff— like— in your shoulder—"
"Yes, I know, it's not got any actual core energies— and stop calling me that— and just lie back down, I can't work like this—"
For several moments, Lothar genuinely tried to lie still, but the longer he tried, the stupider he felt; "All right," he said finally, "enough— I've had far worse, I don't need to be babied— Ow, Light's sake, what the hell!"
"I told you to lie still!"
"So you can what? Attack me with your spells?!"
Khadgar sighed; "It wouldn't have hurt if you hadn't moved!"
Now Lothar appeared to fight visibly for composure while he lay on the rug, hands going in fists with annoyance; his lips pursed with the pain of the spell, while above him Khadgar continued to do whatever it was he was doing. He turned to him with any remaining smart words he still had prepared when he saw, to his own vast astonishment, a dark shadow being slowly drawn from his chest.
Khdgar's eyes were wide with the power of it even as he performed the cast, which was hardly reassuring where his competence as a sorcerer was concerned; "What?" Lothar asked, "what the hell is that?"
"Lie still..."
"Yeah, easy coming from you, you've not got—"
Khadgar had hardly finished drawing the dark figure out when it expanded to about twice its size and burst through the room; it burrowed into the floor with a great burst of energy, and not without grazing the both of them first.
There followed a chorus of expletives on both their parts, and then accusations on part of Lothar about what Khadgar had done, and defensive remarks from Khadgar, and finally a great deal of arguing as to what that thing was; all the while, they both still were reeling from the lesions they'd suffered while it escaped, and despite themselves they had to sit down.
"This place isn't safe," Khadgar said while still clutching his arm; at that, Lothar glanced at him incredulously.
"No kidding," he huffed; "do you even know what you're doing with your spells?"
"Do I even— yes! Yes, I know what I'm doing!"
After several moments, he quietly added, "I think."
"If I'd had my armor on, that thing wouldn't have grazed me like this—"
"Yeah, well— if you'd had your armor on, there'd be no way I'd be able to pull the dark energies out."
"And now they're running amok all over this tower— wherever they are—"
"Oh, know what— fine. I'm sorry I didn't leave them inside you— what are you doing—"
Now Lothar was peeling back the torn flanks of Khadgar's sleeve; "Light," he murmured, and his face contorted with so much concern that Khadgar became worried. "What?" he asked, "What are you making that face for?"
He tried from the angle he was sat to inspect his own shoulder better, and now saw that the residual energies from before had gone darker, that they seemed to have seeped deeper in; also, the flesh on his upper arm appeared like it was somewhere between a sunburn and a scar.
"That's it," Lothar said; "take this off— it's like you've been burned—"
"Hey— what are you— I told you, I'm fine—"
By then, Lothar had got the top part of Khadgar's robes off and was examining his arm with what looked like skilled proficiency; "We need water," he said, "and golden sansam—"
"Why? What are you gonna do?"
"I've seen this sort of burn before at battle— let's go see where he keeps his herbs—"
"Oh yeah, great idea, Anduin— let's go looking through this entire building for where he might or might not keep some golden sansam."
"Have you got any better ideas?"
Several moments passed before Khadgar resigned and agreed to follow Lothar to the stairs.
(On to Chapter 2)
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I would love to RP these two if anyone is interested! (There are actually a lot of m/m pairs I'd love to RP in Warcraft lore); it's completely cool by me if you're new to Warcraft or to RPing, if you don't know that much lore, or if English isn't your first language— I just like writing with someone else who's passionate about the same stuff. If you think you might want to give it a try, please let me know (contact info on my profile).
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