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Laus relaxes a bit, now that he's out out of sight of so many strangers. Still, he watches his words carefully when talking to these older magi.
"I obtained an egg, like our assignment said so," he began, lifting up the nandi egg to the healers. He turned it slightly to show the nasty wound on its side, but before he could continue, a gasp from Urse froze the words in his throat.
"My goodness! Where on earth did you find that egg?" she said as she hurried over to collect the egg. With a swift motion she clutched it snugly to her chest as she had likely done with thousands of eggs before, and with her free hand she put her fingers in her mouth and whistled. No sooner had she done so, a pair of life prism foxes leapt up from under a desk and pressed their paws to the egg, there was a flash and the foxes scurried away as quickly as they appeared. The egg remained miscoloured, but the crack was completely gone.
Urse bent over to examine the egg more closely, frowned and shook her head, then delicately set it aside on a cushion with an indentation perfectly set for an egg. "I'm afraid I'll need to take this egg for a few days. The High Magi need to see it."
Laus froze in horror.
"It doesn't look that bad..." Aisli said, her confusion clear. In response, Urse took out a cloth and wiped a bit of the scabbed ooze from the hairline thin crack on the shell, and handed it to her twin.
"While I get this egg patched up and write a report on what's affecting it, how about you take a look at this under a microscope?"
As Urse was pulling out paper for a typewriter, she caught a glimpse of Laus' fear stricken face.
"Your egg will live. It's
who created the disease that I'm worried about."
"I didn't do anything!! It was like that when I found it, I swear!!!" Laus found himself blurting out in a panic before he could stop himself. Urse gave him a sad but reassuring smile.
"No one believes that you did, Laus. This kind of magic is far too advanced for a student like you to master. In fact, there's only one known magi in history who's been able to grow a disease such as this, which is why I'm writing to the High Magi council to report that she's returned. Now go and take at what it looks like, under the microscope."
While Urse was talking, Aisli had been setting up one of the microscopes she used for diagnosing infections. She carefully picked a bit of the scab off the cloth, slid it onto a glass panel, peered at it carefully before rolling the microscope on its stand over to the three students for their review.