Soon enough, the townsfolk were all given their share of the cure. The animals, unwilling to drink the weird goop, had to be injected. The process took well into nightfall. By three in the morning, all had been given a dosage of the medicine.

“It will take up to two weeks for the full effects to course through,” Felicity had told them, “You will feel the healing as soon as dawn.”

With the health of the town secure, Felicity took her long awaited hot bath. After biding the thankful elder fair well, she took off again.

”Where are you heading?”

“Radansanth.”

“Why? Are you insane? The Empire is there!”

“Yes, but my new purpose is there as well. I’m about to become a part of something big. Important. Maybe then, I’ll find love and usefulness…”