[Tom]

Draconis looked around, the sun finally started to hurt his eyes. He looked up as the birds flew off, and looked where they had flown off from. A small fox walked past where the birds had been, it'd had an unsuccessful attempt to catch a meal.

"Wait a second..." he whispered to himself; "that fox has green eyes..." He cursed loudly in his head, he'd forgotten that Liz could infact move about in the day as an animal, and she was there. Draconis moved from out behind Sara and picked up his sword, it was now or never, and Draconis raced to cut down the little beast, consealing the true beast within. But as he drew near, the fox spat something at him, some sort of black orb or wad of something. It hit Draconis, right in the chest, touching the amulet and his bare skin.

He stumbled back as Liz shifted into a hummingbird and flew from immediate sight. Draconis looked down, a fantastic light started to eminate from the amulet, and it started to press hard against his skin. An unimaginable pain filled his chest as the amulet sank right into his skin. He fell on all fours and gasped for air, experiencing a pain he had never imagined was possible. He rolled onto his back as the pain stopped and he looked at his chest to see what had happened. The amulet was gone, but he was still alive, so apparantly it wasn't broken, but instead it must have been absorbed by his body.

Draconis grogily stood up and grabbed his sword, oddly it was exremely heavy for him to lift; and took him to tries to pull it onto his shoulder. Liz flew by, and dug her hummingbird beak into his skin. Draconis gave a short shout and dropped the sword and grabbed his arm. He pulled it back and looked at the wound. Deep red blood began to trickle down the side of his left forarm. That's not right... Draconis thought curiously to himself. Then he realized something. "****, she did it."

Draconis grabbed his sword, and hoisted it onto his shoulder. He then ran over to Sara and placed his hand on her ankle and healed it, he then placed his hand on her back and raked it down her spine, healing all of the muscles and repairing the tissue. He looked at her with his now sandy brown eyes and helped her up. "St. Aristias will have to wait, we have to see Zewd, now."