I looked up from the microscope, writing down my observations and notes quickly, leaning back into the scope despite my exhaustion. The small lab I sat in was attached to the medical ward we'd put into the cave system; bean-shaped and currently haphazardly filled with benches, equipment and a medical bed. The metal door Luca had installed buzzed, the decontamination system activating and dosing whoever stepped into it. Harsh coughing and a hand swiping the cloud of magic expelled for four crystals in each corner of the door, appeared before the reason of a scowling Heath as he took in the room - and me still in it after he told me he'd come to get me if I wasn't in bed in an hour. Four hours ago...whoops. He was dressed in a dark blue hoodie and pyjama pants, telling me he'd fallen