Elemental Unrest
((there are a lot of posts I'm proud of from this time, this among them!))
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It wasn’t the best day ever. Having finally located her sister Elladora and gotten the now-catatonic mage out of Ironforge, Istari found herself tossed right back into the thick of things in the Cathedral. She looked quite the mess, her battle vestments, hair, and any bit of exposed skin now soaked with rain and exploded Elementals, smudged with soot and scorch marks from the fires. There were scattered bruises all over, and a superficial scratch on her cheek from when an especially nasty air elemental had blown her back into a tree. There was no time for her own discomfort to even register, of course. Izzy just put up her hair, rolled up her sleeves, and began seeing to the injured. “This one’s clear!” She called out, as she finished wrapping the chest of a fallen Paladin. She moved down the row to the next man, as neophytes saw to cleaning up her last patient. They were laid out in rows on the Cathedral floor, those with non-lethal injuries. For a while Istari had been down in the library with the critical patients, but had since been rotated out to save her energy. Even now she channeled sparingly, taking a swig from a sugary fizzy drink every now and then, knowing that her more powerful abilities would be needed again soon enough, when the next wave hit. “That girl’s awake, Izzy!” Griawen called out to her across the crowded hall. “The one with the lightning shock.” “Swap,” Izzy breathed, to which her friend from the Abbey nodded, the two girls moving to switch spots. Stepping over the injured carefully, Izzy squeezed hands with the other young healer, before moving to the corner where another girl lie covered by one of the church blankets. She was about Izzy’s age, though far more muscular and fit, clearly a soldier. Her long, light brown hair was in a state, raggedy and fried from the bolt of lightning she’d taken clear through the chest. There were burns all up and down her arms and up her face, a few of them wrapped, most left to the open air.