Shattered Dreams

As they passed through the college's corridor, the five healers went to meet Thurin before healing the students. 

Meanwhile, Beatrix, Elisabeth, and Adam continued, meeting Shepard a few moments later.

"Look at you!" Elisabeth said, shaking her head with a bitter smile as she glanced at Shepard's blood-stained robes and wrinkly face.

However, Adam could swear he saw something more. Disdain? Gloating?

'Is their relationship strained?'

The answer revealed itself after a tense silence lingered as sparks seemed to collide between the two arcanists.

"Cough. Did you come to heal or mock me?"

Shepard's voice resounded as a fit of cough made his body tremble, exposing the ugly burns hidden beneath his tattered clothes.

"Mhh. I'll heal you if you let your disciple study in my academy," she answered, her lips curling into an innocent smile.