66 - It hurts.

For the next few days, Ren and Fang lived separately. Wolf moved into the house and accompanied Fang 24/7, while Pax took Ren to the apartment he kept near Sirocco's office.

Ren was quite listless. He barely ate or slept and all his work was done mechanically. He also seemed to have somehow sealed his magic away, which made Pax unable to use healing magic on him.

Pax was very worried. He'd managed to get Ren to tell him the parameters of the reflection magic he'd used on Fang, and it had shocked him so much that he'd almost broken the phone in his hand. Such magic was not only beyond the scope of the most powerful master magician Pax knew, but also something that was almost impossible to achieve because it left absolutely no margin for error. And yet Ren spoke of it casually, as if it was nothing to him.