Illusion or Not?

Everything settles down as the both of them wait for Orchid to wake up,

Samuel and Racquel sit together in Alek's room, it was really a spacious room. They keep quiet as they both were preoccupied with their thoughts.

"Sis, how did that your friend do it? That whole water thing?" he asks slightly turning his head towards her,

"He's quite good at illusion magic but yeah the size of it was crazy and it looked so real," she looks at him with a questioning look. She didn't understand why he would ask such things, he went to school, didn't he?

"Samuel, why are you asking me stupid questions?"

"That wasn't an illusion sis, it was the real deal, do they teach stuff like that in school?" the last time he was in school healers were only taught stuff regarding healing, he didn't even know they were taught illusions but that thing Orchid had conjured was something else.

"Samuel he's a healer we can't do magic like that," he said looking at him in ridicule.

"Sis when I hit that thing, it didn't go down like an illusion it was pretty solid." he tells her blankly

"Huh?" she was about to rebuke his statement again but that's when the coffee-siping doctor rushes over them telling them both notifying that Orchid had just woken up, Racquel rushed past the both of them rushing to see Orchid, as she walks into his ward she sees him talking to the nurse from the counter earlier today, he then turns and looks at Racquel, as their eyes meet the two have totally different reaction, one smiles and the other starts to tear up.

She rushes towards him and wraps her arms around him hugging his neck,

"What happened dude? What happened to Jake? How did we end up here?" he asks him looking confused,

"You blanked out when you made that huge water goddess, figure, thing..." she says not even sure what even conspired as so many things were going on, the words of her brother start to replay in her mind. He answers the question but then asks her own.

She wondered how was he able to conjure such things, even if what her brother said wasn't true and it was all an illusion when was be able to keep something that big stable. And if by any chance what her brother said was by anyhow true then how did he do it, healers can't produce magic like that.

"Hey Orchid, your illusions, did you learn to make them real?" she looks at him seriously

Orchid starts laughing,

"Did you hit your head?" he asks her questioning her maddening question.

"What do you mean, do I look like a priest to you? We can't produce magic like that, you know that." he looks towards her left spotting Alek coming towards them with crutches

"You look better!" he comments

"You don't" they both start giggling,

Orchid and Racquel told Alek about everything that went down as it did, no gaps or alterations as requested. The two share based on their narrative, sometimes rebuking each other's side of their stories mid explanation. Alek stood there patiently listened to what the two were saying...

"Wait so your brother beat him up in seconds? How?" as if on cue Racquel's brother comes up right behind them placing his hand on Alek's shoulder. Alek shrieks to the ominous figure's touch.

"Hello, sir" he turns around immediately and bows in respect but just a slight bit of fear mixed in that gesture...