Space Core

POV: Antier Egos

"-It's okay, just wait a bit for me to change it," I told a young boy, his arm had been cut pretty badly during the panic. I was currently changing out one of the rags we used as bandages for another one; It wouldn't be the best, but the majority of enchanted healing objects had already been used or were broken.

Thankfully, the boy hadn't lost so much that he wouldn't be able to use his right arm and hand; Though it would probably take quite a while for feeling to return from it.

Once I was done with that, I looked over the large group around us; And to my relief, found that most only needed some time to heal up. Finally; I wouldn't need to continue to spend more energy on that.

I suddenly felt a tugging of my shirt and found a familiar face looking at me. It was Harry; Our last conversation hadn't gone too well, but since we were pretty much placed as leaders by default because of our involvement in helping people, we had to continue to work together despite it. Hopefully, he's calmed down a bit and we'll be able to talk more.

"Oh, uhm, yes? What is it?" I asked.

Harry looked mildly uncomfortable to be talking to me, he was probably remembering our last conversation. "I- Well... I had a thought. It's... about your church. They're the ones in charge of the city, aren't they? Why haven't they taken back control and started reconstruction?"

I was a bit taken aback by the question, wasn't the answer obvious? But then, a thought crossed my mind that I hadn't really considered before, 'He's a child.'; It had been so easy to ignore how young Harry was when they had both worked to help everyone out, but now I saw the fact that he was probably just as confused and scared as everyone else even if he was calmer than most.

I shook the thoughts out of my head and went to answer the question; It would be better to answer as much as I can. "Well... they're greedy cowards."

I paused for a few seconds, slightly enjoying the look of pure confusion on Harry's face before continuing to talk. "The ones here won't do anything to do with us, they probably all left during the chaos to report to a main city church. And there's also the fact that it would be better for them in terms of money; If they can figure out this 'system' and what it does, they'll be able to use it for themselves if it's good, or sell a cure for a lot of gold if its bad."

I watched as Harry's face changed emotions rapidly, from confusion to surprise to slight confusion and then to anger. When Harry next spoke, his voice was strained from trying not to scream. "Y-You mean... that they would prefer to let us die out here than actually help!?"

"Yes."

A few moments of silence passed between us before a fire of determination lit up in Harry's eyes. "Well... if they're going to try and take advantage of this; We're going to do so too! If they aren't going to rebuild the town then we will! Right, let's go."

I laughed under my breath, of course, the kid would take building an entire city over letting the church take over again.

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