{IRIS}
"Could it be that…" Her voice dropped. "You healed me?"
"Huh?"
"You touched me earlier," she said. "I remember feeling warm—refreshed. Then the pain was gone. I thought I was just dazed, but… was that your arcane? Can you heal other like Doctor Vivienne?"
I looked down at my hands as though seeing them for the first time. I could heal myself faster than most, but that was instinctive, almost animal. I'd never even considered—
"I… I don't know," I said honestly.
"It's the only explanation I can think of," Caroline murmured. "But arcane shouldn't work here. Even the staff can barely use theirs inside the academy. Students aren't supposed to be able to use arcane at all."
"R-right…"
Silence fell between us as we walked. My mind raced, grasping answers. But none of them fit what had just happened.
"Then what was it?" Caroline asked quietly, more to herself than to me.
