Matthew woke up a few days later. He was at home on his very bed. His injures were completely healed. Even his scars were nowhere to be seen. Not just from the injuries he suffered from the fireball. All of them. From the stab wounds he got from goblins and robbers to the cut on his leg he suffered when he was just 8.

His hair was full and more lustrous than has ever been. He had plenty of white spots, discoloration from new skin cells that had yet to tan under the sun. Those were the only evidence he was ever hurt.

Matthew looked to the side where Ffyr slept on a very small bed that was put over the night stand beside his bed. What happened? Did Faralynn or Erin brought in their doctors to save his life as Ffyr hoped for? But if they did, why make all his scars go away?

If the order to remove the scars came from Faralynn…

Matthew blushed at the thought. It meant that his girlfriend wanted his skin smooth. The sexual implication of that was not lost on him.

Even if he was healed by Faralynn's doctors, why was he home? Shouldn't he be in the hospital under care and being monitored?

Was this then the work of Titania? Did Ffyr's mother heal him with her godhood?

"You're mumbling, Matt." Ffyr said lazily waking up and rubbing her eyes.

"Ffyr." Matthew smiled seeing her at her normal size again. "How come I am like this? Whole and unharmed?" He asked at her.

"Someone healed you, duh." Ffyr mocked him while flying inside his closet.

"Was it mommy?" He asked and immediately bit his tongue. He mean to say "your mother", but not even that the deal with Titania allowed?

"No. Was a woman I never saw before. Very powerful. Even more than Farzan." Ffyr said getting out of the closet wearing jeans and a crop top green t-shirt.

"Wait." Matthew said confused. "How long was I asleep? Who was this woman? And where did you get those clothes?"

"About a week? Although you were healed, your body lacked sustenance to survive, so the kind woman gave you that ring to feed you while you slept." Ffyr explained pointing to his hand where a gold finger he never saw before was tightly placed on his pinky finger.

It must have been a magical ring with the Doctor's Nourish skill on it that activated continuously. Much better than getting a serum bag on the vein in the hospital. If hospitals weren't using it, Matthew could only shudder thinking how expensive that ring was.

"I don't know who the woman was." Ffyr said sitting by a vanity dresser her size set on Matthew's nightstand beside the bed she was sleeping on and put some make up. "And the clothes, the furniture, everything are presents from your sister. She even taught me how to put make up." Ffyr said winking at Matthew.

"Sarah." Matthew said passing a hand over his face. Of course she would treat Ffyr like a fashion project.

He looked at his nightstand. It was on its way to become a doll house with the small furniture on top of it. He then looked at Ffyr putting makeup on herself and humming a tune happily. A dollhouse for her was actually a good idea, he thought.

Matthew changed his clothes and got downstairs where he found his family eating lunch and casually talking with a small woman with childlike face.

The woman was very short, had light blue eyes and a straight blonde hair that seemed to shine when sunlight hit it. Her hair was parted on the middle with each side covering her ears and barely hitting her shoulders. Her face had no trace of makeup at all, but she looked incredibly beautiful.

She was wearing a priestly white robe that hid the curves of her body. She walked barefoot, but Matthew could see a pair of brown leather sandals resting by the door entrance. The robe had only a small red cross sewed over the left side of her chest.

When she looked at him, Matthew felt an inexplicable sense of serenity and awe. For the first time since he came back from hell, there was no noise anymore. She looked him in the eye and smiled. That was enough for Matthew's eyes to fill with water and to make his voice stuck in his throat.

"Matt?" Matthew's mother called to him getting up and hugging her child tightly. "Thank god you're awake!" She cried.

Matthew's father smiled at him from the table not stopping eating while Sarah also rushed to hug him.

"Here's your ring back, lady." Ffyr said flying the ring Matthew was wearing back to the woman in white.

Lady? Matthew thought to himself. He's never seen Ffyr treat anyone so respectfully like that. Not even mommy… Even in his thoughts?

"Thank you, kind fairy." The woman said with a big smile. Her voice was much like Professor Claude's. Filled with sobriety, calmness and wisdom.

"The lady is the one who healed me?" Matthew asked also calling her lady. Something in him told him to treat that woman with the utmost respect since even Ffyr was treating her like that.

"I was, child." She answered and pulled a chair for him. "Come and sit and eat. The Nourish spell is very useful, put it only turns mana into energy for your body. It doesn't give you all nutrients you need to survive." She explained calmly and slowly.

Matthew felt his body floating while he walked towards the chair beside the woman.

"I'm sorry if I didn't introduce myself." She said when Matthew sat down.

"You're the Saintess." Matthew interrupted her. It was obvious by now.

It's not like he has never seen her pictures before. Of course he had. But his mind just could not believe she was there, even seeing her in person. It must be someone who looks like her. It's not possible that the Saintess herself was the one who healed me. Thoughts like that clouded his belief. But that feeling of peace. That soothing voice. And how thoroughly he was healed. All that was enough now to make him think harder and believe. It was Saintess Monica.

"Yes. I'm Monica Figueira. And you are Matthew, Orpheu's student." She said smilling at him while she served him some of the food that was on the table.

"I am." Matthew answered confused and thanked her for serving him.

"You were very lucky." She said taking a piece of bread and tearing it in half with her hands and giving him one of the pieces. "Don't eat very fast. You stomach hasn't had nothing in it or weeks. Eat slowly and just a bit until it gets used to food again."

Matthew nodded at her instructions and than asked:

"Lucky why?"

"That I found you when I did." Monica answered. "I suppose I should tell you everything from the beginning." She added. "Orpheu and I studied in the same school. He was already a very skilled swordsman even then. At that time, there was no age limit to enter the dungeons. My mother was very sick and I needed money for the treatment. Orpheu and other friends then decided to help me and we started adventuring together." Monica said with a smile while nibbling the bread in her hand.

Matthew ate slowly like she said he should and just listened intently.

"I'll not bore you with the details, but we managed to save my mother from her cancer. We got enough money at the end. I'm forever grateful to him for that. For helping me." Monica continued. "For reasons not of his fault, our levels got very far from his. And with time we disbanded the party. But even not adventuring together, we kept in touch."

"They say you came to heal him when he got hurt in the Tower of the Dead." Matthew commented.

"I did. The Dullahan, right? You fought that thing too, right?" Monica asked.

"I did." Matthew confirmed.

"Thank you. You saved him then." She said putting the bread down.

"So… Why did you come to heal me? I don't want to be rude. On the contrary. I'm very grateful that you saved me. But I don't understand why." Matthew said leaving his fork down, already with his stomach full.

"After you and your friends returned from the Castle of Novak, we lost contact with Orpheu." She revealed.

Then it hit Matthew. Orpheu took a leave of absence from the school. He was supposed to have returned by now, but he never did. There was so much happening in Matthew's life that he didn't even notice that.

"He went to the Land of Eternal Sun." Matthew said more to remind himself.

"That was what Tina said too." Monica pouted.

"Tina? From m class?" Matthew asked.

"Yes. I came to Southport to meet the students that went to the dungeon with him. You guys were the last ones to see him." Monica explained. "Tina works with the Black Tower and Bianca was one of our party members." She added referring to the Sage Bianca who was the owner of the Black Tower guild.

"Did Tina tell you why he went to the Land of Eternal Sun?" Matthew asked.

"He wants to find Kurt." Monica shook her head in disapproval of Orpheu's behavior.

"Yes." Matthew confirmed. "Kurt being the friend who was caught in the teleportation trap, right?"

"Oh. Orpheu didn't tell you his name?"

"No. He only said he lost a friend."

"Anyway." Monica changed the subject. "Your friend, Erin, called Tina crying saying you were dying in the middle of the night. Tina then broke down the door of my hotel room and begged me to save you. So I did." Monica finished the part of the story that concerned Matthew.

"Thank you for saving me." Matthew said bowing his head to her.

"It's alright child. You're also a son of God. It's my duty to save people like you." Monica patted his head gently as if blessing him.

"You can't contact, Professor Orpheu? Not even through Dream Walk?" Matthew asked thinking about Monica's problem. Out of gratitude for her and concern for his professor, he wanted to help.

"Yes." Monica said in a sad tone.

"I don't know if this can help. But have you read his research on the Castle of Novak dungeon?" Matthew asked.

"Bianca has read it 5 times already." Monica smiled thankfully for him trying to help.

"Have you entered the dungeon?" Matthew asked.

"No. None of us have." Monica said rubbing her chin as if a light lit up inside her head.

"You might learn something new there. Professor Orpheu went inside there many times to find the Orb of Vast Skies location. I assume you already searched the planet he went to." Matthew gave her an idea.

"Thank you Matthew." Monica smiled with her eyes a bit wet. "You rekindled my hope."

Monica left soon after saying goodbyes to Matthew's family. She walked away hurriedly. Matthew's idea really gave her hope of finding Orpheu alive. She was in haste now and determined to find her old friend.

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