Lick... drip... lick... scrape...
I woke up and saw Wolfy's 2 heads and tongues hovering over me.
"Good boy... no, stop it, I'm fine, thank you..." I shoved him away and made a quick search: Body - ok; clothes - singed; head - hurting; face: well, very wet!

I stood up and remembered my comrades being in danger.
"Wolfy, where are the others? Come on, lead me to them..."
My pet wolf whined, turned and set off, nose on the ground - I followed.
"Now, let's try this," I mumbled whilst following him. "Purify and clean on me, will see what happens..."
Drawing the rune into the air and pointing it at me - Whoosh
"Shucks, drat..."
I was wet all over - but at least headache and burning lungs were okay again.
Wolfy looked at me with the typical dog laugh, I glared back:
"So what? I'm still an apprentice - now don't you laugh at me - otherwise I'll use this spell on you!"
A short whelp an Wolfy continued tracking down my comrades - then I saw the first...
JVB drooped against the wall, holding a shield in his hand and slightly green in the face, my face lit up - I drew the rune of Rinse and Purify into the air and let it gently float to him:
A small squirt of water landed into his face.
"DQueene, want the next try?"
I looked closer: Oh, it wasn't DQueene, my nearsightedness had deceived me - it was BeeGee, not looking all to good: A bit scorched, dirty, greasy and a bit hurt.
Leaving JVB, who didn't seem to be very pleased with my cleaning effort I went up to the imp and offered to help. Ignoring his wary look, progress comes from experimenting, doesn't it? I dug out my book and thumbed it through.
"Hmm, shrink..." He backed off.
"Hey wouldn't it help you to be smaller? I mean, you could save yourself the trouble of using lockpicks, but on the other hand - you couldn't collect any gold coins, right? Let me have another look... Blow! That's it! Show a bit more positive and constructive attitude, BG. I have to try out everything in the book - and I'm only trying to help!"
I drew the Blow Rune carefully in the air, hoping my quick estimations of his size and weight were right. (Good, he didn't know how bad I was at school in physics and maths). I softly blew the rune into his direction.
BeeGee turned topsyturvy into the air and crashed against the wall, where he hovered helplessly. But the gush of wind had removed all stains in his face and clothes, giving him a shiny new appearance - a bit red in the face though....
I was pleased with the result and used the rune on myself to dry. Phoosh... I looked down on myself and saw, my garments were dry - and my poor blouse, the one I had sacrified as a bandage for Wolfy, had shrunk.
"Bad quality," I grumbled. "This is something I have to talk about with the Larians - definitely another bug."
"Anyone else wanting to be washed and cleaned?" I looked into the round and noticed that even Wolfy had taken a few steps back and tried to become invisible.
"No one? Bah, then stay dirty," I pouted.

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