Blood Queen Reborn-Chapter 19 A Pair of Glasses

Quinn left for his dorm room, and decided to just relax his body. It was still sore from the beating earlier that day even with Hayley’s healing.

Entering his dorm, he saw Peter hunched over a table reading a book. Next to the book was a plastic tub of mud.

"Hey Quinn..." Peter muttered before yawning.

[Erin has gained 25+ EXP]

[95/200 EXP]

Quinn was really going to need to figure out a way to mute the notifications.

He took a seat next to Peter, and squinted his eyes at the earth ability book. Skimming over the text, he could understand why Peter was struggling so hard as the instructions really weren’t the clearest. Either that, or he was misreading the words since everything was blurry.

"Who wrote this book?" Quinn asked, lifting the cover to see the front. It unfortunately didn’t have an author listed.

"I don’t know..." Peter slowly blinked, "I’ve been staring at this book all day, and the most I can do is this."

Peter then took out a chunk of mud from the tub and shaped it into a round cylinder.

"Wow, that’s impressive!" Quinn complimented, but Peter didn’t seem to really accept it.

Peter set down the mud cylinder, and took off his glasses, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands, "Is it? How can I just protect myself with mud? I’m not a high enough level to control other stuff."

Quinn then took out a mud chunk and tried to shape it into something impressive, only to make a sad lumpy ball, "...Well it’s certainly better than what I can do."

This entire time, Peter hadn’t taken a good look at his roommate. However, when seeing Quinn’s messy lump of a ball, he noticed that his face was bare.

"Quinn—! Your glasses!" Peter pointed at him.

Quinn instinctively touched his face, getting a little bit of mud on his cheek, "Ah crap—" he wiped the mud away with his knuckles, "Don’t worry about me, I’m healed now. Can’t really say the same for my glasses though."

Quinn looked at his hands, then back at Peter, "Give me a moment, I need to wash my hands."

"Don’t worry— I got this," Peter began, before he placed his hands on Quinn’s, picking up the mud into a more spherical ball than Quinn’s attempt.

His hands were now basically clean, and Quinn took out his broken frames to try to fix them again.

"Thanks, Peter," Quinn replied.

Peter heard the compliment, and smiled.

As Quinn examined his glasses, he found out the full extent of the damage done. The middle was split apart, a lens was cracked, and the sides were all bent. He sighed as he got to work bending the sides back into place.

[Erin has gained 25+ EXP]

[120/200 EXP]

Ignoring what Erin was doing, he managed to bend the sides back into place. Despite his best attempts to fix the nose bridge part using what tape was left, it was simply too weak.

"Damn..." Quinn muttered to himself.

Peter glanced at what Quinn was getting frustrated with.

"If Fex was here, he could’ve used his strings to tie your glasses together," Peter joked.

"Haha, yeah," Quinn thought as he had the mental image of string wrapped around his glasses holding it together. Then, he was reminded of the fact that Fex was a vampire, "Speaking of which, where is he?"

"I think he went to the library," Peter shrugged.

"Hmm," he hummed. He really wasn’t sure what Fex’s deal was, or his ulterior motives. So far, Fex hadn’t done anything bad to him or Peter, so he was hesitant to say he was a bad person just yet. Not only that, but he hadn’t recalled a single time where Fex was bothered by the sunlight, maybe he could be asked for help on how to be a vampire.

Before he could think on it further, Peter’s body leaned on Quinn’s arm, surprising him. The boy yawned, then blinked a couple of times.

"Don’t get tired just yet, we still have plenty of time left in the day," Quinn gently shook Peter, waking him up, "Look, I can help you study this ability stuff."

Peter’s eyes widened, then looked up to see Quinn, "Seriously? Are you actually considering the earth ability?"

"Well, unless I get a ton of money, or someone buys me a book, it’s kinda the only ability I could get. Besides, if I do learn this, then I could fight back against those jerks."

Suddenly, Peter started to shift around uncomfortably, sitting upright in his chair, "I thought that way too, but..."

Quinn gave Peter a concerned look, "You know you can ask me for help."

Peter shook his head, "It’s nothing, let’s just focus on studying."

Quinn looked over Peter, but didn’t see a single injury on him. Not only that, but Quinn was at the hospital earlier today, and didn’t see his roommate there either. Still, he was worried for him. He knew personally what it was like to be targeted, and treated as easy pickings.

[Erin has gained 25+ EXP]

[135/200 EXP]

For the rest of the night, Quinn decided to be an extra head that Peter could talk to as they looked at the earth ability book together. Quinn didn’t actually learn the ability, just in case there was an opportunity for him to learn something else, but if nothing else, this would serve as a head start.

—

Outside of the gaming pods room, Fex was following the scent of that strange smelling girl he saw yesterday, and eventually found where the scent led, the gaming room. Not only that, but the smell had changed from what Fex presumed was a slightly off human into a halfling.

With the sudden change in scent, Fex was already beginning to make theories as to what happened to her. Was she marked by a vampire, and was now only just turned? Or was there some other thing to this story entirely?

’Now this is interesting, I wonder what family she belongs to,’ Fex thought, ’I definitely have to keep her in mind later.’