By the time Kate had rushed in he was barely alive.  Soft labored breaths left him as his chest gently rose and fell.  Ali had accepted that it will be not long before he would reach The Gods.  Ali was burning as the skin on his body barely felt attached to him.  He had reached the point of been beaten so bad that his mind had shut off from the pain.  The pain from the bullwhip that had left the dark red blood dripping down his back that the healers and mages both had just barely sealed.  He wasn’t sure what the sound was that left Kate as he was beyond the point of actually caring.<br/><br/>Then Kate’s magic hit him, it was almost worse than the whipping and his lips parted and a loud gurgling scream left him, he had thought he would not have that left in him as the foul magic seeped into his being, bones that were broken turned and snapped back into place.  The pain of that was almost worse than the original breaking as he felt first his left hand.  The bones cracking and snapping as they locked back in place, the atrophied muscle starting to move again.<br/><br/>The following thirty minutes were the most horrific thing Ali had ever experienced and then he felt the cool water touch his lips, it was so painful against the parched flesh that he took a deep breath, the water entered him and it hurt.  Why did this wicked woman try and save him, he had just gotten into accepting the idea of death.<br/><br/>His wicked body betrayed him as he took a breath, the burn of his lungs was all but gone and he took a slightly deeper breath.  Drawing his lungs open, the ribs that were cracked were not anymore and he found that the labored breath he had been taken were not needed anymore and he turned to look at the fox like lady and he turned his head on her and he said to her.  “You should have let me die, but for your kindness I do not have the words to thank you.”<br/><br/>Strange, this girl wasn’t much older than a child and she had poured magic into him that a master wizard had failed to do, what in the name of the Gods was she.  Eyes focused on her for a moment before defocusing again, God it even hurt to look.  Revenge… he would have it, but first he would let the healing take place.