"Not a hospital," he said, the pain of the wound causing him visible pain. "If they know I'm hurt it's the first place they'll go looking for me. Besides, no medicine I know of can fix this." He took a map from the glove copartment and opened it, pointing to an isolate lake "Go there, I don't have time to explain why, you'll just have to trust me on this one."<br/><br/>He looked back, seeing the ice already melting and cursing his luck. He had fought these creatures before but something was different about this one. It was shrugging his magic off too easily. Then something dawned on him.<br/><br/>"Its a REALLY good thing we didn't hang around," he said. "That elemental had been enhanced somehow. I could've thrown magic at it until I was exhausted and I may still have done almost nothing to it at all. That amulet around its neck, I've seen it somewhere before, but..." he could feel himself starting to black out. "Talk to me," he said through gritted teeth. "If I lose consciousness then you'll have to do this alone, and I guarantee this is beyond your skills to deal with, whether you have magical ablility or not.."