"Blunt-force trauma. And the burns are, as bad as I want? I just make something very hot."

"Okay, so burns probably works then? Preferably, you know, not horribly bad, on my arm or something, but noticeable so we can actually tell how well it heals."

"Okay. Where exactly?"

He points to a spot on his forearm! Because he has no idea where would be best but 'his arm' is probably better than some other places?

"Okay. ...um, I might need some blood..."

"Uh, okay," he says. "Does anybody have a needle or should I see if I can cut myself without…?"

"Your nails can, can't they?"

"Should be able to, yeah? I don't think I've actually tried," he shrugs.

So he tries! It does in fact work, now he has a cut in his palm, would Willow like to collect his blood?

...yeah, she guesses. She makes a symbol on the palm of her hand with it and then touches Theo's arm where indicated and starts chanting in Latin.

He waits for her to finish and expects a burning sensation.

Not really. It's a warm sensation. That gets warmer. And warmer. Up to hot. And up.

Okay, well, he expects a burning sensation when it gets up to 'burning', then.

He'll grit his teeth a bit. Burning can get quite painful.

Yep, it'll get there fairly soon.

And then he'll make sure it actually seems to be burning a little and if Willow doesn't stop it he'll move his arm away.

(Ow.)

Well without him saying anything she won't know when to stop.

Well he thought she might have some standard 'this is the time for a bad burn, this is the time for horrific burns' or something.

"That's enough."

She stops chanting and removes her hand (which is clear of any blood) from his arm.

It definitely seems to have burnt! Ow.

He doesn't think it hurts that badly, just quite badly, but still– ow.

Awwww. Sadde snuggles up. But watches to see whether it heals quickly.

(Ow.)

It doesn't seem to get much worse, actually. It just sticks at 'ow' and doesn't actually blister or anything, just looks red.

He continues to watch.

Stays red for a bit! Gets rather less painful for Theo, though it continues to look red.

"Huh," he says. "It's not as bad as I expected – seems to be healing quickly, or at least a lot less painful than it should be now? I think?"

"How can you tell? Presumably it's always been however painful it is."

"Nnno?" he says. "It was painful and now it's less so but overall it's not actually as bad as I would think a burn like this would be?" He looks at his arm and notices it's just red. "Well, as bad as I would expect a burn resulting from that sort of heat for that time to be, since this is just– red."

"No, I mean, presumably you've always—recovered this fast, or whatever, so how do you know other people don't, is what I'm asking."