"I've seen burns on TV?" he says. "They don't usually heal as quickly as this. And I don't usually recover this quickly, I don't think." He frowns. "I'm not sure I've ever burnt myself before. Huh."

"So maybe you do usually recover this quickly, except for the vacuity of this statement due to it never having happened before."

"Yeah," he says. "I don't think I do, because I don't heal that much quicker than most people from cuts, but perhaps burns are special."

"Yes, I am talking about burns."

"Oh, right – I was just talking about recovering from injury in general. Which. I realize makes very little sense in context, okay, yeah anyway. Weird healing, cool."

"Should we test blunt-force to see whether it's magic in general or just burns?"

"Yeah. Probably a good idea."

"...more blood?"

"Sure," he says, reopening the cut and offering it to her (yay).

Blood! Different symbol, she takes a step back, then asks, "Where?"

"On my body or where in the room? I don't know how big the blast is."

"Your body."

"Uh, depends on what kind of a blast it is. If it's just gonna give me a nasty bruise, um, arm– uh, might work, or if it's going to knock me over then presumably my chest if it won't break bones?"

"Nasty bruise, it probably won't knock you over."

"Yeah, um, I dunno – left arm probably?"

"Okay, whenever you're ready."

He nods. "Think I am."

So she blasts his arm. It's concentrated like a punch, and hurts about as much.

Ow. Well that's quite painful. "Okay, well, that definitely hurt so I didn't nullify it outright, woo."

He pulls up his sleeve. It does not appear to be bruised yet.

It was strong enough that it ought to be, pretty soon anyway.

… Pretty soon it starts to go somewhat yellowish? Theo also notes that it's a little painful.

"Yes, these things tend to be."

He rolls his eyes. "Yes, they do tend to be, and I was just confirming that this scenario does not seem to be different in that respect."

He giggles and kisses Theo's cheek.

"It doesn't seem to be getting more so, though," he says.