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Sigh.

She drops the trance to respond - I can see where they're healed badly and I should be able to teleport those bits out - it's not going to be painless, but it should be a lot better than re-breaking them, and heal better, too - then picks it back up to watch his reaction.

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Resignation, vague amusement, confusion as he tries to figure out how that'd work. And background screaming terror and a desire to stop existing.

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She drops the trance entirely. Only if you want me to; it's reasonable not to.

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I think it's preferable unless it somehow leaves me with not enough to reconstruct from.

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I don't think it will. I'll start with just one bone so you can check, though - I shouldn't do them all in one sitting anyway, it's going to be fiddly and I'll need my focus.

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All right. Go ahead.

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She drops back into the trance. She starts with the fingertip bone of his left pinky; it takes her a few minutes to arrange the spell to remove exactly what she wants it to, but then the removal is instantaneous.

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He exhales sharply, spends a minute trying to get a feel for it. I think that's easier to fix than rebreaking it, yes.

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She grins, not very happily. Good. What kind of pace do you want, for the rest?

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It's going to take all of my concentration and also possibly most of the calcium I have access to to fix this one; why don't I let you know when it's done and then you can do another.

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Sure.

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And he gets to work trying to imagine how he wants his bone to work. He is desperately drained; it's hard.

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She heads back up to work on her spell a little more; after another half-hour she's confident enough in it to give it a try. She lands in a jungle and spends the rest of the morning carefully observing the local wildlife from various hiding places; she ends up reasonably sure of the safety of a few new kinds of fruits and berries, and brings some of the latter back with her when she returns for lunch.

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She looks like she could use congratulating. He congratulates her and asks how the area was.

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Pretty nice. Warm, hilly, more moist than here. Some very pretty birds and flowers - she sends him memories of a few kinds of variously bright and interestingly-shaped ones. Everything's very different, I'm going to have to check all the new plants to make sure they don't do anything funny, but we should be okay.

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I can eat things and notice if they're poisoning me.

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Me too, and I'm less likely to be hurt by it.

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How do you do it? You don't have the same relationship with your body, is there a spell?

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I can notice things even if I can't do anything about them, just by paying attention - she sends a brief snippet of her awareness of her body - but the same sense I use to cast spells gives me that kind of detail about myself, too.

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All right. Please just don't get poisoned.

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I'm not going to try anything I haven't seen at least three or four different kinds of animals eating, that's usually a pretty good indication that it's safe.

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I am curious if your world is more dangerous than mine for a healthy Elda or just for a kobold. Eventually it'd be nice to explore it.

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Nod. It might just be different - kobolds are good at stealth and looking out for one another, you'll be faster and stronger and more intimidating, we'd have different things to worry about.

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I can also probably build myself magic armor, though it'll take a while. Or you could ask my brothers for an extra set.

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Might help. What would it be enspelled to do?

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