Well, they only need to get within ten miles of the center, how big is this forest?

Pretty big. And there aren't any paths bigger than a game trail, that's not helping anything.

Okay, what about just teleporting directly within ten miles of the center.

Teleportation spell targeting doesn't work that way.

It seems like it ought to be possible to make it work that way, given that it can target the forest at all. 

They keep heading inwards, anyway.

...it can't target the forest, that's why Rána had to spend several hours trying random forest locations to get it.

After a while the animals stop getting more dangerous; they're still very varied, and very bitey.

Gosh this is a big forest. It's almost like the mage they're looking for doesn't want to be found.

It can target 'forest' but not 'dangerous forest'?

And the size is very much to their advantage; it means they probably won't need to interact with the mages to get the spellform.

Yup, it has to do with how having that many trees in one place changes their surroundings, it's like how it's possible to target different kinds of rock.

Eventually they catch a glimpse of some stone buildings through the trees. They're still pretty far off; even with Quendi sight they probably would have missed them if they weren't paying such careful attention.

Can they hear thoughts?

Nope. Too far away.

They keep heading in that direction.

And after a little while they're close enough to hear thoughts. There are a couple dozen people living here, of a variety of species, mostly human. No-one is actively casting, but a couple of them are playing around with the spell form, trying to figure out how to accomplish this or that, which is enough to learn it from.

The form is very intricate; not quite as complex, or as pretty, as Rána's teleportation form, but closer to it than any of the other forms they've picked up.

Excellent.

They head home before being caught.

Rána shows up presently to get the form. Ooooh, she reports, after a few moments' trance. I'm going to have to take some time to figure out all the stuff this can do, but it's very promising. I can definitely do healing - better than Quendi; it'd be hard to give someone that much control, but I think I can do all the things I've seen you do and then some...

Oh, good.

And indeed they are in a great mood.

Justified. She pops over to the other host to let them know, and then spends the rest of the day with the humans - safe, reversible sterility is a bit beyond what she can do at the moment, but she can do plenty for them with more straightforward things - simple healing, fixing old damage, patching congenital problems, setting the occasional missing part to regrow - and having the form to refer to lets her diagnose a wider variety of things with the mage-sense, as well.

After dinner, she stops in to see Maitimo.

Hey! Heard the good news - how long until the people experimenting with the form get good with it, do you expect?

Depends on what you mean by 'good'; I expect we'll still be figuring things out about this form in a couple decades, it's very complex. But we'll probably have all the common stuff we want to do worked out in a few months, and there's plenty of useful stuff that's basic enough that we can do it right away.

Excellent.

Yeah.

Fixing scars is one of the straightforward things, if you want.

All right.

She nods. It's not instantaneous, it's more like a better version of your intentional healing ability, they'll go back to normal over a few days. And I'm not sure what it's going to feel like if you're used to having control of the process - I can make it so you can turn the spell off and on, by section if you'd like, if that might bother you.

That does sound easier.

Nod. Is there anything else that might make it easier?

I don't think so.