If only it were more useful. Oh well.

Did you want to try the healing?

Sure.

It's reasonably straightforward; a shallow cut is enough to test with, and it heals back up over the course of ten minutes or so.

"This doesn't interfere too much with the way Elves interact with our bodies. There are lots of processes that we usually permit to go on rather than consciously monitoring them; feels like that, unless you get it into your head to stop yourself healing, and there's no reason to do that."

"Okay." Hug. "Thanks."

"Of course."

"All right. I should get back to the Dwarves. I'll stop by before dinner, though, to see what you come up with for the healing plan."

"Thank you."

And back she goes.

The Dwarves are inexhaustible in applications of magic. The Nolofinweans are happy to get frostbite patched. Everyone experiments contentedly with the new spell for several days.

Rána makes some progress on the birth control, but focuses mostly on the healing, and shows up promptly when she has a few things she's confident can be safely done. I think it'll be best to start with your back; I won't be able to do it all today, but what I can do will help with the pain and it'll help me figure out what else I should be prioritizing. Okay?

Yes.

Okay. Sitting just like that is fine; I might want you to lie down for some things but this doesn't need it. I'm going to start with your spine - she sets the bones and the tissues that support them to healing, and stays in the trance to examine the muscles that attach to them.

He sits stiffly.

She waits a few seconds after the healing is done. Relax a little?

It takes a minute but he does.

He can have as much time as he needs, she's patient. Okay, thanks. Do you want me to show you what I'm seeing and what I can do about it, or just go ahead and do it?

Just go ahead.

Okay.

She heals the scarring and remaining damage, and then carefully adds bulk to a few of them to make it easier to keep a more natural posture. How's that?

What am I assessing it for, exactly?

Do you feel off-balance, did it make anything feel different in a way you're going to have trouble putting up with for the next while, is there anything I seem to have missed that'd make it better - I expect that's much better than what you were dealing with an hour ago, but it's not completely fixed and this might not be the very best way to leave it.

This seems a good way to leave it.

All right. Just another minute while I look at a few things, then.

He holds still, very stiffly.

There's a lot of work to be done; getting things into better alignment definitely helped, but it'd still almost be easier to list what couldn't use healing. She is definitely going to murder a god, but for now she does a quick survey to get an idea of what's in the worst functional shape and what's having the most impact on the things around it.

Okay, she sends, opening her eyes, done for today.