"...I'm very tempted to try testing how that'd combine with some more interesting things from my world - does it make it harder for people to die, or do they stop aging, or do they age more slowly?"

"It depends a bit on how old they are. For an adult, they stop aging at the exact moment I touch them. For children and teens, they keep aging normally and stop once they're done growing."

"But they still can grow less healthy, or more tired, than they were when you touched them?"

"Yes. At least ordinarily. I'd need to see your interesting otherworldly magic to say for certain, but health and energy aren't things I directly affect with just the preservation touch. One of my blessings might help, though."

"The main power source for my magic is a combination of my own mental energy and my own physical energy. Using too much mental energy causes - what rounds off to depression and executive dysfunction. Using too much physical energy causes hypothermia and weakness. There are some techniques from my world that cause their user or target to age faster - one major example is a rapid-healing medical technique - or even to outright die - though that one seems like it'd yield more reluctantly to manipulation, since it involves trading one life for many of the recent dead. I can show off some of the other techniques, though."

"Hm. Sure. I'm curious. May I poke you to bestow preservation and my blessing of healing?"

"Certainly."

Boop!

"There you are."

"Thanks!"

And then she does something very odd that makes the air around her feel exceptionally heavy. "Hm... I think it's not quite an infinite chakra exploit. It feels like it's influencing something else... I wonder if it'd help with severe exhaustion, though, since that gets to the point of doing direct physical damage... I only kind of know the rapid healing technique, and it's chakra intensive, but from a brief run of that I do think the preservation is stopping it from aging me."

Tisvetaia tilts her head. "That's interesting. May I poke you again? I can see how much time is left on my preservation touch when renewing it."

"Sure!"

Boop! The goddess squints at her.

"Hm. It's subtle, but... about an hour's worth of preservation was used up, in the space of a couple of heartbeats. So it gives you a deeper well to draw from, that could be replenished by me, but not an infinite one."

"Fascinating. Well, I think I'm capable of finding worlds again after I leave them. I suppose the main - well, at least not hilariously dangerous thing to test now is whether the healing blessing affects chakra exhaustion. Though the quickest ways to do that might alter the landscape a little, so I suppose I should get Ellayania's permission, there."

"Not in town, if you please. And far enough away that you won't disrupt the local agricultural endeavors."

"Alright. I might need quick medical aid, if this goes poorly, though I think the Keres's healing abilities should suffice there..."

"Of course, kitten."

"Have fun. Do you all want preservation pokes before you go experiment?"

"If you would be so kind."

Preservation pokes are distributed! Tisvetaia is polite enough to pass on poking anyone that would rather not, for some reason.

... Mora gets a confused look after her poke.

"I'm sorry, may I do that again? It did... something."

"...Sure?"

Sometimes does, actually, feel odd...

Poke!

Tisvetaia squints at her.

"... Your manifestation is fraying. I don't know how long my touch will anchor you, it's hard to... look at, part of you is unbound by time... I do not expect it to do anything you wouldn't appreciate, but. That's. Very odd. I cannot say how soon you'll need a refresher."

"...Yeah, that makes sense. I think - I think I can feel what it's doing, and I'll feel if it stops, so I should at least know when to come back."

The preservation goddess nods thoughtfully.

"I think a luck blessing would do you more good than it would most mortals, would you, ah, like one from me?"

"Yes, thank you."

Boop!

"Good fortune to you. You live a complicated existence."