"I don't think you need a pamphlet's worth of volunteers. Jackson will probably turn up with a split lip one of these days, though," she adds softly.

"...eech, yes he might. I dunno how long it'd take me to learn how to heal the kind of stuff he complains about, though. A few more months, at least."

"He might not be unwilling to have something healed even if he doesn't volunteer a complaint."

"He has come to me looking for healing before."

"I didn't know that."

"That one time he knocked on my door, while Alex was here and you were sleeping in my room?"

"Huh, I didn't put it together, I was half-asleep."

"Yeah, apparently his dom went a bit too far and he needed healing. And it's. Uh. Happened more times since. But he hasn't asked for any more healing."

"Well, brag about your conditional campus license for it and see what happens, I guess."

"Yeah. But, again, that will take a few months still, small cuts aren't very common."

"Yup. Well, if you can do bruises you can practice on me."

"If this follows the same pattern my self-healing did, bruises are next."

"Huzzah."

"Still at least two months for that, though, and might be more 'cause pushing healing onto other people is harder."

"I won't hold my breath." Hair-ruffle.

"Good, I don't know if I'll be able to bring someone back from death by asphyxiation anytime in the next fifteen years."

Giggle.

"Generalized resurrection, though: totally on the to-do list."

"Probably a joint discipline problem. Get the dead person a body, put their mind in it. Bet it branches off from invasive mindreading and postcog."

"There surely is a way to do it without the invasive part."

"If they were uploaded by tech in advance, maybe. Otherwise not so sure."

"Hmm... you could perhaps figure out a way to, like, automate it? And make it so your brain doesn't necessarily inform you of what it's actually doing and what information it's transferring."

"I mean, trying to actually process all the information in a person's entire mind would be work for a hell of an optimized psion in the first place, but maybe."

"Well, if resurrection were easy someone'd've done it by now. Besides, we're both awesome and gonna live forever and have all the time in the world for that little joint project."

"Mm-hm."