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Abras Ashkevron at the start of the book 3 timeline (A Song for Two Voices)
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Probably he can! Healing-Sight seems to work exactly the same on his own body as on a different body, it's maybe even a bit easier. The rhythms are all different, of course. 

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His own organs are way bigger but they're surprisingly similar apart from that. "Why is Healing-Sight easier to use on yourself? Is it because you can already sense your own body so you're getting some of the information twice?"

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"Probably! Also might be something to do with energy flow and how much is coming out of your reserves, I don't know exactly." She glances at the time-candle in their room. "Hmm, it's been a while. Are you tired yet or want to keep going?" 

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"I'm sort of tired, but also this is the most interesting thing I've done in a while and I kind of don't want to stop until right when I need to sleep. Unless you mean you want to stop in which case I can't take a hint but can be told to go away."

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Shavri giggles. "No, this is really fun! Er, I do need to go actually see patients in a candlemark though. But if we cover a lot before that, you could come with if they're okay with it, and see some examples of injuries and sickness too." 

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"That would be really interesting if the patients don't mind, thanks. What should I look at next?"

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"Hmm. Maybe we'll look at bones and muscles? They're a bit fiddlier to See than the main internal organs, but not as little as blood vessels." 

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"Okay."

Muscles turn out to be a lot easier to find if he finds them on himself first by moving them and then switches to looking at the mouse. Bones are harder to cheat at but still findable eventually.

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That easily fills the next hour and then Shavri asks if he's still up for seeing patients with her. "Gemma says it's fine, but she also reminded me that I got a headache the first time I tried to use Healing-Sight all day, and you should go easy on it." 

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He has, not exactly a headache but the looming threat of one, like he's been reading small print in a dimly-lit room. He's had a lot worse for worse reasons. "I'd still like to go, yes. If using Healing-Sight gets too hard I can still learn things just from listening."

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"All right, let's go then!" 

The first patient they see is a woman with pneumonia. Shavri can point out to him in Mindspeech how the inflammation in her lungs shows up both as more movement than ought to be there, her body trying to fight the infection, and also less, the small air-sacs deflated or blocked so the energy isn't flowing properly. 

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Abras doesn't have a non-awkward way to express "that's bad but also really interesting", so he just nods along.

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Next patient has a broken arm! Shavri doesn't tell him this fact, though; she asks him to use his Sight and try to figure out the problem. 

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The fact that he's holding his arm really carefully is a helpful hint, but it still takes him a bit to be sure it's the bone and not the muscles around it. He reports his guess and resists the urge to rub his eyes. It probably wouldn't help anyway, it's not actually his eyes that hurt.

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:You all right?: Shavri sends when they're done with that patient. :You look kind of tired: 

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:Just getting that headache you warned me about. I don't have any other plans for the evening though, so it's fine.:

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:You'd better call it a night though - the headache gets really bad fast, one time I ignored it at the start and then I couldn't sleep half the night: 

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:Oh, ouch. Thanks for the warning; I do need to be awake tomorrow. I'll see you at our next lesson, then.: He doesn't want to stop just because it hurts, but he knows he'll regret it if he doesn't. Hopefully practice will help with his endurance here as elsewhere.

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Shavri walks him to the door of Healers' and hugs him goodbye. "See you next week! Oh, and if you want to come over for tea or something sooner than that, I'd like that a lot." 

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"Thanks. I'd like to." He'll try to find some room in his busy schedule of work and being sad.

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She smiles brightly at him. "I'll send you a note or something when I have some time free!" 

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"Okay. See you!"

Shavri's foresight stopped him from getting a headache too bad to sleep, but it's still bad enough to keep him awake long enough to fall into thinking about Tylendel, and he's groggy and slow the next day, stopping what he's doing several times an hour for what he tells people is "woolgathering" but is actually either "missing Tylendel" or "finishing a step in a task and forgetting what step is next". He gets through his work by using the calming loop a lot, fretting every time that he's forgetting how to have emotions and manage them like a normal human being.

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Shavri does not send a note but Savil does Mindspeak him in the afternoon. :Dinner tonight, ke'chara? I missed you yesterday: 

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:Sure.:

:Actually, can it be kind of a late dinner?:

:I kind of need a nap before I can have a conversation. Because my head is all over the place. Sorry.:

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:Hey, of course, that's all right. Or we could do dinner tomorrow if that's better: 

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