She shrugs. "I don't actually care whether they were paid to kidnap you or just doing it for kicks, it's not like being sent by your awful guardians makes it better that they're trying to drag you off somewhere against your will. Anyway, wanna be my native guide while I figure out what the hell I'm doing? 'No' is a reasonable answer, I hear there's gonna be a Demon Lord on the lookout for me sometime soon and I'm sure not looking forward to that part so I don't expect you to be either."

"The problem is that my guardians are legally allowed to hire people to kidnap me back to them," she says, mouth pressed into a tight line. "And, honestly, I would much rather hang out with you where I know the kidnappers will get scared off anyway, having to deal with a Demon Lord but not my guardians sounds like a great tradeoff." 

"That works out all right, then! Where were you headed, and can you think of somewhere better to go now that you've got me along? I hear I'm supposed to be gearing up to fight a Demon Lord and I have approximately no idea how to actually do that."

"I was headed to Khargorn," she says, waving in the direction of the city April passed up in favor of rescue, "and even if we end up going somewhere else we'll have to pass through Khargorn first, because the alternative is going back to where my guardians are, and even with the Summoned Hero on my side I refuse to deliberately be in the same city as them." 

"Fair enough!"

"I don't actually know that much about Summoned Heroes and Demon Lords, but, um, you seem to be pretty good with that sword. Probably not kill-the-Demon-Lord-right-now good, but, do you want to more capitalize on that, or learn magic, or what?"

"The sword is magic and makes me better at using it. I want to learn anything and everything that I could plausibly throw at a Demon Lord, in some kind of sensible order, and I have no idea what that order should be. Magic does sound like a good stop along the way though."

"I know... a little magic, and nothing about swords, except, like, 'sharp bit goes in the enemy.'"

"So maybe I should start by learning a little magic from you, since you're right here and all and I have no idea where to find somebody who can teach me how to operate my magic sword instincts more usefully."

"Okay--the thing I'm best at is a healing spell that does bruises." 

"Thaaat sounds like an uncomfortable story but also a useful spell."

"You've got it pretty much exactly right! So--" she locates a bruise on her own body that's not too awkwardly located, on her calf, and pulls her pant leg up to demonstrate. "You circle the affected area with your finger--it can be any finger, but you have to use the same finger, for the next bit, which is--" 

She draws a fairly complicated pattern over the bruise, about a millimeter in the air above it. When she finishes, the bruise starts fading until her skin is unmarked. 

"I can draw the strokes for you on a piece of paper, you'll want to practice it before you try it free-hand." 

"...huh. Yeah that looks like I'd need to practice to get it right."

She goes over to her horse, who is now cropping grass by the side of the road with the two surviving horses of her abductors, rummages in her saddlebags, and pulls out a sheet of paper and a pack of brushes. 

She starts drawing strokes on the paper with a brush, not apparently needing any external source of ink. "It's important to do the bits in the right order, so I'm going to do them in different colors and label them with numbers." 

That's not how she's used to drawing working but that seems like a side issue to revisit later. She pays close attention to the drawing.

Every time she needs a different color, she pulls out a different brush, placing the old one back into its case. 

When she's finished, she hands the paper to April. All the ink is already dry. 

"Will something weird happen if I practice tracing all this stuff on the page?"

"Nope, that one won't do anything at all if it's not over skin. ...So, like, maybe don't put the paper against your leg, or anything, but it shouldn't do anything even then, if you don't demarcate a boundary, and even if it did do something, it probably wouldn't be bad? But, uh, better safe than sorry." 

"Sure, okay."

She sets the paper on the ground and traces it.

"And what happens if you do it on a part of you that's not bruised?"

"Prrrrrroobably nothing? But, like, doing a healing spell when you don't need the healing will be fine, like, uh, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, and then like nine times out of ten if it does do something unexpected it'll be positive, but one time in a thousand you'll accidentally give yourself cancer or a stroke or something? I'm pulling these numbers out of thin air, you understand." 

"Okay, good to know... Does it only do bruises or will it help with other stuff too?"

"This one in particular mostly does bruises but will also help with internal bleeding or a hematoma or whatever. Also I tried it on a sprain one time and it might have helped some but I'm not sure."  

"...huh, what about external bleeding then? If you have a cut or a scrape or something?"

"It doesn't do anything for a scrape or a shallow cut. I don't know about a deeper one." 

"Okay. ...what's, the, like... why does drawing things fix bruises? Or is that not a thing you know?"