An adventuring party recruited from Osirion teleports into Azir on the 8th of Desnus. Rahadoum's recruiting contact in Osirion wrote ahead to note they were expected. Couple of guys he's known a long time - a wizard, a ranger - and a new guy, sorcerer, probably to replace the cleric they usually travel with. They spend two days in Azir getting oriented and head out to the front. The ranger wears an unusually high quality amulet of Nondetection; the sorcerer wears a headband for intelligence, which is a bit unusual as sorcerers usually don't need it to cast, but some variants do; they are otherwise unremarkable. Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, no reading, which could mean neutral or 'hiding it'. They work quickly and effectively, manage resources reasonably well, get recommended to higher-ups for a closer look on that account.
There is, indeed, something comprehensively different even at a glance, more about the bodies's energies than any of its specific components, all of which are still there and apparently in perfect health.
"That's really interesting! Your life-force is - brighter? Or - that's not even quite it, it's partly that and partly something else I can't describe, but the something else is a lot." She makes a face. "I'm tempted to ask you if you wouldn't mind both of us, er, giving ourselves minor injuries so I can see if that looks different, but I probably shouldn't ask that of you."
"That seems fine. I'm trying to be more cautious here since your gods don't know what to do with their dead but I wouldn't mind, say, a minor cut or burn or something."
Then they can try getting identical minor cuts while Shavri watches! (She can then immediately Heal them both, it's not even hard for this level of injury.)
Well, for one thing cutting him an identical amount is harder, his skin is more elastic and takes more force to actually cut at all, and then the cut is shallower, but if you're willing to put in a lot more force you can get an identical minor cut.
That in itself is incredibly interesting! Shavri supposes that 'harder to injure' would need to have a mechanism of some sort which would be physically noticeable.
Once it's identical to her normal eyes, is it also identical to Healing-Sight or are there differences there too?
Shavri will watch that for a minute, then, if Fazil doesn't mind, trying to judge how much faster it is.
Huh! She goes ahead and Heals it before doing her own. "That's really neat. Thank you for letting me test that."
"Sure." And he's happy to compare notes on Healing for the rest of the day though he will be inexplicably on edge whenever there's no one else around.
Shavri isn't sure what's going on with him but she does notice, and asks Andrel in private Mindspeech if he can hang out nearby and work on his own things whenever possible, and then says the same to Gemma when her shift starts.
Then he would be delighted to spend the whole day on Healing experiments! The Valdemaran Healers have so much information, it's incredible.
It's one of the best things about Healing-Sight! There are quite a lot of textbooks and treatises on Healing, with carefully-drawn pictures of what their Sight (and, sometimes, animal or cadaver dissections) have shown about various disease and natural healing processes. Maybe Healers' should have all of them copied so that some can be sent over to Golarion whenever there's a chance?
Savil has dinner in her quarters with Vanyel and the Tayledras visitors that night; Fazil is welcome to come if he'd like.
:Vanyel says you should feel free not to if you've had enough of people for today and just want a quiet evening: Yfandes informs him privately. :He spent the afternoon catching up on all the heavy lifting mage-work they saved up for him so he wants company but you don't have to join unless you actually want to:
(Vanyel, an introvert, is particularly alert to when someone might feel Obligated to attend a social occasion they would prefer to skip.)
:I don't mind people.: He minds being left alone with the King's concubine and he minds having no idea what the rules are but the people all seem lovely.
He will come to dinner.
Savil is reminiscing with Starwind about all the dangerous and entertaining adventures she had as a young woman - at the time, she was the strongest mage in the entire Kingdom and corresponding thrown at all of its worst emergencies.
He can appreciate stories about dangerous and entertaining adventures! Heralds are really a lot like a paladin order except for the utter bizarreness of them not knowing who their god is.
Savil has a really good story about how she met Starwind! It was when she was pursuing an obnoxious criminal mage, er, technically outside of Valdemar's borders, and Starwind, age eighteen, had also been on said mage's trail and had - perhaps - been overconfident about what he could handle alone. And had gotten himself badly burned by mage-lightning.
Savil moves on to embarrassing stories about Vanyel's various escapades early on in his Herald-hood, including his first mission where he 1) fought twenty bandits singlehanded and rescued a lot of kidnapped children, and 2) managed to make his focus-stone explode by channeling too much power through it.