She looks tired. Yawns her way up the stairs and goes to her tree straight off.

Leareth nods to her, but doesn't interrupt and lets her head off to rest. 

She emerges the next morning with her copied book. "Is there anyone who needs to be de-aged now? I could start working on picking this up."

"Excellent." That is such a happy Leareth! "I think no one at this base is especially in need of de-aging, but some of my researchers elsewhere are elderly. I can arrange for them to be Gated over." 

"Sure, let me know when." She starts planting her new seeds.

People are excited to drift up when they have a minute and watch what her new seeds are going to grow into! 

A day later, half a dozen grey-haired, wrinkly-skinned human mage-scholars arrive from other facilities. They're very excited to meet her and learn about her magic and how it can treat old age! Healers can't do that - mages can slow aging, but not reverse it. 

"Well, I've never done this before, but it doesn't look that hard. I will need to stare at whoever's going first for a while."

Someone will cheerfully volunteer to be stared at! Does Promise mind if she stares at her and her garden with mage-sight at the same time? 

"Go right ahead." Stare stare stare.

Is there anything much for mage-sight to pick up on while all she's doing is staring? 

Nope. She is herself slightly magically interesting (so is her tree) but the staring is just staring.

Well, the mage will keep looking as long as she and her garden are interesting, and then take out a book and start reading, making notes in the margin. 

Sapphire eventually comes up and asks if she wants supper, and also if the Healers can come watch the sorcery once she's ready.

She does want supper, and then she thinks she's all set to try! "I have never done this before and in particular do not have much experience with how the whole being a child thing works," she tells her subject, "so it's possible I'll mistarget, what age do you want me to aim for?"

"Hmm. Thirty? I think that was my favourite age, and if you go too young by accident I won't come out as a teenager." 

"I'll do my best. Do you have a mirror? I can try to go slow."

A somewhat warped hand mirror can be found and brought in. 

And slowly the mage becomes less old.

The woman oohs and aahs as she watches herself in the mirror. The Healers watch, transfixed. What does it look like to Healing-Sight, if anything? 

It looks like the healing she does normally only on a much smaller scale!

Huh. Wow. Can Sapphire get her Sight to go in closer and closer, and see any better what's going on? 

That is between Sapphire and her Sight.

"I should be able to do with less staring time going forward now that I've tried the technique."

(Sapphire can't get in close enough to have a hope of replicating it, but she's going to keep trying!) 

The other elderly mages are pleased about the faster progress, not that they would have begrudged all the staring, it's such a cheap price for getting to not be old anymore. 

She looks at the remaining subjects and asks them for target ages and one at a time, each holding a mirror while she goes nice and slow, de-ages them all.

Leareth comes up to watch the last few, and is so impressed. 

"There."