Headshake headshake.

But it wasn't anyone trying to harm me, either.

"So it's not really a trade or a curse, I suppose, but I'm not sure what to call it. A... sacrifice. Which I will try to get back for you."

A sacrifice!  I like it.  Do you think that if I try to help get it back myself, this will make things more easy or hard for you?

"If I were really close to figuring it out, something changing might make it harder, but I'm not, so by all means work on it in parallel."

Nodnod!  She reaches towards her well, still technically Zoyah's - harp?

He releases her hand. "Shall I go?"

Headshake headshake headshake?

I want to know if you'll see something interesting if you touch me while I play?

"Oh, okay. I'm not sure how much range of motion you need to play?"

It would be good if I could use both hands, although I could make do with one if you really can't touch me anywhere else.

"...I could put my hand on your forehead as though I were checking for fever?"

She nods while trying to brush the short parts of her hair out of the way.

Hand on forehead.

Aaaaand music!  She will, hm, what if she examines his properties a bit.

If she has the hang of examining things for their properties he sure has some!

He sure does!  There's the thing where he died - it's not doing anything, anymore; she fixed it and he's running fine on his own.  She might not have found it if she didn't know to look.  And there's all his flesh and bones and things, doing the things that human ones of those do, and there's......hm.  What is that.

You have magic on you?

"- oh! Yes, I have a charm, I was born with it, sometimes that happens. The cook's got a charmed nose. I've got a charmed mind."

What does it do?

"It's harder to quantify a charmed mind than a charmed nose, because even people without charms can be smarter than other people. Most of what I think it's doing that is definitely unusual is that I don't misremember things. I can forget them outright but I never think they were some way that they actually weren't."

Hmmmmm.  She's going to play at it some more, try and figure it out.

Oh!  This is why I couldn't make you calm even though it worked on everyone else after!

"Couldn't... what?"

Before you died.  I made you be less dead and then you were moving around a lot and it made it hard to move you, so I tried to calm you and it didn't work.  But then you did it on your own.

"I don't remember the incident very clearly. I can see why you'd want to do something like that when you were trying to rescue drowning people. You should... not... go around affecting anybody's mind in any way with magic in any situation less clear than that where the person you're affecting isn't the same person you're helping, or the stakes aren't life and death. In case that was not obvious."

I did it to some people after you while you were dead, because I did not want taking them to somewhere more safe to take so long that I could not make you not dead.  This was a little bit like using it to save them because I may have left them to try and not die instead of moving them first while you were dead, if I could not have done this?

"Yeah they were still part of the - batch of people you were helping? But if you're... breaking up a one-sided fight, say, it would be better to solve that in some way that doesn't involve mind control, if you have anything else you could pull out there."

Why is this?