"Yes, that's fine. In that case, I'll ask for a Teleport wizard to come to the fort to pick you and some other people up. They will most likely arrive tomorrow morning."

"Alright! I'm very excited. I've never teleported before. Though I have Plane Shifted — oh good, you have a phrase for that."

She thought he was a druid from how he described the origin of his magic, but druids don't get Plane Shift. Not that she's an expert on druids. Maybe there are druid circles that can do that.

"I'll update you with more details after I cast Sending."

She will Look at Conrad and Damian to signal them to take over.

"One of the patrols ought to be arriving now. Would you mind healing them too?"

"I would not," he says, smiling.

They are going to exit the Chosen's office now.

The patrol has indeed arrived! They look uninjured.

He's still going to offer.

"Anyone who needs healing, please take my hand. It takes a minute to a few minutes, so please go one at a time. The person with the most severe injuries first. I can do two at a time." It's good training for his exertion of Carnation powers to do healing on multiple bodies at once.

They will form lines! The two closest hold his hands.

They have some minor bruises and scrapes but nothing major.

"Aside from the longer casting time, is it really the case that your healing doesn't have any limits?"

Derek will reply since putting his tendrils into the two Chelish people doesn't require thought, though once he's done so he will need to actually think to do the healing.

"If I suddenly stop talking, that means I'm focusing on the healing.

It totally has limits! I can run out of, hm, I call it energy but I don't know if that's the best term. But I have a whole lot of it and I've never run out unless I'm deliberately trying to or trying to do something really big. Healing people generates energy for me, actually, so it's self-sustaining.

Oh, and I have a lot of trouble with brains."

What an odd set of constraints. Healing people makes him more able to heal people????

He wants to ask more questions about that but he feels like it could be annoying, given that he's casting, so he refrains from doing so.

Derek will heal the wounds of the soldiers scarlessly, but besides that, he will also relieve tired muscles, aching joints, cold-stiffened limbs, etc.

A lot of these people have the thing with humans here where it's unusually difficult to restore their flesh and he has to put in more energy to do it. He still doesn't know what's up with that but he doesn't really know how to ask about it to the other people here.

One of them is missing a toe.

"Do you want me to regrow your missing toe?"

WOW that feels great, did he hit them with a Restoration or something?

Toeless guy looks at Conrad and Damian. What does he say.

Damian will ask Derek, "The Regeneration, is it also only limited by the energy you speak of? Which is abundant?"

"Yes! It's free! In the sense that I am charging nothing from it and nothing material is alienated from you in its casting."

That phrasing is SO OMINOUS but clearly the correct answer here is yes so he is going to answer yes.

Wow, this guy's fear responses are really acting up. Does he have social anxiety? Sorry socially anxious Worldwound soldier!!

He will wordlessly restore the guy's toe.

He will thank Derek.

Soon everyone has been healed.

Wow. Unlimited Regenerate. Yes, it takes minutes to cast, but still. He wants to be able to cast an unlimited number of spells a day.

"Okay, great, that's everyone.

It's been several hours. When do you guys eat?"

"Dinner should be in an hour. Or, well, we call it that, even though the sun doesn't set at this time of year."

"Yes! I've never been far enough north or south to experience a white night.

Is it fine if I cook for the fort? Are you fine with eating a lot of meat? I can create most any meat — it is part of my powers.

The cold weather is making me want to eat shabu-shabu. That's um, very thinly sliced meat that you quickly cook in broth. Typically with vegetables, but I don't have any vegetables right now. Do you have a fire or a stove?"

Yes he would like a reprieve from Worldwound rations.

"That would be lovely. I've never had that before, but I'm interested to try it."

Then, to Conrad, "Go tell the people on kitchen duty."

Conrad goes to tell the people on kitchen duty.