"Ah, yes, that. It's pretty, isn't it?"

"It was, I sort of wanted to climb it and bury my face in the petals like a crazy person. It looked very soft."

He giggles. "It is. But I can't recommend falling off."

"No, I haven't sat down to figure out a really thorough always-active regeneration and anti-harm spell yet, so I'm being extra careful about things that could kill me until I figure it out."

"That sounds like the kind of thing it would be very good to have," he says, looking down at her.

"Yeah, kind of, I've got a thorough healing down, it even handles broken bones competently, it's just - it's not the kind of thing that I want to always have active, it makes doing other magic kind of difficult, I need to make it more efficient and utilitarian. Magically speaking."

"I wish you the best of luck."

"Thanks. Honestly being here will probably give me time space and incentive to get to doing that, I uh. Have kind of procrastinated on it a little?"

"This place does leave you with plenty of free time," he says wryly.

Snort.

... She peers at him, and looks like she might be about to say something, and then hesitates.

"Mm?"

"Um. Okay so actually the major thing that was holding me up for making a permanent regeneration was that I kind of have trouble self harming. It's important that I test out all of the ways I could be hurt so I don't set up the regeneration spell incorrectly. I'm perfectly competent with knives but 'knives' do not make up the entirety of the things that could hurt me?"

"Are you asking me to help you with that?" he says, looking down at her again with that look on his face.

"I mean you did sort of torture people, I assume that you'd be good at injuring me without actually risking my life? So um. Yes?"

"Well - I used to torture people when I was human. I haven't done much of it with the new strength. But I can be careful, I think."

"Okay. If you're very sure that you can do it without killing me or causing me to lose consciousness, that would be, um. Great."

He smiles. "Great, hmm?"

She's blushing again.

"I, er." Navethae inspects her nails and squirms, a little. "Yes."

Tarakova laughs.

"I mean also it's kind of important for me to get a functional regeneration so I can just be immortal, but, um. I also liked Nimire. The book, not just the character."

"Well, then. I think I can help you."

Shy nod. Not an unwilling one, but - this subject makes her feel very small and vulnerable. Sort of fitting, considering the size difference.

It's a nice look on her.

"What do you want me to do to you?"

"T-the section on broken bones works well, it will set whatever's broken with perfect competency, but I haven't had the chance to whittle it down to something easier to work around. Ideally I want to get this entire thing to the point where it's as efficient as my memory spell."

"Anything in particular you'd like broken?"