It isn't late at night, but it is late in the year, and the sun went about its business quickly ere it departed.
Jacqueline Somer walks beside a busy road, with her back to oncoming traffic, which she's read you aren't supposed to do but it makes the stupid LED headlights somewhat less unbearable.
She flinches every time a car passes her.
Cars are loud, and she has enhanced hearing.
She'd be much happier, she thinks, in a world without automobiles.
"Could we test your healing power before we might need to rely on it? Sometimes these things are finicky, it could have worked earlier and not work for us now."
"Umm..Alright."
Seren takes the dagger of her belt and hesitates for a second before sliding it across her hand. She holds up the hand showing the dripping blood and after a moments concentration her hand begins to glow a soft white and the wound knits itself closed.
Hands are pretty useful.
Next time, maybe the back of your arm would work better?
At least nothing went wrong.
"If you use your self-targeted durability powers inside your wagon, I'll wait outside at a safe distance, and you can call for me - I'll hear it."
"Uhh.. Alright thanks! Call out when you're a safe distance away."
Ugh.
Alright, she'll make some distance (and take some cover), stick her fingers in her ears, and shout:
"READY!"
She wishes she could conduct all of her conversations with her fingers in her ears and through a closed door.
She'll walk to the cart and let herself inside.
What does she see?
Hovering next to Seren is a disk of light. roughly one foot in radius. She seems to be moving it around.
"So, I think it's some sort of barrier?"
It looks so cool.
"If you take it outside I can throw rocks at it."
So, she's going to be sensible about this.
First, she's going to toss a stone gently at the center of the disk of light, while standing off to the side.
What happens?
The stone lightly bounces off the center of the shield and it flickers out of existence.
"O..Oh... I can still feel it there, but as if it's further away? 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10."
She counts approximately in line with a second.
"So, by... 10 minutes about? I'll be able to reach it again."
She was so ready to whale on the weird glowing disk of light.
You can't dangle that in front of her and snatch it away, that's just cruel.
It would be satisfying, after the power has had its ten minutes to cool down, to hit it as hard as she could.
It would not be prudent.
But if she scales up the force applied gradually, with a ten minute wait each time, this could take a while.
"Let's test the second one. I'll wait outside."
She'll walk back into her wagon. After a second she'll walk out.
"So, um, I couldn't cast it. When I tried I got the sense that nothing was... dying near me. So it targets someone who is actively dying? I'm not sure what qualifies as "dying" versus very injured?"
"Alright, lets do the last one then?"
Seren turns around and re-enters the wagon.
After a moment she exits again.
"So, I'm not sure exactly what it did... I want to say I feel more... protected but that could also just be me expecting some weird feeling. I know that it targeted myself."
"Alright."
She'll grab a rock of the ground and swing it at her arm.
"Huh."
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