"...I don't like talking about it." She huffs, though, and gestures at the flower growing out of her eye. "This fucking thing's part of it."

"More of a symptom than a cause, I assume."

"Not really. The flower's its physical form. ...Kind of. It's complicated. The flower sprouted after the last time I died."

"How many times have you died?"

Uncomfortable shrug. "First time was before this damn thing crawled into my body. Dunno how long I was dead, but it brought me back. I've died like, two times since. Last one was thanks to a fucking dragon blowing off my arm."

"Quite unusual. Hold still a moment."

"Eyes of Heaven with Sight Beyond Sight." Eliese's eyes flash purple with mystic power, and she turns her gaze on Zero and her parasite.

Zero's not too happy about the scrutiny; Eliese isn't exactly getting the sense that she's a private person, though, more that she's been burned a lot in the past. 

The flower in her eye has roots throughout her body, wrapping especially around and through vital organs - and many of its roots terminate in something beyond sight. It's immensely magical, far moreso than Zero. Possibly, actually, the source of Zero's magic - other than the evil flower infection, she looks like a normal human. Not even a dead human - though her lungs are thoroughly fucked, and it looks like the flower's taken their place, and what's left of her own lungs are badly scarred. She has deep marks like lashes on her back, too, though her skin is unbroken and perfectly smooth.

She shakes her head once and cancels the spell.

"You'll need new lungs, at the very least."

"Explains all the blood I was coughing up the first time," she says, only somewhat sarcastically. 

"It would."

"Unfortunately, I do not think any of my arsenal suitable for attacking this problem as it stands."

"You said you can develop things."

"I did, and I can. But it will take time."

"How much?"

"A few days. Perhaps a week."

Thoughtful frown. "...How sure are you that it'll work?"

"I am very good at killing things. Even- perhaps especially- magical things. What I am more concerned about is limiting the collateral damage. If I wanted to vaporize the parasite, and you, and everything else including the terrain in a five mile radius, I could do that today. Perhaps tomorrow morning if I wished to be excessively certain of my own survival."

"...I still care that it dies more than anything."

"But I suppose a week isn't that much more of a delay."

"It is not, as these things go."

"It'll get stronger over time. But it's already been growing for years."

"Just try to avoid dying again in the meantime."

"My sisters haven't come after me since last time. They'll probably leave me alone until I start attacking them again."

"Very considerate of them."

"Their mistake."

"Always appreciate when your enemy makes a mistake."

"They've made a lot, though more would be better."