![]() ![]() It wasn't enough her right side ached and her shoulder was throbbing terribly. It wasn't enough she was having her arm cut up. Lori glared at him, and he glared right back, though they were interrupted with another twinge of pain erupted from her arm. "Well, what did you think would happen when you sat down on a moving rock and became the highest thing on it? It's not exactly the most stable platform!" "Your authority is undisputed, I'm questioning your survival instincts!" "Are you questioning my authority?" she said threateningly, or at least as threateningly as she could on her back, one arm strapped down, and holding his hand. "Seriously, you have one job: don't die! How hard is that to do? Everyone else is managing it!" "Accident or not, we'd still have a dead Binder," he snapped right back. Maybe this'll keep you from trying to ride any more rocks." "Obviously," she hissed, needing to pull the lightningwisps from her arm again. "Your delusional optimism is amusing only up to a point." "You should have still tried," Rian said. "Considering she's a completely uneducated wild savant, the possibility of her teaching me anything is less than nothing." "Sometimes they need to learn more advanced principles first as well," Lori said. They don't know what they're doing until they've been properly educated and are taught the basics, and sometimes-" she hissed as sensation returned at an inopportune time, and cut off her line of thought to pull back the lightningwisps. "In addition to the fact she's another Binder, and has absolutely no reason to teach me anything, and several reasons not to, she's a savant. "Because the entire idea is nonsensical," Lori said. #ALCHEMISTRY DISSION TOO SLOW HOW TO#"You could really use knowing how to heal right around now." "You could have at least asked," he said. "Shanalorre," she corrected through gritted teeth. "Still think you shouldn't have asked to exchange pointers with Shana about how to do magic?" Rian said as she tried her best to break his hand solely with the grip of her left. Between that and Rian, her mind was quite occupied. If nothing else, the exercise gave her something to focus on, especially when she wasn't able to restrain a new surge of lightningwisps and feeling returned. The plate on the device that was restraining her arm was apparently there in case she made some kind of mistake doing exactly that, and was meant to draw the resultant lightning to the metal and into the ground and not, for example, the doctor holding the copper scalpel. Her connection to the core, however, mean that magic constantly caused the wisps in her body to replenish and equalize, so she had to constantly manipulate the wisps in her arm to maintain numbness, which meant that pain would occasionally break through. Her previous experience was that once your limb goes numb from you taking the lightningwisps there and moving them someplace else to use them-for example, for throwing lightning-it took some time for the lightningwisps to replenish and sensation to return. She wasted a lot of time finding out the difference.Įven when she managed it, it was surprisingly hard to maintain. The first painful lesson was that the ones that let her move her arm were distinct from the ones that let her feel her arm. It also revealed how little she actually knew about the interactions of lightningwisps and her body. Trying to manipulate the wisps in one's body after a painful surgical operation had begun was an agonizing experience Lori never wanted to repeat again. ![]()
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