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[levelshift]

The what trap?

[He never saw the movies, okay.]

[infirmiere]

Nightmare torture trap, two people strapped to chairs back to back with a drill coming toward both of them. It was super

[levelshift]

Okay, first, that's fucked up and I'm not sure what the point of that would be aside from giving someone lifelong trauma. Second, what the hell does that have to do with saws?

[infirmiere]

There's a movie franchise called Saw where people get put through similar traps. I've never seen them

It was fucked up though, you're right

[levelshift]

That's a shitty premise for a bunch of movies.

Did you have to go through it?

[infirmiere]

Yeah

Ben took the drill, I healed him after but it doesn't really make it less horrific.

[levelshift]

I can imagine. It's shitty you had to go through that [He's tortured people before, he knows how horrific it can get.]

Is there a limit to your healing? Can you heal yourself?

[infirmiere]

If there is still functional life in a body I can heal it — brain function, breath, a heartbeat, something like that and maybe a bit after

Can't heal a corpse from being dead but I can make them aesthetically look better

But no, not myself

[levelshift]

I see. And is it magic you're using? Or something else?

[infirmiere]

Presumably

I've been able to do it since I was young and back then everything out of the ordinary was considered magic

[levelshift]

What's the actual process you use? Is there some kind of foundation to it, like how natural phenomena follows scientific laws?

[This nerd, asking about magic instead of talking about dying.]

[infirmiere]

The foundation is water. I can touch a person and feel where they're hurt and then fix it, so long as I have some water on me.

[ and when she doesn't because guess what the human body is made out of :) she tries not to use herself as a source though, as a general rule. sylvie gets stroppy about it. ]

[levelshift]

That's it? Are you attaching any cultural or religious significance to it to make the whole process more efficient?

[infirmiere]

No?

It's pretty efficient as is

I'll be honest, you are putting way more thought into this than I have ever done

[levelshift]

Seriously? I've only known about magic for a few months but it can't be that weird to be questioning how a power like that works.

And don't give me any mysterious "it just works because it does" nonsense. That's bullshit.

[infirmiere]

I've had this power since I was a little girl, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. They were considered gifts and they weren't questioned back then and I haven't bothered to since

[ she really hasn't! she suffers from a deplorable lack of curiosity. willa doesn't even know if her power is actually some kind of hydrokinesis or some kind of healing or both! ]

Unrelated, have you met Riz Gukgak? I think you two would get along well

[levelshift]

You've never questioned them even once?

[What the hell, Willa?????? This is going to drive him nuts. She is going to drive him nuts.]

What the fuck, that's an incredible way to limit yourself.

Yeah, I have. I met him in detention. He was part of this curfew break a bunch of kids organized in Moorcroft.

[infirmiere]

Sorry, buddy

[ she's not shocked they were both involved with rule breaking. or that they met in detention, adorable. ]

[levelshift]

[A couple of delinquents, these kids.

He clicks his tongue at being called 'buddy.']

Well, now that we're talking about it are you at all curious?

[infirmiere]

[ no ]

Sure

But how am I to know?

[levelshift]

You could run some tests. It's not like there's much else to do in between missions.

[infirmiere]

Okay.

How?

[levelshift]

You'd want to create some proper hypotheses first, that'll allow you to come up with the right variables that can be tested. Since we're talking about healing they'll be biological, like amount of blood or speed of cellular division. Then once you have the variables, you just need to come up with ways to change your independent variable, measure the impact of that change on your dependent variable, and make sure the experiment can be run consistently a few times.

After all of that it wouldn't be hard to analyze the resulting data, adjust your hypotheses, and re-run any experiments as necessary.

[Did he just describe the scientific method? Yes.]

[infirmiere]

Hm

I will be honest

That sounds so boring I could cry

[levelshift]

[He's rolling his eyes so hard, because he's a big nerd who thinks it'd be interesting.]

Maybe you can ask around and see if someone knows a magical equivalent of the scientific method. Or some way that's less boring.