Liliana - "Healing"

Suddenly Liliana realized what an unfeeling excuse for a human being she was. “Stop talking,” she urged the servant. “Here, let me help you.” Liliana grasped Karina’s bleeding hand in hers, pulling mana from the blood and willing that energy up to the woman’s neck and throat. It seemed to soothe the burn.

Well, look at that. I’m good for something.

Karina’s eyes went wide. “You’re a healer, milady?”

A healer. Please. Though I studied to be a healer once…less than a hundred yards from here, more than a hundred years from here…

“Something like that,” Liliana responded. Of course, all she had done was redirect the woman’s own life force to address the more significant source of pain. It was a zero-sum game.

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War of the Spark: Forsaken, Chapter 28