It’s time to make a little speech about magic, precisely, healing one.
Magic in name only, when used, it exclusively speeds up natural processes, according to the proficiency of the user, total amount of mana, and of course, the receiver's basic capacity to heal.
It works great for flesh wounds, and for blood loss recovery if you know a little and how to activate the marrow.
With better medical understanding, you can repair bone, organ, and even perform magical surgery if you are experienced enough.
Even so, your understanding of the human body doesn’t matter at some point. All of the process requires energy from the receiver. Mana is only useful to start and maintain the whole. At some point, even if you can heal a lesion almost instantly, it’s better not to, as to not burden the patient’s body too much.
When you are a good mage on the other hand, you can make use of the user’s mana to convert it to energies and use it instead.
That’s what most clerics do.
They know little about medicine, but they are generally speaking, much more proficient at handling mana. IN the end, the best is still to have both, or someone who can do both.
But such persone are rare and priceless. How many years do you need to study the body to be a good doctor? how many, so you can use mana at will?
In most cases, Priests or clerics will focus on light wounds ( omitting their other task ) while what we can healer will take care of major injury and emergency treatment. Depending on the situation, of course, they can also assert their value in other circumstances.
Like looking after poison, dealing with afterfight first aid, supporting the other in combat or even taking care of his teammate's illness and ensuring they’re in their best shape.
As for Lily... Well, Lily is… controversial.
She’s a genius, an absolute genius, she’s well served in both medical and magical fields. Knowing most current knowledge and even some theories still under study, she is moreover a good fighter, knows how to cook sweets, and has noble lady manners (even if she doesn’t make use of them).
On the other hand… she has utterly zero practical experience, no common sense, and she doesn’t know how to take care of herself.
On the adventure side, she knows how to do her job right, even more for some aspects but at the expense of your own workload. She has never traveled by foot, survived or lived in unfriendly land and she is utterly useless when it comes to preserving and ensuring her own or other’s life.
That make her a raw gem, she could become la crème de la crème.
At the same time, she was a danger to anyone who goes near her, enemy and ally alike. I have already been able to experience it twice. Her changes of mood were deadly and sometimes she behaved like a child.
Lucky, the first time we only got idiots, and a lost cause who had Lily stumbled upon him, yet, was unable to handle the pressure and lost his means, the second… idiots again, trolls were really dumb creatures. So they didn’t pose much of a threat either.
But this time it’s been different. Even if I was carving the opposite…
“Don’t leave me behind. If you do, I won’t die! I know how to fight, I know how to heal, and even if I’m clumsy and useless, I can totally go out the forest alive and report you. So take me along! I won’t make a fuss, I just want to stick together with the hero! No matter what happens!”
Yup, she superbly failed to refrain from opening her mouth once again. Dashing my strategies by the same occasion.
Let's look back in time…
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“Quick! -gasp-” Lily spoke in total haste, she was sweating profusely. I could feel her skin burning under my hand. Yet, her back was freezing cold, drenched.
“Don't worry Lily, I’m on it!”
“Oh my god…It hurts…I gh!! I have never felt so bad… uhh, I don’t think I’m gonna make it…” She was gritting her teeth and started to convulse. Her breath was short and cramped.
“Hold on! Just a little more! We'll get there soon, I promise. And I always keep my promises!”
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Where… where is the nearest suitable location. Here! Just a little longer Lily
“Its’ coming…” She had a violent spasm. Her heart stopped and She was no longer breathing.
“Stay with me lily!” FUCK IT, EMERGENCY!
“I can’t… anymore...” all her muscles relaxed at the same time, almost making me let her go. Her hand which until then prevented the precious liquid from flowing out the body. Fall off.
“LILY!”
Desperate times call for desperate measures! Too bad, I will need to take care of the damage later on!
“NOW!” Well, at this point it was all pointless, she already couldn't hear me anymore. She no longer controlled her body. And her eyes were soulless. That was more for me to prepare my mind than alerting her.
… Maybe we should go back a bit further, shall we…
Long after the sunrise, following an almost all-nighter for my part, I was woken up in an emergency, well yes, I decently couldn’t sleep instead of standing guard, even if I had a light one. When Lily was in this state, that would be taking unnecessary risks.
Usually, I take multiple naps while staying on alert instead of full nights, but this time I couldn’t afford it even for a moment. Of course, Lily knows none of it.
It didn't even cross her mind that guard was something necessary. But I didn’t want to bother her so I never broached the subject.
Who was concealing important data to his teammate now? Still, that should not have been a problem, not yet. I was used to having little to no sleep at all.
When you live a life of pleasure the night, and of a hero the day, you don’t often have the time to rest. And I did sleep in fact, at the least dangerous times, before the sunset, and at the end, after the sunrise. I got a few hours, enough to pass the day.
In short, one or two hours after I allowed myself a short break, I was awakened by Lily’s impatient and incessant pinching. She seemed nervous. Enemies!!? I sat up straight, promptly, and looked at our surrounding ear wide open. Awakening my senses and sore muscles by the time I had finished my inspection.
Nothing. I briefly gave Lily a stare. She was nervous but not in immediate danger. I could distinguish a mixture of fear and shame.
Was she in pain? Did her injuries worsen over the night? I paid attention to her leg, they were shivering but nothing more, seems OK. Her chest? Did she lie about broken rib? Still nothing, I couldn’t notice anything abnormal. That was not it either.
“Are you awake??” Her shaking voice asked me this as if the opposite would have been her demise. Did she have bad news she didn’t want to tell me yesterday? Or something else?
“Yes? Do you need something?” My questioning look fell on her and I could enjoy the view from close up. Damn it, with all of those events, I had forgotten her half naked state to which her illegal cuteness was added, giving me a deadly blow and almost making me lose my composure.
“...e” Now she was blushing. Well, not really, she was already all red. She was downright turning crimson, my heavy meaning look may have been an effective counter-attack seemingly.
“Uh? Sorry, can you repeat it louder?”
“I need to pee!”
“And?” What does this have to do with me… Ohhhh!
“Do I really need to go into details?”
“No no!, sorry, it hadn't occurred to me yet. Why didn’t you wake me sooner?”
“I DID! It’s been several minutes. I pinch you, poke you, and do everything I can in my state! I even shouted until it hurt!”
Light sleep uh? What a joke, I was really tired it seems. Fortunately, it didn't attract anything. Another monster attack would put us in much greater trouble.
“My bad my bad, so what do you want? Should I help you stand and walk on one leg? Can you? Do you need protection against peeping?” Her criticisms and bad temper cooled my mind and finished waking me up completely.
“What peeping! As if you would find any that deep in a for–.” Apparently the joke was not to her liking and Lily started shouting with an angry voice, before soon stopping in the middle of the sentence, with a strange face.
“Anyway. I can’t walk so you’ll have to carry me.” she continued.
“Okay, let me just stretch myself and I’ll take you to a place where you will be comfortable. Where do you want to be seated? Will a rock do? Maybe a bit too hard. A fallen tree trunk? You might get a splinter. If you can’t w--”
“No! This will be unnecessary!”
“Go on! It was for your own good after all.” Does she want to show me she’s not made from crystal again? That she can endure the pain and crude reality of adventuring?
“Not in this sense. I mean, the problem is… you know, I didn’t want to wake you up at first, so I already waited to the limit before trying,iIt's even starting to hurt.”
“Yes?” What's wrong with her this morning? I can’t follow her thoughts at a— “I’m already leaking!! Just carry me somewhere and hold me upward, upfront! The moment I’ll spread my thigh I… Je ne vais pas te faire un dessin! Can’t you stop speaking? Hurry up!!!”
Oh!! I was wondering why she was in that unconformable position, legs tighten, clump together, and her hand pressing hard on her crotch… wait! WAIT!
“WAIT WAIT!! I’m not ready yet!”
“If you’re not, I’m gonna dump it all here and now!”
“OK! OK! Hold tight! I’ll pick you up!”
“Wait! Help me remove my panties first!! I can’t do it on my own!”
Yes, well, at least she stays lucid. This was not my case. I did as she said while being elsewhere. Like a golem who executes its order, I striped her lower underwear, very pretty by the way, it suited her well. Then I…
Wait a minute!! Your hands are not just pins down against the entrance… or exit, call it whatever you want. It clearly goes inside! Did you have to block the way physically?!! Are you that desperate?!
“DON’T STARE!! YOU PERVERT!”
Not without benefiting another glance, I lifted her quickly, paying attention to her bladder and her injuries.
“Mhhh!” Moan, Some drops of liquid fell on the ground.