"Most people do", he says with a crooked grin. "Though I can only fix injury. Sickness would be harder and old age, nothing doing."
"I still have to work within nature", he agrees. "What nature does, I can't undo, at best I can change how it does it."
"A few years now. I was about... ten, give or take."
And still dead, but he doesn't want to freak her out.
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"Most people do", he says with a crooked grin. "Though I can only fix injury. Sickness would be harder and old age, nothing doing."
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"I still have to work within nature", he agrees. "What nature does, I can't undo, at best I can change how it does it."
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"How long have you been doing that?"
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"A few years now. I was about... ten, give or take."
And still dead, but he doesn't want to freak her out.