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Being alone in the desert like this sucks.
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"I wouldn't know," comments the blue-haired shren.
powerispain
"I'm thinking aloud. Um, is there any risk that interrupting the pain would make it worse when it comes back?"
"Nothing inherent, but I wouldn't know whether your magic would invite some kind of rebound effect."
powerispain
"No, there are a couple things that hurt the target as well as the caster, but anesthesia isn't one of them."
"Then if you would like to try it I can get you a five-year-old."
The blue-haired shren motions her in and sits her down in an office and goes and reappears with a shiny black hatchling squirming in her arms.
powerispain
And Odette reaches out with Sympathy--oh. That...is quite a lot of pain. In a child. Her heart clenches, and she reaches out and...ebbs it off, quickly, but not as instantly as throwing a switch.
Ow. But.
"Masochism's holding just fine," she reports.
Ow. But.
"Masochism's holding just fine," she reports.
"Well, if you want to be offered progressively older babies for a while..."
(The baby is very excited. It escapes Jensal's arms and climbs on her shoulders and down her back and runs in circles.)
(The baby is very excited. It escapes Jensal's arms and climbs on her shoulders and down her back and runs in circles.)
powerispain
"Until I know if I can teach you magic it's probably the best I can do and letting children be in pain when I can stop it isn't okay."
"You can come to the babies' room if you like," says the blue-haired shren, deftly catching the baby by the tail and scooping it up again.
The babies' room is filled with screaming. The blue-haired shren puts the shiny black one down and picks up a matte red.
The babies' room is filled with screaming. The blue-haired shren puts the shiny black one down and picks up a matte red.
The blue-haired shren seems to know which ones are how old; she might be figuring it out by size or just from knowing the kids. She indicates a sparkly blue one.
powerispain
She picks up that one's pain too. "Starting to get a little uncomfortable."
There's plenty of babies. White sparkly?
powerispain
Sure. Actually...
She makes a noise and sits down abruptly, gritting her teeth. "I decided it would save time to do them all at once."
She makes a noise and sits down abruptly, gritting her teeth. "I decided it would save time to do them all at once."
"There's a reason I was stepping you up gradually," says the blue-haired shren.
powerispain
"I'm okay," she says, wincing. "...I am more okay than not doing this would be okay."
(The babies are so excited, gamboling around and chattering to each other.)
"There's three other houses," the blue-haired shren says. "What's your range?"
"There's three other houses," the blue-haired shren says. "What's your range?"
"They're farther away than that, but we could shuffle them around, it might be more efficient to concentrate you on a few older ones."
"How many this old," she picks up the third-eldest, "and up could you do?"
powerispain
"Um." She bites her lip and shudders a little. "Not sure. Ten? I'd have to try it."
"That'd cover all the babies that age who haven't learned to shift yet, we could start tapering them down on the painkillers - I'll make some calls - we'll need a tank if we get the ones from the violet group house -" She departs the room.
The babies swarm over Odette enthusiastically.
The babies swarm over Odette enthusiastically.