After a round of gratutions from the group for her success at learning how to use her humanoid form, Niphru sat down in a chair to join them. Their versation remained fairly light, mostly focused on what they had been doing for the past few days, though there was a bit of discussion of magic, as well.

  As their meeting progressed, Niphru had to admit to not spending much time w on magic due to spending most of it focused on adjusting to the humanoid form. Fortunately, the others in the group didn’t think less of her for it, which she had been worried about.

  Toward the end of their versation, Niphru remarked, “I want to see if I manage a few more humanoid bodies, so I want to try healing people so I focus on the differences.”

  Most of the group agreed with the idea, though they alsht up that her existing illusions could instead cover the role of appearing differently. The respoo this, however, was that using force magiitate hands was somewhat tiring, and used a fair amount of mana, so it was hard to do outside mana-rich areas.

  Following this, the group discussed their credit with the spire, and Niphru found that most of the group didn’t have nearly as much as himself and Dawn, only enough to go without w for around a month pared to their nearly a year’s worth. Talking with them about it, it appeared they ofte rge amounts on practice material and books.

  Both Dawn and Niphru found themselves feeling a bit odd sihey had barely doher, yet were still able to keep up with the rest of the group.

  When they asked about it, Viera replied, “You have to remember about affinity and natural talent. We were told you both had extreme talent with fire, plus Niphru has that foxfire on top of it. In fact, I suspect you’ve got higher affinity with fire than you let on, Dawn.”

  Seeing the worried look on Dawn’s face, Viera chuckled and tinued, “I guess that expression means I’m correbsp; I’m sure you have a reason for hiding it. Don’t worry, I’m sure none of us will say anything, right?” and looked at the rea of the rest of the group.

  In respoo Viera’s words, the rest of the group nodded, and Niphru could feel the relief Dawhrough their bond, even without fog on it.

  As their versation ed up, Niphru stood up, wobbling slightly, and then made her way to the stairs. While she found them much more plex than walking on ft ground, the handrail helped steady her as she proceeded to the request board.

  Unfortunately, there were no requests for healers, but the spires werely known for an abundance of healers to begin with, so it wasn’t too ued. Instead, she shook her head in disappoi and simply left the tower to head towards the Temple of the Green.

  In order to avoid questions along the way, she used an illusion to hide her inhumaures. It didn’t take long to arrive, and she entered, finding Farsan, the elder of the church, quite rapidly.

  Niphru approached and, upon gaining the man’s attention, remarked, “Hello, Farsan, it is o see you again. You probably don’t reize me, but I’m Niphru, the fox that you helped in the past.”

  In response, Farsan adopted an expression of surprise before stating, “Oh, I certainly didn’t expect to hear that, I thought you were someone else! Hello, Niphru. Was there anything you needed? And how is your panion doing?”

  She smiled before replying, “Dawn is doing well, thanks for asking. And I came here because I wao see if there was anyone who needed healing. I’ve learned how to transform, but I o uand what I’m doing, and I ried to remember the exact details of people I’ve healed. Because of that, I only turn into a slightly ged version of Dawn, so I wao study other people as well.”

  Farsan nodded before remarking, “We don’t do mu the way of healing here. There is actually a pce devoted to that nearby: a hospital where people do their best to aid the sid injured. You would have much better luck there. Sometimes, eople go over to help.”

  The man then gave Niphru instrus on how to reach the hospital before tinuing, “Typically, they deal with siess rather than injuries, but you shouldn’t have any problems with that, I don’t think?”

  Niphru shook her head before replying, “No, I should be able to help with that too. Thank you for the help, once again. I hope your day goes well.”

  “Likewise to you,” Farsan responded as Niphru turo leave.

  The walk to the hospital was also quite short, and Niphru found herself surprised by how busy the pce was. While it wasn’t a stant rush, there were a number of people waiting in chairs while a man moved between them with a clipboard and wrote down their problems.

  As she ehe man looked up and waved to ay chair, remarking, “Please sit down, I’ll be over to record your problem in a moment and we see when we get you some assistance.”

  Niphru immediately shook her head and remarked, “I’m actually a healer and wao voluo help out.”

  “Oh, well, that certainly isn’t a on situation!” the man excimed before tinuing in a more calm tone of voice, “Give me a moment, and I’ll see where you assist.”

  Nodding, Niphru decided to go ahead and take a seat as she waited for the man.

  Several mier, he walked over to the ter and dropped off the clipboard befoing through the door behind it. A few more minutes afterward, he returned and waved for her to follow him.

  In the room behind the ter, he picked up a knife and ha to her before asking, “Could you please prove you are a healer by making and healing a small cut?”

  After a moment of thought, Niphru realized the request made a lot of sense. After all, anyone could cim to be a healer without being one. In response, she took the knife and sterilized it. She then made a shallow cut along one hand, hahe knife back, and focused on healing the wound.

  Shortly afterward, she wiped the blood away, revealing undamaged skin.

  “Thank you. Now then, did you require anything for your services? I’m afraid we ’t give mu exge,” the man inquired as he ed the knife and put it back.

  Niphru shook her head and answered, “I’m actually wanting to study the body more. I never really paid attention to how it worked other than how to fix problems. So just being able to help people will help me iurn.”

  “Well, that is certainly an unethod of payment, to say the least!” the man excimed befesturing for her to follow him again.

  As they headed into the back, the man remarked, “It seems we are fortuo have you show up today; I was unaware, but we have a man who was injured during a stru project, and his outlook isn’t good without a healer. And naturally, this has to be the day our normal healer is taking time off.”

  He led her into a room, the unsan within bandaged up around the chest, blood staining the fabric.

  “He is the worst off among our patients; if you help him, we’d all be thankful,” the man from the front stated before shaking his head and tinuing, “If you , please help whoever you , the others are not too badly off. Just piy room you feel like after this one.”

  After seeing Niphru nod, the man turned ahe room, leaving her with the injured man.

  Niphru moved forward and began to s the man’s body with her magic, finding numerous internal wounds in addition tash on his torso. She was unsure if he would survive with that level of injury, just like the other man had said. Fortunately, she did have healing magid immediately began putting it to use.

  Sihe man only had injuries, she spent some time studying his body to see the differences between it and Dawn’s. She also he simirities, though she was surprised at how much of a differehere actually was.

  Having finished her iion, she left the room a into the one beside it, finding a woman lying on the bed, clearly having trouble breathing.

  Niphru quickly introduced herself, “Hello, I’m a healer; do you know what is wrong?”

  The woman shook her head as she responded, “I’m gd to hear a healer is here. I’m afraid I’m just really sibsp; I’m doing much better now after the horrible stuff they had me drink, but…”

  “Let’s see if we solve the problem then!” Niphru excimed as she moved toward the woman and began magically sing her.

  In the end, there appeared to be swollen areas deep in her chest, and Niphru worked t them back to normal. It was here, however, that she realized a small problem. She wasn’t actually good enough at healing to elimihe siess itself, and was using the only bit of foxfire she had avaible to keep up her illusion.

  Niphru was about to ask the woman if she could keep her appearance secret before she realized she could just leave the room for a moment and turn bato a fox.

  “Give me just a moment please, and then I’ll be back to finish up!” she excimed as she turo exit the room.

  Fortunately, no one was in the hall, so it was easy enough to switch back to fox form and put up an illusion to make it appear nothing had ged. After transf, he headed bato the room.

  “Okay, sorry about that. Now, please don’t be armed, but I have an odd way of healing that looks dangerous, but isn’t. I have these fires I trol that burly what I specify, leaving everything else alone. So I burn the siess away without hurting you. Let me show you that it doesn’t burn,” he remarked before f an orb of foxfire and holding it around his illusion’s head.

  The woman gave him a scared look before seeing the fire surrounding the illusion’s head without aion, and then calmed down a little, responding, “That is scary, but I guess if it works, that is what matters. I’ll try not to move, but it is scary looking.”

  Nodding, Niphru sent the fme, as well as a sed, to cover the woman’s body as much as possible, fog on having them heal her siess. While the expnation before wasly accurate, it was more believable than fire that healed.

  After moving the fmes up the woman’s form until he had pletely swept over her, Niphru told her, “You should be fine now, so I’ll be going to help the person.”

  The woman quickly thanked him before he left, and then he repeated the process with several other people, gaining an increased uanding of human bodies as he tinued.