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𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 🌸 𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 🌸 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

（ ooc; if you'd like to handwave her healing/helping your character, feel free to reply and just put HANDWAVED in the subject line. helps me keep track! ）

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From:

midway

Did you have shapeshifters where you come from?

From:

craters

No.

Do you think she's one?

From:

midway

I couldn't say. The shapeshifters in Fodlan could have people fooled for decades.

What she described reminded me of how they would behave. They'd impersonate nobility and infiltrate country leaderships, destabilizing their rule from within.

But it's too early to tell! I could be projecting.

From:

craters

Projecting or not, it's certainly an angle to consider.

Is there anything in your world that can be done to reveal them? Not that it would work here, necessarily, but just as a way to categorize possibilities.

From:

midway

Honestly, not much. They used a type of magic that was practically unheard of. They would only reveal themselves when their machinations were discovered.

I think all you can do is take a close look at the people around you and take note when they start to behave erratically without apparent cause.

Though I suspect... You could also steal their blood and have a look?

[ is he understanding blood correctly... ]

From:

craters

Are you certain this magic doesn't allow for mimicry on a cellular level?

It would be more difficult here as well, given the impact our Shadows have on us, to identify erratic behaviour with the same level of certainty as in our own worlds, I think.

But if you come across anyone you're uncertain about, we can work on getting their DNA and I can try to figure it out that way. We don't even need blood for that, necessarily. Saliva would work as well.

From:

midway

Ah well, considering that I'd never heard of cells prior to coming here, I couldn't tell you how deep the mimicry goes.

Do you think that's possible?

From:

craters

（ white zetsu couldn't do it. her mind jumps to orochimaru, and all his ugly laboratories... just because something can't be done yet doesn't mean it can never be done, after all. ）

I think it would be very foolish to assume it's impossible. As for likely versus unlikely, we have a bit more leeway in that case.

But the more safeties we have in place, the better. A DNA test should probably just be one thing we have in our arsenal — so to speak — than the sole thing on which we rely.

Of course, we're speaking entirely in theoreticals at this point.

From:

midway

Yeah, it's far too soon to hyperfocus on any one option. For all we know, it's a regular old bastard, not a shapeshifting one.

While I have you... There is another question I'd like to trouble you with.

Do you suppose magic could heal a wound that's been left untreated for some time without leaving a scar?

[ the healing magic that he's familiar with couldn't. even some wounds treated immediately would still leave marks etched into soldiers' bodies, depending on the severity. ]

From:

craters

It's not any trouble.

Back home, that's well within my capabilities. Here, it's a little more uncertain... I'd need to see the injury myself, and it would probably take multiple sessions. Depending on the severity of the injury and the extent, it may require debridement.

Do you have pictures? Or I can come see it in person if that's easier for you.

From:

midway

It's not me, but about those who were imprisoned and branded.

I'd like to get rid of the mark for the people I know, but I suppose it's not as simple as applying a balm, is it?

From:

craters

The brands are resistant to my sort of healing — and your suspicion is correct, salves and balms don't work in and of themselves.

However — and I can't take credit for this discovery, myself — the skin of the badiliscus is able to reduce the scarring to the point of invisibility.

A friend of mine makes a point of keeping me stocked up, if you wanted to swing by the clinic I'll see some are set aside for you, as well as something for the pain. Can you give me a rough number of how many people you're looking to treat?

（ she'd offer to help them directly, but... sometimes people or private, or maybe it's just a kind thing claude is looking to do for his friends. she's not going to interfere with that, the brands aren't life or death, they don't require a healer's touch outright. as long as he can wrap a passable bandage, it'll be fine. ）

From:

midway

You must be the busiest person in this city, Miss Sakura. [ if she isn't claiming credit ]

In that case, I suppose I could just direct them to your clinic. I'd like to be owed a favour from one of them though, so if you could set aside at least one...