I opened my eyes and looked at the object I held in my hand. It was nothing like the cracked and rotten thing I'd held before. "It's beautiful!!" I breathed, staring at the small, slightly glowing, red orb. I knew that the Healing had been the best I'd ever done.

I admired it for a moment, then slipped it into a hidden compartment in my armor.

Spati and Moonsong walked a little ahead of me as we walked back to camp.

When we got there, I excused myself--we all needed dinner.

I found a young wild pig in the next cleating and approached it carefully. I laid my hand on it and felt a tingling in my fingertips. I sent out a tendril of energy, but this time, instead of healing, it destroyed. I felt the pig drop, and knew that when the others saw it they'd find the bones of the neck crushed and that the spinal cord had all but exploded from the inside.