Chapter 7 is up!!
They're more and less comfortable together now.
For some time they proceed as they were before, because that’s what feels simplest in the plain light of day.
Sephiroth’s understanding of where to go has become more nuanced since his ordeal, and he leads them with purpose.
He hears whispers, sees flashes of other lives lived in these lands as they pass through. Insubstantial farmers waking with the dawn and working until the sun is high; ghostly hunters stalking their prey at dusk; a robed group of nomads from long, long ago whose apparitions sing their way through the landscape each night with twinkling viridian flecks swirling around them like dust motes.
The hills here are gentle and covered alternately with kaleidoscopic floral expanses and long, yellowed, rusty-dry waving grass that looks soft from far away but whips and prickles if you reach for it as you walk.
As they carve their long parallel paths towards the horizon, twin memories of the silvery twilight forest and the amber-gold afternoon meadow simmer under their skin and flash unbidden in their minds.
CONSIDER YOURSELF OFF DUTY TILL SUNDOWN
The early light of dawn illuminates ice forming at the edge of this pond in Vermont. Caught after a frigid mid-November night, the ice is some of winter’s first. The interface between seasons reflects the interface in water phases. (Image credit: A. Raeder; via CUPOTY) Read the full article
media with healing magic really ought to get more in the weeds about it tbh
get kinda Icky and Medical about it, how does the healer stitch flesh and blood vessels and nerve endings back together, does it hurt when those nerves reconnect? is it euphoric? is it a little bit of both?
if the healer can manipulate the living body like that, what stops them doing it in reverse? can a sufficiently skilled healer yank the nerves out through a victim's pores?
if 'necromancy' exists as a concept in the setting: how is that any different? should it be? is schlorping a severed limb back onto its owner's body _really_ meaningfully different from resurrecting the whole body as some kind of undead creature?
can healing magic be used to do ~weird shit~ with the endocrine system of a person? could a healer just juice someone with a shitload of estrogen, for fun or pleasure?
monsoonpanda's ff7 fic updates/moodboardcurrent WIP: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54933754/chapters/139250587
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