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Five years after the assassination attempt, Flying Arrow showed almost no ill effects. At Flaming Arrow's insistence, Healing Hand and Spying Eagle eventually healed the seventh Emperor Arrow. The two Wizards pioneered a tissue regeneration process that earned them accolades from fellow Wizards across the continent. Fetal neurons stop dividing in the womb six months after conception. Neural damage to an adult is therefore permanent. However, the two Wizards located the chromosome that controls neural mitosis. Splicing the proper peptide into a single neuron, the Wizards generated four billion new neurons to replace the dead ones on the right side of Flying Arrow's cerebral cortex. Live neurons don't a functioning brain make, however. Connecting the neural tissue into assemblies that wo
