"Your healing ability is functioning at approximately sixty percent capacity."
Dr. Whitford delivered this news three days after the duel with a clinical detachment that made it somehow worse. I sat on the examination table in my own healing center, the irony not lost on me that I was now a patient in the facility I had built.
"Sixty percent," I repeated, the number feeling both better and worse than I had feared. "So I lost forty percent of my power permanently?"
"We do not know if it is permanent yet," Dr. Whitford said carefully, reviewing her charts with a frown. "The extraction ritual Lydia used was interrupted before completion, which means the damage might heal over time. Your body could regenerate the lost capacity naturally, or it might stabilize at this reduced level. We simpl
