The secondary line repairs took a week.
Not because each one was individually difficult but because the forced closures had to be addressed carefully, the damaged lines coaxed back to their natural state before they could be healed properly, which required a different kind of attention than the natural closings demanded. Where the natural closings required me to be fully present and fully yielded, the repairs required precision, the convergence sense applied like a surgeon’s tool rather than a wave.
Thessaly worked alongside me for every repair.
This was not her original function in Duskmere and not what her blood witch training had been designed for, but she had read everything available about convergence methodology and had developed, through the specific determination of someone who
