"Why won't these wounds heal as quickly as they used to?" asked Victor. The man had sat Rose at the edge of a mattress in a room inside the building they both didn't really know to belong to whom. He also took a basin of water and cloth to clean Rose's wounds. Victor knelt before Rose. His big fingers tried to clean the wounds on Rose's fingers because of the bow rope. As usual, he treated Rose like the girl was a frail glass he needed to be careful with. "I spent all my magic calling Wrath. Maybe that's why my healing abilities are hampered." Victor nodded to Rose's explanation. He returned to clean Rose's fingers. The man had found bandages and some ointment in the house's cabinet. Looks like the landlord was a healer. "Isn't this stealing?" asked Rose. "I'll pay whoever the owner i

