Bella returns her attention to the book. This is officially much, much more interesting than her broken leg.
"- Attack and Defenʃe, and other Uʃes. Theʃe Powers are marvelous and I value them and wiʃh them paʃʃed on to future Perʃons who may come to underʃtand them. However the Powers come with a Cost, borne in Pain."
Uh-huh...
"For the Firʃt-Coin, the least prick of a Pin will ʃuffice, yet for greater Coins greater Pains are required. Only Pain and not laʃting Injury is needed and so Gains may yet be made in the relief of ʃickneʃʃes and Wounds."
Bella turns the page.
"Make a Coin by producing in thyʃelf a Pain, and then moving thine Pain through thy Mind from Left to Right. Thine Coin will appear, in whatever sort correʃponds to the uʃed Pain."
Bella is absolutely certain that this would have made no sense a minute ago.
But now - it does.
She moves her leg, abruptly, sharply, and she moves that pain through her mind. Left to right.
And she's holding a pentagon with a hole in the middle of it, and it glows a soft red.
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It fucking disappears.
Bella returns her attention to the book. This is officially much, much more interesting than her broken leg.
"- Attack and Defenʃe, and other Uʃes. Theʃe Powers are marvelous and I value them and wiʃh them paʃʃed on to future Perʃons who may come to underʃtand them. However the Powers come with a Cost, borne in Pain."
Uh-huh...
"For the Firʃt-Coin, the least prick of a Pin will ʃuffice, yet for greater Coins greater Pains are required. Only Pain and not laʃting Injury is needed and so Gains may yet be made in the relief of ʃickneʃʃes and Wounds."
Bella turns the page.
"Make a Coin by producing in thyʃelf a Pain, and then moving thine Pain through thy Mind from Left to Right. Thine Coin will appear, in whatever sort correʃponds to the uʃed Pain."
Bella is absolutely certain that this would have made no sense a minute ago.
But now - it does.
She moves her leg, abruptly, sharply, and she moves that pain through her mind. Left to right.
And she's holding a pentagon with a hole in the middle of it, and it glows a soft red.
Damn.