Reidar dropped to one knee beside Lena, his hands already glowing with the light of mana. He was casting Circle of Renewal.
The warmth spread through her torn clothes and into the deep gash on her head. The bleeding slowed, then stopped as torn flesh and broken bones began to knit themselves back together under the spell's influence.
Her breathing, which had been shallow and ragged, deepened into something more stable. The terrible pallor of her face regained a hint of color.
Reidar kept the channel going, pouring more mana into the healing circle until the worst of the damage was sealed.
The problem was that Lena had lost a lot of blood, and there was no way for that to get produced by a healing spell of such a low tier. The spell itself wasn't even that fast or effective.
