Location:Obsidian Academy — Infirmary / Courtyard
Date/Time:Ashbloom, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The girl's collarbone was broken.
Green could feel it before she touched it — the disrupted essence flow where bone had separated, the inflammation signature radiating heat through the skin, the specific jagged edge of a fracture caused by impact rather than stress. Training injury. The girl had been sparring with someone stronger and had failed to dodge the overhead strike that her cultivation level wasn't ready for.
"Hold still," Green said. Her voice was soft. Musical. The voice that millennia of healing had shaped into an instrument as precise as her hands. "This will hurt, and then it won't."
