Healing Bond would not finish recharging until midmorning.
I had used it on Lena in a corridor the previous day, immediately after cultivation, and the skill measured twenty-four hours with the precision of something that had never once been late.
Which meant I spent the first part of the day waiting for a number to change.
[You have checked three times.]
'I'm monitoring a resource.'
[You are watching a number.]
'Those are the same activity.'
[One of them is dignified.]
One use when it arrived. Then another full day of nothing.
Lena had spent her hour producing three pages of notes, most of forty questions, and a proposal to repeat the process weekly under what she described as controlled conditions.
Six remaining.
Four of the ones that actually mattered lived in other buildings.
***
Zenith paired classes for practical work.
