Capítulo 28: Chapter 28: Debt, Part 2

Cemal watched her in fascination. Healing was a rare gift, and all healers were overworked because of it. Finding one was hard, which made the chance to see one at work even rarer. It was also a dangerous art, more so than most other forms of magic, because healers literally poured their life energy into others to repair a wound or cure illness. When someone was grievously injured or sick, it was too easy for a healer to lose track of their own life energy.

History was rife with tragic tales of healers who had sacrificed themselves to save others, or healers forced to let loved ones die because the healer's life was considered more important. There were also tales of healers who had taken the energy of others in order to save someone. The third King of Orhanis had been fatally wounded in battle; in order to save him, the royal healer used the life energies of two soldiers, and a large measure of her own.