Maybe because he'd tried to take a chunk out of your shoulder, Astronema? It... takes her a second to remember that, actually, and she looks down at her shoulder and moves that arm around, quite used to checking herself for injuries that might restrict movement.
"It seems fine. There will be an impressive bruise, but no worse than anything I took in training."
She looks at him, then, the matter of her shoulder easily dismissed.
"Are you okay? I know it can be jarring."
Astronema's had just about every form of mind-control, brainwashing, and manipulation done to her own head, after all. Probably even this very spell at some point, or some variation of it she'd reverse engineered later.
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Maybe because he'd tried to take a chunk out of your shoulder, Astronema? It... takes her a second to remember that, actually, and she looks down at her shoulder and moves that arm around, quite used to checking herself for injuries that might restrict movement.
"It seems fine. There will be an impressive bruise, but no worse than anything I took in training."
She looks at him, then, the matter of her shoulder easily dismissed.
"Are you okay? I know it can be jarring."
Astronema's had just about every form of mind-control, brainwashing, and manipulation done to her own head, after all. Probably even this very spell at some point, or some variation of it she'd reverse engineered later.