Physician, heal thyself (Alexandra)

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

For once Minna was not meditating prior to a lesson. This time, she was practicing her lightsaber technique. Her lightsaber whirred and whizzed in the air, nothing but a flash of white as the Yodaling leaped around her target, placing precise strikes on the training dummy. Her main form, Ataru, was something of an expertise for her now, but there was still time until she mastered it. It was to be noted though that while she was doing a great amount of leaping and exercise, she was extremely calm and centred. This was a new form of meditation for her, where she practiced not only the art of combat, but also finding peace through it, and through the force. But as she sensed the familiar essence of her former master approaching, she ceased her jumping and holstered her lightsaber.

Placing her robes back on herself, she awaited the healing lesson ahead.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

Alexandra flexed her hand a bit, looking at her palm as she was about to teach healing once more and oh how she loved to teach this... she was going to have to create a creature wooner or later to replace her hand because sooner or later she would make a permanent mistake. For now though she smiled and looked at the small Yodaling that stood there waiting for her, motioning for Minna to sit down. "Now now, no need to remain standing all formal Minna, you know i hate being treated like a master." She smiled and sat down slowly on the ground, looking at her counterpart.

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Minna flashed a warm smile in response, making her way over to Alex and sitting herself cross-legged opposite her. "Old habits die hard, the saying is, hmm?" She gave a small laugh, placing her small tri-fingered hands on her lap. Her posture was relaxed now. Although she was about to be taught, Minna saw it as a sharing of knowledge between friends, rather than a lesson a Master would give their Padawan. Alexandra would always be the one who had made Minna the Grey she was today, but more than that, she was the Yodaling's oldest friend. "A pleasure, it is, to be learning from you again."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

"Now now Minna, the pleasure is mind in being able to teach you what i know." She smiled and took out the small blade before looking at Minna and speaking again in a more serious fashion. "Healing is a highly advanced art, you must know both the medical biology and make up of a creature, and even more in certain disciplines as you are manipulating the cells in a body. You see, being ignorant to what the force can do to a body is inviting a mistake and the possible death of the patient. With that you must also connect your self to the person, feel their pain and feel their every cell as they deal with the manipulation."

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Minna nodded, her face now serious in expression. She was not one to take the force lightly, and so she felt at least partially prepared to practice this art. "Of course." She said. "Careful, I will be." Despite the risks, the Yodaling was not worried or anxious. Instead she aimed to stay calm and collected throughout the lesson, ensuring no drastic mistakes would happen. Hopefully.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

"Good..." She picked up the knife, placed the blade in her palm before pulling it across her palm and let the blood flow out of her hand and coat the blade, wincing alittle but still it seemed like she had been pinched not cut. Now she looked up at Minna and spoke, holding up her hand and letting it be seen in clear sight. "You are not physically stitching the wound back together but rather speeding up the expansion of cells and willing the wound's natural process to be hurried. Physically healing a wound with only the force is extremely difficult and at a much later time will i expand on that. Do you understand?" She kept her eyes on minna, though her other uncut hand moved over the wound now.

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Minna nodded along with Alex's words, examining the self-inflicted wound and envisioning the idea of speeding up the cell's expansion. It wasn't how she would have guessed it worked, but it made perfect sense. She made a mental note of the process, then focused her attention on Alex's spare hand, which was now hovering over the wound, no doubt to perform the healing.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

"Now with that said, there is the fact of what i am going to say next. You must always keep check on the speed at which you do this, yes it does not matter what the end speed is in which you increase the growth of cells, but with that said you must be able to slow it back down as well... or you risk creating cancerous cells that will then cause more damage than the original wound itself... If you speed up the cells too much for you to be able to slow down you will do more damage than help."

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Yet again more sensible information. It was clear to Minna now that this was an advanced art, and any who tried to practice it untrained would have an extremely difficult time unless they knew a lot about biology. "I see. Work with the cells, you must, not push them too far." The Yodaling nodded, making another mental note, then examining the wound again. She felt confident about the knowledge she had learned so far.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

"Because i dont want to pass out from blood loss, i think its time i show you waht the end result should look like, or rather what the process should." She smiled and turned her eyes down to the wound and closed her eyes as she breathed in, then let it go as strands of lightside energy reached out from her unharmed hand, reaching down and stitching the wound microscopically, willing the cells to reproduce and grow, letting the natural process of healing be sped up and her eyes remaining unmoving. Even her breathing had seemed to stop as she focused in on the cut until after three minutes the wound was closed without a scar. Alex smiled as she lowered her hand and let out sigh. "Even after all my practice, that still leaves a bit worse for wear after."

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Minna watched in slight awe as the wound slowly but surely stitched itself back together. Although she was a Knight, the force never ceased to amaze her in what it could do. The Yodaling watched patiently until the wound was fully healed, then looked up to her master. "My turn, I guess it is?" She asked, a rhetorical question though, as she brought a small dagger out from her robes and pointed it's end into the middle of her palm. With a small twist the dagger drew blood, and Minna quickly put it back in her belt. Minna's eyes flickered up to Alex for a moment, before fixating their gaze on the small injury. Placing her other hand over it, she closed her eyes and breathed in deeply. With an exhale of breath the force flowed through her, spreading from her uninjured palm gently and channeling itself to the wound. Slowly the microscopic cells regenerated, although with some extremely deep concentration from Minna. It was her first try, and so it took a while, but eventually the wound sealed itself. She brought the regeneration of the cells to a gradual stop, ensuring she didn't overdo it and end up with a cancerous cell.

With her hand healed, she gave it a flex to make sure it was complete, then looked up to Alexandra with a slight smile. "Understand it, I do. But plenty of practice in the future, I will need."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

She stared wide eyed as she couldn't speak before Minna suddenly cut her hand, cursing to herself for making it look like thats what the first step in the chain was, onlly she also forgot that Minna was not a new student and for the moment stared in a bit of awe at the fact that minna was doing exactly as Alexandra had shown her. Her hand dropped to her lap now though as she watched minna finish. "Y-you are reckless minna, i didn't say to do that... but good job, you my reckless little friend." She smiled wide at Minna's success, still a bit awed.

[member="Minna"]

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

A small laugh came from the Yodaling. "Sorry. You were going to ask me to try the same thing, I assumed." She lowered her head slightly, showing a mix between guilt for assuming the wrong thing and humor for being called reckless. Of course, she'd never been called that before, and it made the matter funnier for her. "Only a small victory, it was." Minna stated modestly, still with a hint of a smile.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Minna"]

"WEll, not the same thing, just something a bit smaller.. and on me, incase you screwed up and i had to stop you from going further... but it appears you understood my lesson quite perfectly." She smiled and crossed her hands as she looked at the Yodaling's hand before glancing up and speaking in a voice that had mock sorrow. "You know, you just blew two months of lessons out of the water, what am i going to teach you now you reckless little sprite."

 

[Minna]

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

Minna grinned. "Plenty more for you to teach me, there is. I'm nowhere near a Master of your knowledge. So for as long as that is, teach me everything, you shall." The Yodaling continued to look up at Alex, her mind somehow pondering on the thought that one day she would outlive her, if something didn't prevent it in the mean time. She wasn't an expert on Echani lifespans, and wasn't sure on whether there was anything else that affected her Master's aging, but she realised that if she lived to see the day that her friend passed on... She didn't know what she'd do. Assuming Krest would be gone by then aswell, Minna would have no one like them for the countless centuries longer that her species live until. The thought saddened her, and so she tried her best to shove it aside.