Poking at food she doesn’t have money to pay for at a diner.
Feeling like an alien, like she’s something else even if she isn’t.
She keeps her delicate grip on his hand until the spell is complete. His hand is renewed. Feels a bit better than before he shattered it on some guys face. Years of crime fighting stiffness and aches eased with carefully spoken words and her concentration.
Mags pulls her >
< hands away, not seeming to mind the blood he’s left behind on them. She shrugs a shoulder.
“It didn’t seem like good conversation for our first meeting.”
She won’t get into how it isn’t just boy problems. As much as she can tell he wants to help, it’s something she’ll have >
“Uh, of a sort.”
Careful fingers tenderly undo the shoddy bandaging her did to reveal his hand to her. Mangled is pretty accurate. Mags chews her lower lip. She hasn’t done this for anyone but herself in a very long time.
One of her hands holds his palm to palm. The other >
< lingers in the air about two inches above the back of his hand. She shuts her eyes and concentrates. Lips shaping words spoken too quiet for him to really hear.
After a couple seconds of her quiet mantra, a warm glow shines between her hands. The light envelopes his hand. >







