✨ magical healing ✨ that’s necessary but so horrifically painful.
it pulls the character from a dead faint. they arch off the bed/floor, they’re screaming, they have to be held down and when it’s finally done they go completely limp again.
everyone’s relieved it’s over but it’s not a perfect fix. magic can seal a wound, stop the bleeding—but it doesn’t replace the lost blood, heal the wounds that aren’t physical. it’s a band-aid at best.
the character still has a long road to recovery, just floating there, in and out of consciousness, the friends/found fam/team alternates sitting by their bedside waiting for them to come back.
then, when they do wake up, they’re disoriented, dizzy, unsteady. confused by their already scarred over wound. maybe they wake up fully when no one is around and try to get up too fast and end up in a heap on the floor—you know the drill. so much whumpy potential.
