#healercore

As a Healer, the more you use your power, the stronger it generally becomes. Alongside that, the more you heal a specific type of malady, the more your power will "specialize", and become better and faster at healing that thing. You can still heal other things, of course, but slower.

For example: Kiera Todd, main character of my story, has specialties in healing traumatic injury and infection. Her power is very good at things like sealing wounds and mending broken bones, as well as destroying germs that cause disease. In her current state, she can heal these specific things in matters of just a couple hours or less. She is not quite as good at healing things like, say, insomnia. She theoretically could heal this, but it would take much longer than what she specializes in.

Specialties can be simple and straightforward, like Kiera's, or more complex and somewhat abstract.

Another example: One Healer who works in the main Den's hospital is a mothperson named Gwen. Her power specializes in hormonal balance and gender-affirming care, and can do in days to months what could otherwise take years. I'll go deeper into how this works later.

Other Healers can have even wilder specialties, like stopping nightmares, fixing teeth, and even breaking curses!

Healing is able to do this because of how it works at the most basic level. It "checks" for harm occurring to the body of a patient, and then uses the Healer's immune system or magical abilities to reverse that harm, and prevent it from happening again.