Completing his transactions, he retrieved the dozens of scrolls from the kiosk window and began making his rounds, passing them out.  Ramon actually hugged him when he dumped the pile of scrolls on a workbench in front of him.  Michael chuckled like an evil overlord gloating over his plan for world domination.

Amanda chose a more active form of thanks.  When she read the description of the Internal Analysis spell, she instantly opened and learned it.  Sitting patiently on her exam table, Allistor watched her zone out and noticed a faint flash in her eyes.  He also detected a sort of wavy distortion field around her that resembled the heat waves you might see in a desert.   He reached out to touch it, but it faded before he came in contact.

She turned to him, saying, “Thank you, lover.  Now strip!”

Allistor chuckled as he started to pull his shirt off.  “I wonder if Nancy and Lilly are gonna thank me this way…”  She smacked the back of his head.

“You wish.  I’m gonna test out this new spell.  You’re my guinea pig.”

Pausing in the act of undoing his belt, he stopped disrobing.  She could look through his chest.  No reason to put his bare butt on the cold table for no good reason.   “Fine.  Go for it.”

Amanda mumbled something, then her eyes began to glow again.  She stared directly into his chest for a minute or so.  Then she took his hand and raised it, examining the hand, wrist, arm, and then shoulder.   “Interesting,” she mumbled as she moved upward to stare into his head.  Allistor felt a little creeped out.

“What’s interesting in my head?” He was actually a little nervous she’d found a tumor or something.

“Hmmm… what?”  She blinked, and the light left her eyes.  “Oh.  No.  Not in your head.  As far as I could see it’s empty.” She smirked at him as he rolled his eyes.   “No, what was interesting is your elbow and your shoulder.  Though they have fully healed, and healed quickly because of whatever the system does to us, I could see the remodeling of the bone.   Both the break in your elbow and the dents that lanx put in your shoulder.   Remodeling can often make a bone stronger than it was before the break.  So… letting things bite you all the time, as Chloe would put it, might actually be making you stronger.”

She thought for a while, puttering around with his hand.  “Makes sense, really.  I mean, if you suddenly dumped five points into Strength and had the muscle mass to leap over a building, you’d need the bone structure to survive the landing.  Assuming it didn’t kill you, each time you damaged yourself, you’d heal up and get stronger.”

She set down his hand and cast the spell again.  This time looking through his jeans where he’d broken his leg.  “Works through clothes, no problem.”  She touched his thigh as she leaned down to get a closer look.  “And there’s remodeling here as well.  I wonder… I’d like to be using this spell on someone when they increase their constitution.   Fascinating.”