She hesitates, but speaks on. "This is a secret of the Ninth. You must guard it."
"The trick to growing bone--the fundamental of it, at least--is that bone is a natural reservoir of thanergy. A necromancer working with thanergy can't heal, can't move it, can't store it; only convert it. You can power a cell by flipping its thalergy into thanergy, but it's like setting yourself on fire to keep warm."
"But if it's bone--as long as I have a single living osteoblast, I can wick away the thanergy into the new bone. The cell is dying all the time, but growing too, and it never tips all the way over because the overflow just soaks into the bones."
"You can set yourself on fire as long as there's always more fuel and the fire never reaches your skin."
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Date: 2020-10-14 01:06 am (UTC)"The trick to growing bone--the fundamental of it, at least--is that bone is a natural reservoir of thanergy. A necromancer working with thanergy can't heal, can't move it, can't store it; only convert it. You can power a cell by flipping its thalergy into thanergy, but it's like setting yourself on fire to keep warm."
"But if it's bone--as long as I have a single living osteoblast, I can wick away the thanergy into the new bone. The cell is dying all the time, but growing too, and it never tips all the way over because the overflow just soaks into the bones."
"You can set yourself on fire as long as there's always more fuel and the fire never reaches your skin."