As if in response to her question of the existence of her fellow victims, I look over to the door, leading her to look over at it as well. Without saying anything else, she springs to her feet. Still staring at it, she looks to be in a daze.
To get her out of it, I say so key words.
Would you like to go see them?
Her attention snaps back at and then down to her hands. She doesnt give a sign of affirming my words. Instead, it appears she is fully realizing that she has a body again.
I suppose ntioning wanting to see them brought to mind how she's changed too. It might be helpful to give her a mirror.
Reaching into my space bracelet, I pull out a normal mirror that I keep for myself. I hold it out to her.
Once the mirror gets into her personal space, she seems to catch sight of it and again. After looking at it for a mont, she nods and looks into it. Staring and touching her hair and face, dumbfounded.
Since it's crucial for soone to regain a positive self-image after such a situation, I don't hurry her. This takes a while.
To head off any potential issues, I turn toward the one-way mirror for a mont and mouth a keyword to the people watching inside.
Patience.
From there, I continue waiting another 10 minutes before she snaps out of her daze. When giving it back to , she tenderly grabs my hand for a mont. Her mouth opens a bit, as if she wants to say sothing, but she holds it back and utters sothing different.
I Im ready to see the others.
Walking over to the door, I open it for her and allow her to walk out first. Behind her, I motion the rest of the group behind the one-way mirror to wait for a bit.
She takes so shaky steps towards it, glancing back at with every other one. A change seems to co through her, when she crosses the threshold of the door, with not stopping her. A little more confident, but also a little more unsure.
That Long Heng absolutely played gas with her mind. Making her think she had the chance to be free at so point, and then dashed all her hopes away again.
I cant wait until Sister Nuan deals with him.
You dont have to worry I know what you went through. This ti its real.
She turns back and gives another hard look, stopping in the middle of the hallway. She continues on a short while later.
Since the ward is close by, it only takes a bit to lead her there.
And when she opens the door, I can sense her go through a variety of emotions. Her hand clenches tighter.
Seeing everyone still alive and back in their normal bodies after knowing their previous state is emotional, even for .
This is what finally breaks the strength in her legs. She collapses to the ground and starts crying.
I can tell that I should give her so space for a bit. Letting her cry alone for a bit.
After a while, I then reach over to give her a side-arm hug, which she accepts without issues.
When she gets back up, wiping the tears from her eyes, I finally get to see a hint of the woman she used to be: a proud warrior, taking command of the situation.
Walking from bed to bed, she checks the status of each person. So people she looks affectionately at, while so others I can see the vestiges of hatred.
For those she had hate for, it seems to dim a bit after spending so ti at their side. I notice that many of the ones she was angry at had traits that would predispose them to psychopathy, extre narcissism, or other negative qualities. Which likely ant they betrayed the group or her in so way.
One woman she even gave a hard slap that I had to heal after. But it seems after she moved past each one, she was forgiving them. The staff I had in the room to watch all the patients stay back at my sign.
Dang I wish I could let this continue, as this is part of the healing process, but unfortunately, Im on a tiline for getting heading out to see Big Sis Crane.
The Patriarch told she was expecting , with a loose tiline. But a loose tiline is still one, nonetheless.
And I can tell that for , would be around two weeks from this point.
To heal these 300 or so people, Ill need over a week of work. Not including the ti that I need to spend with everyone else.
I softly speak up, to not disturb her mind too much.
Jin Chin? Ill need to heal them soon, as well. Well have ti for you all to et again in a safe environnt afterward. Will that be okay?
She looks up in shock before realizing what I an. She gives a nod as she steps back.
From here, I lead her into an adjacent, equally large ward, that I have open for healed patients. As before, I leave one of the staff with them.
Before I start on the next patient, I go back to the healing team, still in the one-way window room and give a debrief, before moving onto the next patient.
Pulling the next patient into the mirror room, I continue through this ntal healing process, repeatedly.
So patients require more adjustnt, while others much less. To my pleasant surprise, it appears that my ntal apparition, which arises when I heal their ntal aspects, is carrying more of the weight in helping them navigate the journey.
In so ways, its taking the place of a dissociative personality that would be or was ford from their trauma. Helping them to deal with the replay of their traumas and other situations.
The ti displacent between their ntal space and real life is quite large, as well. So, even I have trouble telling how much ti they spent going through those replays, talking about it with the apparition.
Heck, I wouldnt be surprised if they beat it up at so point.
Which gives rise to a panicked new thought in . After a few checks, Im relieved that it wont be a permanent ntal aspect in their mind, but it was just a transition piece during the healing process.
All of this would definitely explain why they aren't attacking or running away from while I help them. In so ways, just having soone with them through the entire process helps to get through it. To talk through the situation while building so trust.
I suspect they know that its not really , based on how it works. But the positive feelings it generates dont seem to disappear afterwards.
I just need to make sure not to betray their feelings. Especially after what they went through.
Overall, Im surprised that, on average, it only takes around 30 minutes from the ti I heal a person to the ti that I bring them into the healed victims ward.
While Im off healing, it seems like there are so argunts, but the staff can handle it, mostly.
For those with psychopathy, extre narcissism, or other negative traits caused by their bodies, I helped to adjust it so they can experience life in a better way, while not causing harm to others. Sothing, from the argunts I can overhear, was clearly happening before the healing.
All while I do this, I can see the sun dip outside and rise again. And repeats.
Ai, Lin, and the others head to bed on the first night and co back every day for a period of ti. Each ti, they convince to take a break from healing to talk with them and spend a little ti away from the situation.
Im realizing a bit what the doctors of my world were going through. It is so rough knowing that you can help soone, seeing them in front of you, but stepping away instead to rest.
But my friends are right. Even if my body can handle staying up night after night Im still dealing with the patients ntal struggles, which affects as well, because I care.
So, in the ti off, I spend ti: creating a jade slip of the Omnibus Cultivation System and entrusting it to them, with any needed information; ditating and cultivating, to continue my growth in Rank 3 of Qi Condensation; conveying my thoughts to Sister Nuan on who we should be inviting to the servant and elder contracts; and eting with/advising the others in my group, as per my previous promises.
In this way, 6 days pass and I find myself on the 7th, almost done.
By this ti, the construction teams have finished their updates and all who are left at my towers are the contract holders and so people and elders added to the elder contract.
Ai, Lin, and Shi are also preparing sothing for when Ive completed this.
I have a guess what it might be.
But all those thoughts fall to the side, as Ive finally reached the last person to heal. It feels anticlimactic, as they are like many others who were victims of Long Heng another beautiful woman that he broke.
Once shes healed and brought into the healed ward, I finish things out with batches of group therapy. To provide them a way to discuss their pain with each other and reform healthy connections with each other.
With my limited ti, I was worried that I may not be able to provide the continuing care so of them might need, but I was thrilled to see two people in my healer group excel in the ntal health area.
Ming and i Lin.
i Lin, of course, had a leg up with her ability to read emotions and other things with her ability.
Ming, however, seems to have an endless well of empathy and kindness in him. Despite not having a formal ability with it, he just seems to connect with people on a deep level, letting them know he cares and will listen to them. His imnse size seems to provide a form of ntal discrepancy with the people he talks with, putting them at ease.
Adding to that, both of them have also read through and understood all the coursework I had prepared.
Simply stating it may seem easy, but it equates to the amount of reading and experience a dical student goes through from undergrad to becoming a doctor. Included in it were the ntal health trainings.
All in a week.
Cultivators are absurd.
And of course, while I was doing all of this, everyone on the contracts were practicing either the OCS cultivation thod or their own thods. Generally, reaching Rank 1 of Qi Condensation across the board.
Ming went for the first cultivation rank and stop to get back to studying.
Having tested Ming and made sure that he could work with them in group therapy and individual sessions. I also add in other readings and made a jade slip for the healing skill set, so that he and others could better understand the concepts.
Of course, the empty jade slips cost quite a bit, but considering I have a whole healing team, I viewed the skill set as worth it to put on a jade slip.
The only requirent to being able to read and use the dical skills/knowledge jade slip is to read and understand all the items on the required reading list.
They cant get used to the easy way of giving them everything. Before they get my side, they need to learn to research for themselves first.
And thus, Ive finally co to this point. At the beginning of the second week.
All 300 or so victims stand before . Healed and (mostly) ntally sound. All won, because of Long Hengs taste.
Everyone here looks at each other, before three people step forward out of the group.
The first is Jin Chin, being the first that I healed in the group.
The other two were more in the middle of the healing batches.
But what I find curious is the looks of distaste between Jin Chin and one of the won.
what are they planning?
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