Kendra and the sands 2

Tanu had three deep, ragged gouges across his beefy forearm.


Kendra poured golden dust from the teapot onto the wounds. Much of the dust seemed to dissolve on contact.


The gouges vanished, leaving no scar. An enormous chunk of flesh was missing from Tanu's shoulder, but when Kendra filled the gaping wound with dust from the teapot, it closed and the skin above it looked like new. As Kendra shook the feline teapot over Tanu, his white flesh returned to a healthy brown, and all his wounds closed and vanished. Tanu shook his head, powdery dust rising from his hair.


Kendra hurried over to Vanessa, who lay moaning, withered, unrecognizable, incapable of movement or speech.

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Coulter kicked the spear away as Kendra coated Vanessa with the dust from the teapot. The healing dust renewed itself and continued to flow until Kendra stopped pouring, leaving Vanessa perfectly whole and unscarred. She sat up, staring at the teapot in wonder. "Nothing could have cured those burns," she said in amazement. "I was blind and nearly deaf."

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As soon as he became tangible, Kendra covered him with dust from the teapot, mending broken bones and poisoned tissue and burns and ruptured organs. He sat up, blinking, unbelieving. When he removed the blood-soaked shirt from his abdomen, he found no mark beneath it.

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