[Flashback] Baptism by Fire [Elisse]

[Tabarnac]

With nary a flicker of his eye, the res immediately seeped into her wounds, into her mouth, nostrils, ears, eyes, and other, more secret orifices. Her blood began to burn to the quickened pace of her heartbeat and one might wonder whether he was slowly transmuting his res into fire within her, but finally she was full of energies not her own, just shy of the bursting point, and he released her back into the chair, observing her coolly as the convulsions began. This was the waiting period, while his magic changed her, and all he could do was watch and wait, keeping the res extant by sheer force of will, ready to remove it when the time was right.