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"How long would you need to stay?"
"Approximately one month. According to the scholars I consulted."
Leysah belted out a guffaw that drew everyone else's wince. There was finding something funny and there was gathering pleasure out of the 'pain' of others. Qatrand gave the woman a look and the curved blade wielder cleared her throat and settled down at the table. It wasn't as if she really wished it on anyone, but what was wrong with being amused even if others were not?
"That seems like quite a long time. What exactly… happened?"
"The short answer is that a vat of ancient marking solution and I got much too far acquainted. Non-toxic, thankfully, but extremely penetrative. I'll have to wait for many, many layers of skin to shed."
