Miss Leana enhanced herself again.
A circulation spell this time. The specific enhancement that addressed the cost that sustained high-output engagement applied to the body's internal processes, not the external capability but the engine underneath it.
The essence pathways that sustained everything she was doing were running at a rate that produced internal heat and fatigue through duration alone, independent of the effort demanded by any individual exchange.
The circulation spell did not remove that cost. It managed it. Extended the window before the accumulated duration expressed itself as degradation.
She needed the window.
She had been building something since the engagement's first phase.
Not overtly. Not in a way that the demon, reading her output exchange by exchange, would have identified as a secondary construction running beneath the primary engagement.
