"I can help you study," she says immediately. "If there are any books or... or any kind of historical research site or anything that hasn't been looked at yet because there hasn't been time or resources, I can help. Not for myself - I can deal with this in my hand, if I must - but no one should have to have a foreign object lodged in their chest with no hope of removing it."

She straightens a little, frowning at the mention of the Fade. "I'd never heard of the Fade and would have told you no if you'd asked me this when I'd first arrived. But if I came in through the Fade, and all magic here is connected to it, then I suppose the only logical conclusion is that my magic is being filtered through the Fade, if nothing else. I'd need to research it more to say for sure, but considering how muddied my spells have been, that's the only thing I'd been able to think of."