"You can heal any injury?" It's almost impossible to imagine the value of such a skill on the battlefield. It's hard for Qi Yan not to think of everyone she's loved who has died through violence. If worlds exist where fatal injuries can be swiftly healed, it seems a bitter fate that hers is not one.

"It is an injury, in a way, although likely beyond your reach by now. I nearly died as a child, and the imperial doctors tell me my body has never fully recovered." She is thinking of Xiao-Die when she says, "What about injuries of the mind?"