The deepest main chamber of the ruins smelled the same as always. Ancient stone and the residual energy of the statues with their reinserted hearts, which now made the entire structure glow in a way that had no equivalent in standard crystal architecture.
The two crystallized figures in their positions were exactly as they had been on every previous visit, with the difference that this time Ren hadn’t come to just practice mapping or evaluate.
He had come to attempt something larger.
That was what he had decided while walking here, with a certainty that had started developing cracks now that the chamber was in front of him and the two figures were in it and the width between the theory of what he could do and the practice of actually doing it had become so short.
He had to try if he ever wanted to resolve those deeper problems.
’But if I manage to bring them back,’ he thought, ’it might end being something bad regardless...’
That was the part he had been thinking subconsciously and had led to avoid trying and postpone for months... Fear leading to procrastination, because it was too uncomfortable to face the results of that possibility. If he succeeded in reversing the crystallization of these two statues, they would be people. But people who had been this way for too long. People who now might simply be bodies without life despite everything, the biological systems preserved in the crystal structure but no longer having whatever made a person a person.
It was a huge effort... And even then, he didn’t know what he would find on the other side of the finished work.
But he had to try...
He began.
The mapping starting from the little broken finger was always the first step. Not because it was the most important but because it was the point of lowest complexity in the system and the one he remembered best from previous attempts, it consumed less active memory than the rest, which left more available for what came after.
It also served as a warm-up, the way reading the first page of a text calibrated the mind before committing to the full body of it.
The male statue was the natural first subject. The logic of saving women and children first was apparently something he still defaulted to without deciding to.
Ren continued. The little finger, the hand, the wrist, the forearm, the elbow with its articular complexity, a joint where multiple systems intersected and where the connections between bone and mana pathway were denser than in the straight sections.
Then the full arm was finished.
If the elbow was a place where the density of connections increased in a way that required slightly more time than he had calculated... The shoulder was worse, the mana circulation system branched wildly toward the torso, but despite these added complexities he still felt like he had significant capacity remaining.
The system was responding.
He kept going.
The neck, part of the head, the upper spine in its full complexity.
Then the torso downward, ribs, sternum.
He had reached the sternum and stopped.


’Unless...’
’The legs and arms can be reattached by a healer.’
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