Challenge #04574-L190: Tools of the Trade

Barber/Doctor Tynmalin has handled plenty of sicknesses, carefully studying the humors of her patients and applying sharp things when needed. However this BD comes upon a delicate case of separating two conjoined twins which will test her finesse and medical/cutting prowess to the limit. -- Anon Guest

Some things are healed with a spell or a prayer. For the outliers in which power cannot help, there is surgery. A job for Barbers once upon an era past. Thus, the League of Barbers insisted on educating their alumni in various methods of medicine.

Time changed things in favour of medicine, and the League changed its name to the League of Doctors... who insisted the alumni also learn how to give their clients a very good shave. They may not ever use that knowledge, but they knew it all the same.

Tynmalin was one of the ones who were called when magic failed, or couldn't do anything to help a patient.

She was called for the difficult births. For the newborns with murmuring heartbeats, for the little ones with their insides creeping into places where those organs should not go. She was called for the dire cases, because she was the best. Everyone knew that she had the skills to work miracles.

This was a difficult birth, requiring surgical extraction, because the twins were intertwined. Not tangled. Joined. Two little bodies intermeshed in the womb. Tynmalin's job was complicated to say the least of things.

A Sanguimancer and an Osteomancer both created the illusory maps of the twins' body. Where and how they were joined and which organs were shared. It was possible to bring them to a state of being two bodies. They could have independence from each other.

It would take hours, and magic to keep the babies insensate and unaware. And Tynmalin's most special obsidian blades in combination with the special spectacles. At least the Sanguimancers could keep the twins' blood where it belonged.

They would need mageworkers who could shape flesh, to help their segregated bodies grow even matches from the deformed limbs that were the result of their tangle. They could even make sure that there were minimal scars.

Tynmalin did not demand payment for her service. Her reward was knowing that three people - two of them brand new - had a better chance.

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