Lewin glared at Anastasia.<span style="color: #808040">"The splint is for the girl to <span style="font-style: italic">bite</span>. I am going to set the bones and knit them together - cleanly - but it will take some twenty seconds and hurt like hell."</span>he then tried to stuff the splint in the courier's mouth.<span style="color: #808040">"Bite. Hard. And brace yourself."</span>He took a deep breath, and, provided Fossil actually bit the splint, would immediately set about using some of his regained magic power to invoke the spirits of water and earth, to correctly set the bones and force them to knit together. It was a somewhat archaic healing spell, but brutally effective.