why would you have a whole page debating how you gonna help someone if in the end you just got the spell for it ? i wouldn't call this lazy writing at this point just plain stupid
what if, and take it with a grain of salt, he basically staged this whole scene to put the kiss in there + he personally recommended her for the role as an evil mastermind plan
let us talk about the repercussions of a foodless diet while also loosing vital resources like blood and having enough energy left to heal up wounds in the form of sealing back body parts that fell appart, I CALL BS
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