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"Peppa, your tongue is bleeding!" Izumi whisper-shouts. In an instant, she's at Peppa's side. She inspects her cousin's mouth, and wipes at some blood with a materialized handkerchief.
Peppa thumbs her nose. "Eh, I bit it a few times but I managed to power through that well enough, heh heh- hack, cough cough, rasp!" Some blood got in her throat, which was already irritated, and not at all helped by the splintered cough drop!
Izumi winces, and gets some gloves on. Using water magic, which was somehow distinct from materialization, she gets some chilled water for her cousin to rinse and clear her throat. Then, she commands, "Open wide, I'm gonna put pressure on your tongue for a bit."
The proud girl goes to wave off her cousin's mother henning, but relents under her cousin's severe gaze and opens her mouth obediently.
It's uncomfortable for a moment and her gagging starts up again, but then, with just a light dose of healing energy from Izumi's fingertips, Peppa's tongue, which would have been sore for the day, is good as new. It even smoothed over the afterburn in her throat!
"All better?" Izzy asks, a smile proudly displayed on her face.
Peppa returns it, gratefully! "Yeah, thanks!"
"Good." Izumi turns back to resume her studies.
Peppa observes her cousin, so focused on the material. And after a bit, Izzy finishes a section, and flips to the back of the book to grade herself. The intensity in her eyes has returned, and Peppa doesn't like it.
"You know," Peppa cuts in, "This kinda takes me back!"
Izumi looks up from the answer key. "Hm?"
Keep it up! "What we would get up to when we were little," she explains. "When it wasn't sparring, it was hide and seek, and flying, and make-believe, and playing doctor."
Izzy smirks, "I could barely keep up with you two back then."
"Of course you could, your legs were longer!" They laugh. "Still, the playing doctor part, like, whenever me and Gohan got hurt, you would be there to help us and calm us down when we were crying, and help the pain go away with magic spells."
"I don't think 'pain, pain, go away' was an actual magic spell."
"We all thought it was, so it worked kinda. But then you learned how to do healing magic for real!"
She shrugs. "Sometimes you two would get knocked out, hit your heads on a tree or rock, or the ground. You, you would dive right at the ground, thinking you could punch through it."
"I can drill through the ground now-"
"Yeah yeah, so I didn't want to be unable to help you when something immediate was needed."
Peppa scoffs. "How selfish, taking it upon yourself to learn magic because your cousins worried you with our rough-housing and liability to not wake up again... and then you'd get blamed for it!"
Izzy sniffs. "As a princess, I have a reputation to maintain, and I'll not have you and Gohan sully it with your monkeyshines." She sticks her tongue out. "And we all got blamed for it anyway!"
Peppa grins. "Cuz Bro's the snitchiest snitch who ever snitched!"
