ok… Erika had no idea how to deal with this, there were a few diseases that could spread into a babe within their mother but not fungal particles like this, they were perfectly distributed across every drop of her blood but they weren't… doing anything?

  Erika focused her galdr again and stretched out tendrils of power grasping organs and bones and letting her see.

  She still couldn't see any poison, just fungus, nothing else… or… wait.

  The fungus was quiescent, dormant almost, but there was something in her gut, no wound or poison which left it half hidden by the fungus, like a snowstorm for her inner eyes, but there was something going on in her lower bowel. Her body's defenders were not active though, instead something was happening with her mucus glands, but that had nothing to do with the bowel.

  The blood was still filled with that damn fungus and it was nearly impossible to see past it, Erika decided she’d just get rid of it and work on whatever that was afterwards.

  Reaching her galdr out, curling it into a net like mass of tendrils she scooped a handful of the fungus…

  she scooped a handful…

  scooped!

  Ok the fungus was ignoring her galdr, the energy of her well simply phasing through it like light through a glass plane. She could feel something with her galdr tendrils, a pressure on her galdr, but it was distant, further away than it should be, or could be…

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  No… NO…

  This fungus was still alive, well obviously it was but not like that, it was a living being… a part of a distant living creature… fungus… whatever. But even that wouldn't be enough to stop her galdr, parasites and diseases were alive two, but this was not just a living thing, it was an ensouled fungus! That's why she couldn't affect it, the tiny pieces of fungus in the Vracian woman were still shielded by the soul of the main body.

  Maybe some senior vitki could do something but as far as Erika knew souls didn't dilute, distance didn't affect them, it was just as strong a defence here as at its real, main? body. But her galdr couldn't look for a partial soul, maybe a more advanced galdr could but…

  Ok so this woman had living parts of an ensouled fungus inside her, not the strangest thing she'd ever seen… or.. no yeah it was the strangest thing ok.

  But that still didn't explain why she was dying! And she was dying, her throat was closing, her heart was straining, she wasn't really asleep even, more in a semi-comatose delirium. What could be doing something like this… it wasn't poison or fungus or anything exciting, it seemed more like… more like farmers fever? When they were getting the hay in, some even called it hay fever because of that but it wasn't a disease, it was an abnormality of the blood, but it did nothing worse than make a person miserable for a few days.

  Anyone with such a terrible blood twist would die long before they became an adult… Vracian’s weren't from Midgard, they came here with the realmgate everyone knew that from a different branch of Yggdrasil. One with different hay perhaps?

  That must be it! It wasn't poison or fungus, a blood abnormality that would have killed a babe but was only triggered by entering this realm!

  A few taps and Erika purged the lower bowl of all the food within it, destroying the matter rather than helping it be absorbed into the blood. A few moments later she saw signals blazing, tides of strange fluids produced from strange glands in the brain and bowel alike began to slacken and cease, drying up even as her throat unclenched.

  Erika smiled to herself Still got it! she felt triumphant, it really was nice after so many weeks of battle to use her mind and galdr together to forge and smith life properly against.