"Take the pills first. They should give you a boost," Oswin said.
Fay, Jenkii, and Jackson saw only advantage in swallowing the elixir first.
The change was most obvious in Jenkii and Jackson. Their meridians swelled, then tightened, as though their bodies were breathing from within.
With each pulse, imbalance and impurity were forced out through their pores in streams of turbid qi, a foul gray vapor not unlike smoke.
Fay's result was gentler. Only a faint mist clung to her skin, yet the effect was still there.
Where Jenkii and Jackson gained nearly ten percent, Fay managed barely one.
The difference lay in how Radeon had trained her. He had never allowed his disciples to cultivate wantonly.
Every part of the body was measured with care, each channel tempered in order, so that no small weakness was left behind.
