[ Claire has heard this now from three other men and while it never fails to aggravate her, she has conceded to one of them that she understands and she'll attempt to be more careful. Now, she supposes she has to make it two. ]

I've been told multiple times as of late [ since the rifts ] that I shouldn't take so many risks. I've agreed not to go in the woods alone anymore, and in emergencies, if someone is hurt, if it's life or death and I need to get to them because there are no magical healers close, there's this.

[ She holds out her wrist, her skin healthily tanned from spending so much time in the sun. Around her wrist is a thin, golden bracelet, which is really a bracer in disguise. Activating the magic with a touch, a faint ripple of shimmering magic appears and then fades. ]

There's an impenetrable shield around me unless something happens to the bracelet. A friend in the Free Cities made it and practically welded it to my wrist.

[ It wasn't so dramatic as that, not in any way, but she knows Hilda was prepared to insist. ]

So there, I think my tits and I should be fine, at least in a pinch.