What It Does
The wound, held in the light — the light is the answer, not the question, and the answer is the whole argument, and the wound is the one who is closed. It is the light school's signature in a single breath: the healing does not cost a reagent, the healing costs the breath, and the breath is the one the body has to give back.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Light · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The hand holds the light a beat too long, and the light keeps the tension — the healing lands on the one who is already whole, and the one who is already whole is the one who was already the wound.
In Stories
The journeyman's light spell; the one the camp casts when the wound is the argument and the answer is the one who has to close it.
The door's scale anchor is Luminary — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.