The twitch in the Yurakk warrior's left calf happened on a morning that had not been scheduled to be different from any other.
It was part of why Rakh'ash'tha almost missed it.
She had been running the same sequence for eleven days: pressure points along the spine, muscle response checks at the hips, knees, ankles, the same order each time. Any change would be a change against a known baseline rather than against memory.
The left foot's sole had produced nothing for eleven days. On the twelfth, when she applied pressure, the calf moved.
Small. A contraction that would have been unremarkable in anyone whose nervous system was functioning normally, the kind of reflex a healer might not even register as information.
In a limb that had produced nothing for eleven days, it was the first new fact since the injury occurred.
She did not tell the warrior immediately. She ran the rest of the sequence first, in case the change was isolated to that one point.
