Maomao quietly reentered the acupuncturist 's room and Syra 's face wasn 't nearly so scrunched from pain. Handing the supplies to Rui she watched closely as he carefully dabbed it around the needles, 'This liniment can be put on 2-3x a day, put it on, let it dry, and repeat until it 's tingling. Usually 2-3 applications will do it. Do NOT trap it under a wrap though, this liniment needs to breathe otherwise it will begin to burn her skin. '

Amir nodded quite seriously, 'We usually wrap sprained ankles, are you suggesting we don 't this time? '

'As you can see the swelling is going down already, ' the old man observed.

Maomao shot forward, 'Wha- HOW!? '

Indeed the ankle was slowly but visually deflating in front of them. The acupuncturist looked rather pleased with himself. 'Would you like the short explanation or the long one? '

Ears up, tail up, and all sparkles, Amir and Syra had never seen the cat so excited.

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