Chakra Cost: Fantasy

Healing Priya's daughter of chickenpox sent Anjali back to her bed for a week, and the stupid woman wouldn't even agree to vaccinate her daughter and her other children to keep this from happening again. She did seem properly grateful, though--at least she showed up at the door twice a day with daal and chapatis for Anjali's family, and she sent her healthy daughter with chai in the afternoon. She had promised to get her husband to write off the balance owed to his shop for the last two weeks of vegetables, too, so there was that. With Neelam having less hours training the phone bank workers, every bit saved was good. Anjali hoped Neelam would be sent to move soon again, though. She had never even met Priya before, but the woman knew that Anjali had the touch.


Inspiration: Thinking of all the different types of protagonists I've written--male and female, gay, straight, and transgender, black and white and other--realized I hadn't written a disabled one yet. Doing it right and in the right kind of story could be a good challenge.
Story potential: High.
Notes: My long-form notes are in my red notebook with gold flowers, but basically, some link between magic acts (not just healing) and increased pain and disability along her spine, perhaps related to chakras, not sure if choosing chronic pain or chronic back pain and associated disc damage and weakness, but it could all link together.