“Whether you look at Ryla’s life force back when I had yet to start treating her or when I’ll be one step from curing her, the appearance of her life force will be the same since the programming of her Harmonizer hasn’t changed.

“Yet just because the shape of her life force is fixed, it doesn’t mean that the condition of her life force is fixed as well. You must remember that the Harmonizer is no cure.

“It’s just a means to rearrange a Fallen life force into a preset shape, no matter how much resistance the life force offers to the process or how stretched or compressed the various parts must be to match the shape programmed into the Harmonizer.

“It’s the reason the moment Ryla steps outside the geyser, she reverts into a Fallen Balor. Her Fomor life force is like a suitcase filled to the brim with unfolded clothes that you closed by force.

“When you open it, the pressure is gone and the clothes spill out of the suitcase.” Quylla looked at her audience, and everyone nodded for her to continue.

“My treatment consists of altering Ryla’s Fallen life force so that it offers less resistance to the Harmonizer and folds into a stable form. The closer I get to a cure, the longer she retains her unfallen Fomor state away from a geyser.”

“How much did my life force change?” Ryla had no interest in the how or why. She just wanted an answer to her questions.