A couple questions for my book

[Brandie]

I have a book that I'm currently working on. It's called "Coruld". I have the first chapter posted already, and will post more later. I am stuck on a few parts though.

Firstly, one character gets injured, he is stabbed through the foot with a dagger (Sorry for the small spoiler). I need to get a close estimate on how long it would take for such a wound to heal. I've tried looking it up but couldn't find any real information.

Secondly, another character dies at Coruld (this is going to be spoiler central so really sorry if you like my book). My problem is that I can't decide when. Should she die at age 10 or 16. She has a pivotal role as she is actually a god incarnate and when she dies, the god is released, thus destroying a town and creating a few evil mages on accident (I will not explain more on that.) This character is also very important to the main character, before and after death.

My third, and so far last, problem is the main character's "gift". Runi (yes, I will use his name) is one of the few people who have "gifts" in the world. They are often subtle and rather unique. An example is the leader of the Rogue. her Gift is the immediate understanding of any language after hearing a couple sentences. Runi's Gift is he can see undetectable patterns in his head, and easily continue this pattern. This allows him to fight quite well and helps him to invent new objects.

I can't think of a good way for this Gift to manifest itself. I have a filler in my story, but I don't like it. It doesn't fit the way I want it to. If anyone could help with either of these three problems, I would be most appreciative. Thank you.

[TundraWolf]

Wound issue: I looked around a little, the biggest thing I found was it may vary depending on health. BUT, it seems if you're fairly healthy and care for it well it would take more or less six weeks.

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Coruld's death: It depends. If you want to give the reader a more dramatic feeling, as she is so important to the main character, I recommend going with the death at 16. The negative is they could give it too much drama if written wrong.

Though if you want focus on releasing the god incarnate to be the focus more than the grief I recommend going with dying at 10.

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Runi's gift: Well as I see it you have a few options for how it comes to be:

An injection or other contamination, a bit more sci-fi style

This seems like very powerful thought, what if he had a concussion that the body managed to heal and over-heal the brain as an early teen while his brain is starting to change? And after a few months he notices his thought strength increasing.

...That's all I got... Maybe it'll inspire another idea in you.

[Ekim]

Exactly how bad is the wound; were ligaments severed that impair the ability to use the foot; were bones broken in any way; how much blade went where into the foot?

[Brandie]

Exactly how bad is the wound; were ligaments severed that impair the ability to use the foot; were bones broken in any way; how much blade went where into the foot?

Hmm.... movement is impaired in his foot. The dagger was about 1 1/2 to two inches long and went all the way through the foot. The blade went straight through and wasn't twisted when it went into the foot.

Tundra: Thank you for the advice, I will see what works best and go from there. Also, this book is set in the medieval time period. It's more fantasy than sci-fi ^_^ The head trauma might work though.... Ya, I think I can work that in well.

(And Coruld is a town, not the character just had to say *giggles)

[Ekim]

I am not sure how big your feet are, but at 6', an 1" to 1.5" would barely make it halfway through the center of my foot. Assuming the blade went all the way through the center of said foot and was twisted, causing serious injury; you would be looking at around a 6 month recovery with permanent loss of ability in the foot. Unless it gets healing help from magic.

[Brandie]

Alright. Thank you for your advice Ekim