"You simply hold it in your hands... Well that's the easy part. The hard part is keeping your grip on it once the pain gets to you... It should take maybe five minutes. You're lucky, because I've done this before and can make the process much faster. Less powerful or more inexperienced wizards could do this in two hours, at minimum without risking the lives of either the caster or subject of the spell."
Sending a thread of magic into the queen, he cast a spell to help her ease the pain she would experience. Whereas before it would feel like someone was flaying her skin off while she constantly regrew it, now it would feel more like a sporadic stab of pain.