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[Kratos may have seen this woman at the Healers' Guild. She's smiling pleasantly.]

You're the one Professor Sage browbeat into helping out regularly, aren't you?

Is it something you're inclined to do even without her authority?

[Genuine curiosity, not making a point.]

[This is the second unsolicited call he's had from a kedan on an apparently random topic. Hmh.]

Perhaps. Why?

[His expression, in contrast, is impassively flat.]

[Suhiet tilts her head a little; the iridescent scales along her jaw, nearly flesh-tone, shimmer in the light.]

Even the Foreigners with the longest sojourns here eventually return to their homes. It would be a shame to lose your talents only because Professor Sage was taken back.

Would you be amenable to formalizing something more long-term?

You want me to enter into a contract?

[This isn't something he expected.]

Something like that.

[It isn't necessarily what she would have called it, but the term more or less works.]

Essentially, your help is too valuable to risk losing for anything but your own departure.

I don't intend to enter into anything binding.

[Nothing that's held by someone else, at any rate. He's had a few too many experiences with pacts and promises.]

Professor Sage's presence doesn't determine whether I help those in need.

[...that's a little strange, but hardly the oddest foible she's seen a Foreigner have.]

That's all I wanted to be sure of. Thank you.

[A brief pause.]

Are you... content?

[He pauses. Narrows his eyes.]

Why are you asking me this?

[Everyone thinks she's so shady. She's blaming Tu Yunxu, frankly. He's left a reputation a mile wide.]

Are you unaccustomed to co-workers inquiring after your well-being?

I have a vested interest in keeping the people of the Healers' Guild happy. So does Professor Sage.

Yes.

[He has to sigh, at that last.]

Do not make me meet you for tea every week.

I can't say I think much of where you've worked before, then.

[Wherever that was. Whatever a man such as this did in his world.]

[With something like humor:]

Shall I limit it to every month?

[She has no idea, and Kratos has no intention of enlightening her.]

Preferably not. Is there anything else you expect from me?

[That's fine. She's not currently his healer, after all. Let Raine handle the man.]

I... believe that's all.

Do take care of yourself.

Hm.

[He shuts off the feed.]

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