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Fox: Hey, checking in. :)
Dandelion: Hello! It's good to hear from you. I'm doing well, spending some quality time with Hearth right now. How are you?
Fox: I am doing pretty well! Today I mostly took naps in various forms. It's pretty interesting to sleep different ways actually. How's Hearth?
Dandelion: She's good! A slow week at work, so I've been welcome to come and watch. And I've been cooking dinner with her while I'm staying over with her. While I love my cadre, having a quieter place to sleep for a couple of nights has been nice. What forms did you sleep in?
Fox: what does she do again? I'm sometimes bad at remembering people's jobs. I do like cooking though, it's nice. I was a cat and a hummingbird and of course a fox.
Dandelion: Hearth restores and helps preserve artwork for a living. I don't think I've ever learned what you do, professionally. Besides being a healer and expert on shapeshifting.
Fox: oh i don't
sometimes I do some art but I don't really do anything like that
Dandelion: That's alright, what you do for the Assembly is amazing work in itself. And clearly you're a very good healer. I don't remember the last time I felt so well as after you took care of me, in the lair.
Fox: I don't really place any value on making money. I did when I was younger. Before. It's all bits of the Lie and it's sort of antithetical to my being at this point. And oh yes I'd be happy to look after you regularly. Your pancreas is cranky.
Dandelion: Thank you for the offer. I don't know how I'd feel about having a healer looking after me regularly, though. I know I'm sick, I know it's bad. But I don't want to rely on magic to keep myself going.
Fox: I assumed that was probably the case. I have a different view on it, but it's your choice, not mine.
Dandelion: There's a few who would tell me it's absolutely the wrong choice. Or who'd argue that I shouldn't get a say in the matter.
Fox: so here's the thing: they're assholes, and I'll kick them in the junk.
but also, you are the sovereign ruler of the universe that is your body. I can have a differing opinion on what you should or shouldn't do, but it doesn't fucking matter. You don't get to tell me I can't be a hummingbird as long as me being a hummingbird doesn't hurt someone else, and I don't get to tell you that you HAVE to let me balance your bodily functions. That's your choice.
personally, I don't see any difference between being reliant on a doctor who prescribes you metformin and a Life Master who corrects your pancreatic function, except in efficacy. You're doing the same thing. You're addressing the problem by consulting a professional who prescribes a course of treatment. The difference is that I prescribe Supernal remedies, and the doctor prescribes remedies of the Lie.
I don't have to agree with your choice to respect it. And any Magus who doesn't respect it is not a healer. They're an abuser with access to power they should not have.
Dandelion: Thank you for that perspective, Fox. I may ask you to kick some people in the junk for me at some point.
Fox: in the rat warren I gave you emergency treatment, which was my only right and responsibility.
I made sure I could get you out alive. That's it. That's the only time I feel I get to make that decision for you.
gladly. I have no patience for people who don't understand that everyone is the ruler of their own bodily universe.
Dandelion: I'm hoping not to have too many more emergencies. I am back to taking my medications as prescribed, and everything seems to be alright.
Fox: good!
Dandelion: Either way, I feel good knowing that there's smart, caring people like you around. Even when I am done, the city will endure.
Fox: thank you. :) and please don't count out for a while yet, I don't think your kids are ready for you to shuffle off
Dandelion: Will they ever be? I'm not certain of that. It seems that whatever happens, I'll be in the middle of something, halfway through teaching someone.
Fox: I used to think that "only the good die young" was an imprecation against aging, but it's more that no matter how old you are, you're always too young when you're loved
Dandelion: That's accurate. I feel like I'm "too old to rock'n'roll, too young to die". But there's still things I can help with, and so I will.
Fox: I suppose that's all a matter of perspective but you definitely can hold your own, so keep holding it. 😁
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