“So what would you have done in this situation, Ernest? What? Wouldn’t have been there in the first place? Yeah, yeah, I know. Facile answer. You disappoint me. Tell me, Ernest, if you wouldn’t have been there, where would you have been? Back in your lab? Or in the library? You’d be safe. Proper and comfortable. But where would the patient be? Long gone, that’s where! Just like Belle’s twenty therapists before me—they all took the safe route, too. But I’m a different kind of therapist. A saver of lost souls. I refuse to quit on a patient. I will break my neck, I’ll put my ass on the line, I’ll
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