“If we could fight sickness with swords, even I might take up the blade.” He sighed. “No, the fact is, paladin, that we healers like to believe that we make a difference, but when it comes to illness, the patient will usually live or die regardless of what we do. If we are lucky, we do not make it any worse. But it is a comfort to the families to know that we are there. So I will sit with this poor woman and bear witness to her fight, however it ends.”
