Day 50
Standard Year 1393

Dutiful Passage
Lytaxin Orbit

In which Ren Zel consults a Healer.

There’s a lot going on under the surface in this chapter, I feel.

It’s been two, three years since the unhappy run of events that ended with Ren Zel being offered a place on Dutiful Passage. Being used to living in a world without Healers, it hadn’t occurred to me until Lina brought it up that there was anything unusual about him still being haunted by those events, but of course among Liadens – and especially in a community such as the Passage which looks after its own and is, as Lina mentions, well supplied with proficient Healers – it would not be usual for a person to still be afflicted after so long.

(I wonder if the authors started with the fact of Ren Zel still being haunted by his past, and from there followed the implication that something about him impeded his healing, or started with the fact of him possessing a natural shield, and from there followed the consequence that his healing would be thus impaired.)