Dionisia opened her mouth before promptly closing it once more. She realized that, while feminism was something she felt deeply about, it perhaps wasn't the best topic to be discussing while at work — and that was she even remembered that Mrs. Bones was not merely a woman, but a woman of immense privilege. As much as she found the older woman charming, she wasn't so comfortable broaching the topic of equal pay and blood equality with a woman she assumed associated with others who would never offer her a second glance.

"I suppose that's the price to pay for our careers," she offered as a less-risky answer. "Patients expect that we put their needs before ours — which, I suppose, is not completely untrue to the values of many healers."