Rosamund nodded fervently, thinking it funny that she had been just the same. Perhaps it was having her mother a healer, too, making her feel, quite irrationally, that being chided by the school nurse was being a family disappointment.

Her smile softened at that admission, turned to truthfulness again. “Oh, no, you would be much too fair to them for them to ever hate you,” Rommy insisted seriously, and then grinned, “fearsome as you may be when your patients don’t listen to you.”

Speaking of, she was overdue to do her rounds of the ward, and see who in Artifact Incidents had not been taking the prescribed advice today.

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