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"Well, I think that, what she did was total bullshit," Birk had heard stories about her, not the actual practice. Plus, why play with perfectly good guts, wondering, what their alignment might mean at a place, where food was already scarce? Chances were that, while you stood over them deep in thought, someone would beat a crap out of you and steal the valuable morsels. 

"Though she did a good job at scaring her relatives. And... though I am a very, very practical and rational man to the core - I do think that there was some truth in what she did. In small amounts though," he shrugged. "What have you learned about medicine so far?"