Northstar Vale I need to spin my wheels

I’ll work on it, Towhee said with a chuckle. Maybe I’ll come up with something by our next visit.

The conversation took a more serious turn the following moment, when Fennec asked her about her history as a healer. She mentioned a name Towhee hadn’t thought of in a while. She wondered how Eljay was doing these days but gently set that thought aside to focus on her daughter’s inquiry.

I’ve always thought of you as a competent healer, I think, Towhee said, although she’d now lived long enough that even recent memories sometimes had a tendency to blur in her mind. There’s always been some stiff competition, though, she said frankly, thinking now of Aquene.

Maybe that wasn’t what Fen wanted to hear, though maybe it was what she needed? Towhee looked closely at her face, though she didn’t read anything definitive there.

I guess ‘competition’ isn’t a good word to use, though. There can never been too many healers, can there? If it’s meaningful work for you, you should keep doing it, regardless. But if you’re not feeling called to it, that’s fine too. We can always change our minds. Or our careers. She paused, lips curling. Or our marriages. Hell, our entire lives…