Very well, I would be an unthinkably terrible healer.

[The half-smile is worth it. Sue him for gunning for a full one.]

...For what it's worth, I think you do resent him. Not for making you live, but for leaving you. It just feels wrong to be angry — it feels ungrateful. He gave his life for you; what a miserable fraction of a creature you would have to be, to resent him after that.

But you know it was cruel of him. Because you do have it in you to resent me when I suggest I might do the very same thing.

[He squeezes his hand again, gently.]

We were never down here, Ryn, and I never saw this. No one to hear or know, if you did let yourself admit it.