The Midwife's Wards

Well, Phoebe reacted predictably. While she went off on her rather epic rant about how she was best suited to this task—it was really rather well done, if a bit overly dramatic—Loren just stayed silent. Although he expected that she might respond in this manner, that didn’t mean he was the best person to unload it on. In fact, in this case, he was on the healer’s side. When she was finally finished, he spoke His voice came out low, and if not soothing, at least neutral. ”I don’t think anyone is better suited to this task. A fact I told Wessex, in addition to telling her I think ripping children from their families for expediency’s sake is a terrible precedent and a harmful act. However, I’m not sure that making that declaration is going to move Wessex. I’ll pass it along if you really want, however.” It was just a fact: the queen probably wasn’t going to care about Phoebe’s feelings on the matter unless the healer could indeed demonstrate the Ascended would have no additional problems during LongNight. LOREN Not quite an open book