jiaoqiu catch-all

[peripheries]

 

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[fried]

I am a healer.

[ he corrects, but there's no heat to it. it's just a part of his identity. ]

... And yes. That is always how it's been. It's a healer's duty to make their soldiers fit to march again.

[peripheries]

Did it bother you? To heal soldiers so they can fight again, only to have to heal them once more?

[He moves his hand in a circular gesture indicating the circular nature of it all.]

[fried]

[ his tail swishes back and forth. ]

I retired because it began to feel useless. Like rescuing a fish from a boiling cauldron, only to watch it fight my hands to dive right back in.

[ so - yeah. it bothered him. ]

[peripheries]

After you retired... what did you do? What sort of life were you able to find?

[What does someone who lived through war do once they break the cycle?]

[fried]

I worked at a restaurant for a time.

[ hums. ]

But I was approached by my old master not long after, who told me there was a woman in need of my help. I soon thereafter became the right hand to General Feixiao.

[ so - the answer is he didn't break the cycle. he wandered right back into it. ]

[peripheries]

A restaurant?

[What. Returning to war seems more logical than that!]

Were you any good at it?

[fried]

I'd like to think so. The tradition I follow is heavily based on treating cuisine as medicine, so naturally, the food I make must taste good.

[peripheries]

Huh.

[He can see that, in a way.]

But it wasn't enough in the end?

[fried]

It would have been, if Feixiao hadn't needed me to cure her.