Well, I am a healer. [Her hands relax, finding no purchase on anything solid nearby and holding each other instead.] I've spent my life learning how to be one. But-

[It isn't a job, is it? Not the way those other words are. It's a responsibility, yes, one wholly different from both job and duty.]

When you...when you say it, that way, it doesn't sound- lesser. Separate and unrefined. [His analysis is so disarming it pushes aside her anger for the moment.]

My greatest responsibility is to the well-being of the people around me. All of them.