Chapter 718
“Well, don’t you look happy?” Ben teased, even as Thera strongly denied it.
“Of course I’m not,” She told him, trying to control her face. “Do you really think I’d be happy just because I have an official excuse to avoid helping out at the hospital for a while? No matter how constantly draining and exhausting it is, it’s important work.”
“...I was actually assuming it was because you finally get to do a rank one quest. Something you want to get off your chest there, Thera?”
She slumped over as he asked, looking all the more tired for it. “Ben, you’re clever. Please do me a favour and put that freaky brain of yours to work figuring out how to awaken more life and light mages.”
“Pretty sure you don’t ask for favours while calling someone's brain freaky.”
“Let me try again. Using your completely normal, not at all unnatural mind, please save me by awakening more of the planet's healers.”
“Somehow the lack of sincerity hurts even more, but what’s the problem currently? Weren’t the mana bracelets I’d distributed to everyone helping?”
“Mmh, they were and they are but this work is never ending,” She complained. “Everyone is still getting hurt all of the time to the point that any day I need for something else, everyone I work with ends up on the edge of tears with how much more that means they’re all going to have to do and as handy as your new tool is, the fact that it hurts to use doesn’t exactly leave it as an enjoyable option no matter how much it helps. It feels like I’m drowning every time I go off to work.”
“Mmh, kind of sounds like you guys need to unionize.”