[ This gets a small smile from Basch. ]

I am quite used to listening to pushy healers. I was in the military for a long time.

[ Was. It was a profession he had not intended to leave before he died, but like this--he was a danger to his King and to his battalion. ]

I have little dignity to begin, and you have already seen me like this. I have no objections to you finishing your work.

[ He still didn't think her merited such attention, but he knew letting a man do his work was it's own kindness. ]