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"Where are we going to find a therapist who can hear this story?"

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"... Good point. Hey, Cypress, can you hire a therapist who's allowed to know all of this stuff?"

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"Uh. Maybe? But they'd almost certainly be thrown for a loop by the lack of daemons."

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"Reading daemon behavior is a huge part of therapy on Chamomile," confirms Ice.

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"I wonder how many summons it would take to find a therapist daeva or something."

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"A lot, I'd bet. Possibly not worth the trouble. And I genuinely doubt that any members of the colony are therapists. They'd be used to not working with daemons, even if they have them now. I could always ask, I suppose."

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"Would the colonials be too - Kystley for Prime to have good rapport with them, though?"

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"... Probably. Or it could help? I - don't know, really."

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"You'd know better than we would, so that's probably going to add up to 'no clue'. Anyway, therapy takes ages to work. We would still be into the period where it was time to deploy drastic solutions for Spring."

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"There goes that idea."

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"We could try getting him to get a daemon."

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"Which does not lead to the same tragic mental images, I don't think Spring would harbor a particularly desperate desire to hold his soul bird, but do you think that would work faster?"
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"... Vernaia is really helpful. In general. Especially for - head stuff and emotional stability. I think it's a good idea for him to have one regardless, damn the downsides to having one, but especially for something like this."

"Aww," says Vernaia, and she nuzzles him. "Thanks."

"Anytime."
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"Well, we can suggest it. But I don't see him being keen."

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"No," sighs Cypress. "Probably not."

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"It's not like you guys are only giving out tickets to Alethia on a limited basis, hundredth person to walk through the Belfry gets one, etcetera, he'd have one already if the idea appealed."

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"I - it's sort of frustrating that none of my alts believe me that it's worth it."

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"Um. Sorry? I mean, I believe that you think it's worth it, but I'm not - hopping aboard that train."

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"Yes." Sigh. "I know."

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"I'm tempted? I'll do it if we get desperate about Spring, anyway, and think the alethiometer could come up with something if it looked at me. But this isn't because I think it would be a good Therapy Animal, I just know that Aldaras would be happy to snuggle it and I don't expect it to interfere all that much with my daily life."

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Cypress is kind enough to not voice his opinion of this sentiment out loud.

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"... Sorry?" repeats Max, eyeing Cypress.

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"It's fine," he sighs.

"... Cypress is easily the most emotionally stable of all of the Adarins," says Vernaia. "Just saying."

He pets her.
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"Max doesn't have emotional stability problems. ...Do you?"

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"I feel pretty emotionally stable? I mean, the dragon thing's still sort of distressing, But that's understandable. I'm not going to throw up walls of sarcasm or be a huge grump or act at all like Prime because of it, it just sucks. Um. I don't know, is there an - emotional stability test?"

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