There are worse things for a Host to be than sick. Most illnesses have a cure.
[And as often as his words were practiced, sayings meant to settle an argument, logic set forth as truth, with something like satisfaction for what he believed to be their unassailable correctness, these are not those words. They are instead words of experience, personal and unforgettable. With every new wave of hosts there was a chance of something going badly, of one of them being dangerous in a way that was incurable, of losing what they could not afford to, of saving them only to have them dead days or weeks later. There was no surefire prevention for it, no way he could prevent every tragedy, but they weighed.
And so they are words weighted with a low anxiety, with known failures. Sick was nothing to that.]
But I will watch him.
[It is, at least, a concession. As if he wasn't already planning to.]
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[And as often as his words were practiced, sayings meant to settle an argument, logic set forth as truth, with something like satisfaction for what he believed to be their unassailable correctness, these are not those words. They are instead words of experience, personal and unforgettable. With every new wave of hosts there was a chance of something going badly, of one of them being dangerous in a way that was incurable, of losing what they could not afford to, of saving them only to have them dead days or weeks later. There was no surefire prevention for it, no way he could prevent every tragedy, but they weighed.
And so they are words weighted with a low anxiety, with known failures. Sick was nothing to that.]
But I will watch him.
[It is, at least, a concession. As if he wasn't already planning to.]