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[lingeringhope]

[Hope's voice is clear and clipped.]

If you would like to leave a message, you may do so here. I can't promise to respond. I have many demands on my time, and this sort of thing is far down the list. Still, if you would like to, you may.

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[dedikated]

How about the next time you drag people in, you bring me some medical doctors? [ She's actually surprised how calm she manages to sound, because Hope - like all of them - is using everyone here like a puppet on a string and it brings up every prickly memory of working in The Agency.

Here's what we need you don't get a say or any information to decide! Good luck!

But there's more pressing concerns than her distaste for the Gods and desire to avoid them. Like the fact that the Clinic volunteers are too few and too underqualified for this place. ]

[lingeringhope]

I am not the one who brings you here. I have no control over who or what arrives. Has no one told you that yet?

[dedikated]

[ She's heard that, sure, but look someone needs to take the blame and, you know, gods. ]

That's a really shit kind of Godhood you've got going on.

[lingeringhope]

Let us jump ahead. You blame me for you arriving here and demand something from me, I tell you I didn't bring you here and cannot give it, you find another reason for rudeness because you need someone to blame and I am the only one who you can be certain won't kill you for it, I say something in return that you choose to misinterpret or be angry about, and the cycle continues until one of us grows irritated.

It's always the same thing from your species. Now that we've gone over all that, is there something you need that I can actually provide?

[dedikated]

[ yeah that's pretty accurate. People don't like being randomly dragged away from their lives, generally. There is a loooong silence on Kate's end before she sucks on her teeth and tries to ignore the urge to get even more angry. She kind of needs the help. ]

The clinic is understaffed and - generally - underqualified for anything serious. We've been trying to find other volunteers but- [ hey, free will and all of that. But she'll leave that thread to lie for the moment. ]

We need something. Like... [ God, what? The only thing that comes to mind is a theoretical piece of machinery Dagny tried to invent a few years ago: a rejuvination machine that would let them heal people without a healer around. But the attempts at making it were a disaster - Kate passed out trying to enchant it and when they tried to channel a healer's power into it, it sucked out so much power that the guy quit his apprenticeship. ]

Never mind. It's pointless. [ What was she thinking, trying this? ]

[lingeringhope]

I don't have the ability to bring anyone here, just as I don't have the ability to send anyone home. I bring you all back to life when you die, but beyond that I don't see what assistance I can provide.

However, if you can think of something concrete, feel free to ask for it.