It is the nature of warriors, she thinks, to create this distance when they're hurt. It doesn't deter her. "If so, than I shall accept the consequences of mine actions. But I have already seen too many warriors lost only after the battle was done." Ryja doesn't know, exactly, what he went through. But she became a healer for a nation fresh out of a thousand year war. She knows enough.

"Friends are not the cure, but they certainly help."