'I admire charitable people,' she says, thinking back to Cardalek. Of course, one had to have sufficient funds to make the charity worthwhile, and that's going to be the sticking point for him here, she suspects. It looks like he's already finding a way around it.

'We're all under contract to help, one way or another, and I don't think your way is any less valuable than someone who goes out to fight the monsters here. I might not be a spiritual person myself, but you don't stand on a ship under fire and not see what it means to others. From what I've been told, this town badly needs people with your skills.'