“That, too, I can sympathize with—perhaps only in part, as my unit was… blessedly safe, mostly, from anything too drastic. I’ve rarely been the one to save any patients, but I oversaw the last rites of all of them. And at least one of the places I’ve come from, I fear I am one of the last.”

Hmmh. “For whatever comfort any of that is worth, anyway. … Is there anyone in particular whose memory you would like to share? So that there’s one more person who them here?”