Addressed to the Admiral but viewable to all

[wandthief]

Dear Admiral, I wish to be sent back to my world.

People here are quick to threaten and attack but if I offer help of any form - and I have numerous times - they either reject it or ignore it. I understand about learning patience but they prefer others suffer prolonged illness or injury instead of taking some extra help? Isn't that just simple cruelty?

I am sure you can pick and choose what powers to return to me. If I could perform simple healing spells and make healing potions then I feel I could be of a great help to the overstressed infirmary staff. However, as they are all ignoring me - unless it is to insult or threaten - then I come directly to you, since I am currently wardenless.

If the answer is no then you, dear Admiral, are as cruel as the rest and do like to see people suffering here. That would not surprise many of us here.

So, I wish my basic healing powers returned or send me back to my home.

I completely understand that this is not an ultimatum considering you will likely say NO to both - but then they had better not expect any sympathy from me if they complain again that people are hurt and dying and they can't cope when it can be fixed more easily in the aftermath with a little magic.

Comments

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I do not mean to be....

It is more difficult to change a hundred years of thinking a certain way than I had hoped. I do want to do the right thing here.

Whether you believe me or not.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Then maybe you need to spend less time trying to push your powers on us when we're just fine without them, and more time trying to be less patronising.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I am only trying to help in the way that would most benefit others.

...I'm fairly sure swing's still taking out his 'dammit hix' out on him. :/

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

In your opinion. As a wizard.

Gellert isn't expecting Swing to be nice at all. XD

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

They take help from other wizards and magical people.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

But you insisting we need it, and denying you the ability to do so is cruel is patronising. It's assuming that regular medicine isn't good enough, because us non-magical types couldn't possibly come up with something which works well enough, could we?

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

But it doesn't work as well. It is slow and people suffer.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

And yet, we've been doing fine with it for centuries.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I'm sure people have been dying and suffering for longer too.

By cruelty I mean this persistance to let those people suffer.

If people want to refuse my direct help then that is their choice. I only wish to have the chance to offer my help to those who do not want to prolong their injuries.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

You're still making patronising assumptions that whatever you can offer is just as reliable, trustworthy and useful as that of Roundworld medicine.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Nothing is a perfect solution - but denying offers of assistance in any form is foolish to the extreme.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Not when that assistance isn't needed.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

So you do not notice the emergencies that do crop up? They do need help sometimes.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Only in the form of extra hands, not extra magic.