Sixteenth Gate

[forsometimenow]

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dr. Keller, though Jennifer is fine, too. Since my friend Dr. Beckett left last month, I've been put in charge of the medical clinic in town, but we're very short-handed. If anybody is willing, I would be deeply grateful for your help.

This brings me to my second point- considering the bumps and scrapes we get and the danger we seem to get regularly thrown into, I'm thinking it would be a good time to offer first aid lessons- I've taught a few people one-on-one, but I'm thinking bigger this time. Huge disasters on the magnitude of what happened last month don't seem to happen often, but when they do, it would be an immense help to have more hands ready to treat the injured.

[She ends it there, because talking to people is still difficult, but she knows she's not going to get any better by hiding away.]

[Dictated]

[lightbranded]

 It is summer again already.

[Will sounds thoughtful and a little nostalgic today.]

At home, this used to be the time of year when all of my brothers and sisters were home. We helped with the yardwork and the garden.  And I went fishing and camping with my brothers a lot.

Sometimes I went out on bike rides to visit all the old churches around.  [A thoughtful pause.] There were rather a lot of them.  I had quite the collection of brass rubbings at home.

I wonder.... It might be fun to go out on a little adventure like that.  Nothing dangerous, like these expeditions I hear about.  Just some exploration and fun.