Then tear up the check and don't tell me. I'm not taking it back.

[ ... ]

I don't want to seem as if I'm rejecting your kindness. I do appreciate it. It just doesn't feel right, to accept so much from you when I think many of the city's healers would offer their services for free.

Please call me again right away if anything happens in the future, to you or Baren. I'll be happy to help.

It's not kindness. That's the cost of what the surgery would have been. Though you didn't really clear up his skin...

[hm. maybe he should ask for it back?


nah.]

I'll keep your number. Thanks.

I'm sorry about that. My spells aren't as powerful when my energy is depleted...

[ And as Zoro will have seen, just using Ishtar was enough to nearly wipe him out. ]

It's no problem. ... thank you for keeping an eye on Baren.

Don't thank me. It's what I promised him.

I'll see you around. Do what you want with the check. Thanks, again.

... anytime.