Our best interests — to which he's unwilling to sign his name, and has apparently sworn you to secrecy.
[ he sounds exactly as skeptical as you'd think. takes it (and his eyebrows) down a notch, to continue: ]
I'm not wholly opposed. Masks seem a basic precaution, [ miasma! ] And we've funds for bucking the wash when this is done. But if you go into Kirkwall today, you will hear half a dozen folk remedies, and any as plausible.
Those which we choose to employ are a gamble not of coin, but of the trust placed in us. If you're told to carry a rabbit's foot, and you still take with fever, will you listen when told not to go out?
no subject
[ he sounds exactly as skeptical as you'd think. takes it (and his eyebrows) down a notch, to continue: ]
I'm not wholly opposed. Masks seem a basic precaution, [ miasma! ] And we've funds for bucking the wash when this is done. But if you go into Kirkwall today, you will hear half a dozen folk remedies, and any as plausible.
Those which we choose to employ are a gamble not of coin, but of the trust placed in us. If you're told to carry a rabbit's foot, and you still take with fever, will you listen when told not to go out?