“You’ll probably need to stay off that ankle for a day or so. In the meantime, I was thinking about reaching out to MaryJo Gaffney, the artist who had the first encounter with our healer. And maybe there’s someone in Incline Village who remembers the incident with the injured skier and might be able to point us in the right direction to find him, if only to give us a name.”
Clearly, she wasn’t about to let Jason’s injury sideline the two of them. And unfortunately, there wasn’t much he could say to dissuade her. It wasn’t as though he could tell her that he’d been tasked with finding a healer, and since she herself was one, there didn’t seem to be any reason to continue their search.
No, that sort of comment would go over like a ton of bricks.
“That sounds like a good idea,” he said, si
