I had plenty of appointments today. As the only healer in this town, I couldn’t just call out.
When I walked into the clinic, Carla, for the first time ever since I’d known her, gave me something of a dark look.
“Good morning, Carla,” I said.
“Yeah,” she replied.
Weird.
But I pressed on. The rest of the staff was friendlier, but each of them seemed to gossip and whisper behind my back. They all fell quiet as I turned toward them though, looking for explanation. Before I could ask, they scurried off in different directions.
By the time I walked into the office I shared with Anna, I was both exhausted and confused, entirely at my wit’s end.
“What’s going on around here?” I asked. If the employees wouldn’t talk to me, perhaps they would to Anna instead.
“I was hoping you wouldn’t noti
