"You must have grown very close during your ordeal. It seems to me you're all healthy, well-adjusted ladies remaining positive in the face of adversity. But, my manners. I am Doctor Heinfroth."<br/>Curious were the eyes reading the line of them like sheet music, bounding up and down the details of each woman in turn, clear around the table to where Corinne joined her.<br/><br/>"Hannah and Eloise are here," said Zoe. "And the others, though I have not yet laid eyes on them. If we stay the night, Doctor Blanche says they will be ready to receive visitors in the morning."<br/>Beneath the table, Zoe's hand found Corinne's. She reminded herself, searching out a comfortable and relaxed twine, how forward they had been together. It came to her in a flush of heat, and they were as young lovers in Heinfroth's lavish court, unable to escape the many eyes around the table.<br/><br/>"Doctor Blanche is treating them," said Heinfroth. "A Ms. La Berche has badly broken her leg, and Ms. Bordeaux has lost blood. There was an episode in the night most concerning, with accusations of witchcraft and a tribal divide between the ladies. Doctor Blanche is especially well learned in different sorts of mania, and will counsel them through their grief."<br/><br/>"Doctor Noire is also available to attend to various causes of melancholy. My good friend, Doctor Rehner, provides for the psychotically violent and is shocked by nothing. My own work, I'm afraid, would be of little interest to you or use to your predicament. But you are guests in my home, until we can fulfill a moral obligation to deliver you back to civilization."<br/>Medb and Faelyn, Heinfroth segregated from that statement. There was a dim recognition of those two, and Heinfroth seemed prepared for either to make some request of her, here in so rare an audience.<br/><br/>"Have you heard the water running through the pipes?" Zoe asked. "And there is a motor lift which operates from one floor to the next. It is a marvelous place. Doctor Heinfroth has extended permission for me to peek in the library, if time allows."<br/><br/>"I stand to learn much more from you, than you I," said Heinfroth. "I have not been inland since... shortly after the annex of Gundarak. Now I meet such forward-thinking Dementlieuese people, I wonder if the realm is ready for a sister hospital- something more homely than the storming sea. How would you advise me on growing our operations to the coast of enlightenment?"