#i'm not a healer he adamantly declares

[crosaidi]

paerin's gruff and can be a curmudgeon, but he is, by nature, a caregiver. he actually really likes his role as a battle healer of sorts, a lot more than he'd readily admit. he'll take care of people when they're sick or injured, he'll fuss over them, and he's not a priest or a cleric by any means but he's capable, especially out in the field.

and he likes it. finds a deep satisfaction in it, finds that he's kind of good at it despite having no bedside manner. he wonders sometimes, honestly, if that's where life would've taken him if he hadn't lived it by the sword, but that's the way it went and that's the way it is.