Once everyone has returned and settled themselves around the fire again I introduce myself to the newcomer. "I am Hypatia." Then I look around at my new/old friends and add with a bit of a scowl, "Perhaps it is not the best idea for everone to go running off one at a time into the unknown. We should decide and soon, who goes and who stays. Who takes the point and who brings up the rear of our little procession. As the healer I should perhaps be in the middle, the easier to reach anyone in need of healing."
Goodness but I sound like a mother hen, I think to myself, yet someone has to apply a little common sense to this situation.
