And so I, Hlei, leave the ship. Continuing my quest for healing.

I go to one That Maintains. I inquire where do I enter the Hive-Home. Where do I find the healers?

This one is occupied within its role the disinfector can show the way.

I give Gratitude, and I am shown where the disinfector works.

I go and inquire, can I be shown to the healers?

There is one here returning to its Stupor-Pod Edge-Dwellers, it shall lead you on its way.

Gratitude...

I reach to communicate, I am here to take the role of a healer. I am here to record the role and add decontamition to it...

I am shown to the least complete of the healer's pods, I am to update that one, and follow in their roles.

And so I pursue healing...

One comes seeking healing,

This healer examines it what should I...

Another comes over maintenance, and stupor.

I understand. I have completed my roles.

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What of healing?

We have provided the healing needed.

There is another I perform maintenance, I detangle, I disinfect, And there is some repair to be done. But, it is simple removal this one will be recovered through stupor.

Here is another, and there is some repair. And we fix what we can. The rest will be recovered with stupor.

...

I shall eat, I shall continue, we shall sustain our role through that, and this one will be repaired after stupor.

Is this what I seek?...

And another is repaired, more harm prevented.

And one comes for healing, he is injured losing tendrils, caught in a mechanism outside the hive. I recognize this one I search in the memories available, To perform maintenance, stop tendrils from falling...

He needs stupor, to remove what is broken, to eat rest, and heal. To repair himself. And he shall go into stupor. Another shall arise, and then this one shall fulfill more roles...

But I remember him.

He gives gratitude, for my memory of him. It matters, can he be fixed?

He can be preserved, he...

I put myself outside of this communication I need to search the role and inquire from the others.

This.. This is not healing. This Is Not Healing. There is maintenance here, prevention. But there is no healing. They return reduced shrunk... But better.

But they do not return.

Another returns in their place, what is retained? What remains? What is overwritten when they sleep?

I resume communication.

This, this is not healing. He cannot be fixed, this one can return can be repaired, with stupor, but He will not come back. Unless...

I am he, and He is loyal to his Hive-Home, to its continued process, I can not.. He will not leave, it is here that he belongs. So He shall be fixed he shall go to stupor. And my memories will resume.

But what of the memories overwritten? What of the self changed and broken in regrowth?

I appreciate that this one remembers me, that there is something here, I can preserve these memories Hlei, who heals and dwells at the edge, who decontaminates...

As a healer, Hlei cannot have Him preserve these memories to the exclusion of others, he must continue he shall be healed. Know that he has been known, and it was his decision...

I shall continue my life in my hive.

He leaves...

And another comes.