"Right. What's that saying? Good medicine is bitter?" Matt muses. He notices the slightly better scent from the new leaf and breathes a little easier.

A healer, not a leader, would likely be someone who could speak accurately to the nature of the Corsairs. "I'm thinking of joining the Corsairs properly; I'm not half bad at information collection. But I wasn't sure how uh... Dedicated they are to taking an ethical approach to the rebellion. Not to mention how they would receive a blind man."