"Back home if you die you stay dead. I'm not going to let that force me to wear the SCA," she said, dryly. "Not if it is going to stop us from helping people again."

As to the rest... She shoved the meat into the pot, as she thought. "Not sure how much help any of that would be on a mission, especially compared to what I can do on other missions, and what others could do on ones like this." Also the last time she'd tried to help at an infirmary it hadn't really been a rousing success. But maybe it would be different if the people who were injured hadn't had a choice about being in danger, unlike the people in Soron.

"How could being a friend help, though?"