"Don't think of it as a sentence," Amberdrake responded to that first bit, and to what Luke pushed away. "This is simply your new normal. And like I said, I can teach you ways to help it, as it develops. If it doesn't, so much the better;" the Healer smiled, "I'll still teach you those things in case it hurts in the rain when you're an old man."

He chuckled about Sanzo, and nodded, "I think you'll handle him fine, then. I'll tell him it's to keep an eye on you, but honestly, I know he's restless, and bored, and he needs the excuse to go out and do something besides gamble and smoke."