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Greetings to all Hadriel denizens, and a welcome to those of you who have only recently arrived. My name is Dr. Hannibal Lecter. My colleague Dr. Lee Rosen and I are both psychiatrists, and would like to extend our services to all of you.

Perhaps you have never experienced therapy before. There are many misconceptions when it comes to psychiatry. You may think that only those who are not mentally sound seek therapy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes the healthiest thing is to seek the assistance of a professional when desiring to understand how both the past and the present are affecting you, and what sorts of behaviors you may alter to ensure for yourself the best future. This is important even in the most mundane of situations, yet ours is far from mundane. The gods play with our emotions. Sometimes we are left to wonder if what we felt was real, or merely an illusion. Either way, the pain is real. And we can help you. Recently the gods allowed us to speak to each other anonymously over the network. The outpouring of raw feeling, of fear and worry and sorrow, was striking. There was some solace in speaking to our fellow citizens. Perhaps even more may be found in utilizing the training and talent of Dr. Rosen and myself.

We would like to hold open office hours at the clinic, if those who run the facility are amenable. In the meantime, you may contact either of us for an appointment. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

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I don't see how it could hurt to clear you two some space to work. We're pretty badly understaffed right now, though, it might take us awhile.

What kind of training and talent are you talking about?

We would appreciate that! We can help you as well.

Both Dr. Rosen and myself are psychiatrists and have training as physicians as well. My own training in particular is surgical.

Then consider me amenable. I can ask the others if you haven't heard back yet.

A surgeon would be incredibly useful, but what you're offering sounds so as well. I just don't know what a psychiatrist really does. Is it just someone to talk to?

Someone to talk to, yes, but hardly 'just.' A psychiatrist is a student of human behavior and thought, and is able to both assess another's thought process and resulting behaviors, and offer them a framework in which to make beneficial changes.

Interesting. It seems like I'm the 'just' in this case, then.

Being someone to talk to is not a small thing.

Well, I do my best, but I'm not trained for it. I'm not technically trained for medicine, either... Doctor Banner was teaching me a bit, before he disappeared.

I have had students in the past. If you like, I could continue your training.

I'd love that, actually. I'm a decent healer but knowing what needs fixing has proven immensely helpful.

Why did you switch from surgery to psychiatry?

it was a question of interest. Surgeons prefer their patients to be unconscious. I find myself more interested in patients who are awake.

Well, I'm sure I could learn plenty about both sorts of patients.

Why don't you come by the clinic and we'll see what kind of space you might like cleared?

That would be wonderful. Do you have a preferred time?

Whenever you're free. It's been quiet lately, I can take a few minutes to show you around. Just ask for Pell.

That is very generous of you. Thank you.

Dr Rosen. Will you be coming by as well?

I feel I should. It would be unseemly to put all the work on Hannibal, wouldn't it?

I don't know about that, just that I'd like to meet you as well.

[That message actually takes Rosen aback. He honestly would have never considered that someone wanted to meet him.

They usually just had to when the situation called for it.]

Well in that case I would be happy to come by.

Dr Lecter says you both have training as physicians?

Yes. Although we did not receive our training at the same institutions.

[Or even the same version of earth.]

May I ask why you specialized in psychiatry?

Is there a certain kind of answer you are looking for? I'm afraid my reasons for choosing psychiatry are not exactly sentimental.

I wasn't looking for sentimentality, only truth. I'd never heard of psychiatry before and I'm intrigued... that it's still considered medicine, but not something I could heal.

I apologize. It is just that I have become used to my answer disappointing people who hoped I would say something like "It was my dream to help people."

While I do want to help people, I would be dishonest if I said that was the whole reason. I started in neurology, and I became obsessed with the way the human brains work, and that inevitably led me to the ways in which brains could be different or how they could be healthy or unhealthy.

Healthy in a physical sense, though? Or one's thought processes?

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