"...I'm not as fast a healer as you are," Promise points out. "I can't be saving anyone's life right now. It would take at least fifteen minutes, after I found candidates and got them to sign things, unless you are personally planning to collapse with some mortal illness. Also I would have trouble appearing at the hospital like you would, I may or may not have supervillain enemies who might eventually decide to attack rooftops on which I'm healing and I have to balance that risk, I'm not sure what the distinctiveness of the various faces has to do with anything, and you are seriously underestimating how boring Fairyland can get compared to hanging out with grateful mortals and casting spells - possibly even while listening to completely novel music I didn't have to compose myself, it turns out my computer can do that. But yes, in the very long run I'd like to find some way to fix that whole mortality problem your species has, that will make everything much less urgent. Is this a problem you have? I'll be with you at the hospital as soon as my lawyer's cleared away the legal issues with having me in a crowded place full of people who go speaking their names with little to no provocation. Should lighten the load."

"There'll always be more. There are a lot of mortals, and they're very mortal, and no matter how much we do it'll just be expected. People being thankful is one thing, but eventually it starts to grate on you, you know? Their entire life is changed, and for you it's just yes, you're welcome, on to the next one. Because you have to."

"I don't have to. If I feel like it I can go home to Fairyland and stay there. I simply don't feel like it. I appreciate the thought of the warning but I don't seem to have your problem."

"If I want to fix the problem where mortals die I will have to do something more dramatic than postpone it for a few dozen of them. And, uh, if you don't want to hurt anyone with your power... do you think someone's going to make you?"

"I don't. But I'm worried I might. Some time when I'm tired and healing someone and wishing I didn't have this power, thinking about how everything would be so much easier if people weren't expecting miracles day in and day out, I'm worried I might let myself slip up. And then some kid dies because I wanted an easier life. I don't want that to happen."

"I really don't understand. And if you can solve this problem without fairy orders you probably should. If I make a mistake in the phrasing, you will do what I said, not what I would have meant if I had done it right. I have only ever made small mistakes, but I have made mistakes. Why don't you just stop? Sorcery can be taught. I'll probably find some mortals I want to teach to heal eventually. It doesn't sound like you're getting anything out of it at all. I'd call it admirable if I had any idea what quality I was admiring."

"I'm not going to claim that other people aren't important, but - I don't know how old you are, I'm terrible at guessing mortal ages, but you don't look like you need de-aging any time soon. Assuming your power is not going to disappear in, what, fifty years, a hundred, however long you have, and assuming that people as a class don't suddenly drop in moral value during that time, the most important thing you can do is to pick a pace you can hold steady. I will not employ you as slave labor and whatever you're doing doesn't look sustainable, even if you fail to sustain it in some less tragic way than killing somebody."

"I'm not asking you to make me keep doing anything, just to make sure I don't end up hurting people. Negative commands are enough. I could be incredibly dangerous if I ended up a villain, and I've caught myself plotting murder in the last week."

"...Look, I'm not completely unwilling to give you some negative orders, since you want them and I do have an idea of what the opposite of healing looks like, but I really think this should be combined with a solution that acknowledges that your long-term comfort with showing up to help is also very important."

"Yes it is."

"I mean, I can call you that, if you want, but it is not, for fairy orders purposes, your real name. Maybe whoever named you changed their mind early on?"

"I mean, yes. So if you can find it out without guessing five times, that would be useful. I do know that neither syllable in 'Amy' - construing both to contain the consonant; a vowel alone won't do it - is present, intact, in anything that constitutes your fairy-purposes name, so that might narrow it down."

"I suppose I'll have to ask why they thought they had to keep me from finding out my name. Since they definitely weren't expecting me to find out this way."

"No idea. Human families are a weird concept to me."

"Me too, sometimes."

"Ah, here I thought they made sense from the inside."

"Some fairies do have families - but not my kind and I've never interacted closely with any who did. I just started one day in my tree and I could already talk and write and fly and I knew most common knowledge. I went out and explored and got something to eat and went from there."