I'm really not miserable. I like having something useful to do. If it weren't this it would be something else, but that doesn't mean it isn't this.
Bella giggles. I'm glad. I couldn't exactly refer you to a different subtle artist if we didn't manage a rapport.
I was going to do this as my job from when I got out of school to retirement age, Bella points out. I'm fine, this is interesting.
It's okay if it takes a couple tries to get a clear read on it. You're not going to knock the patch loose by fretting a little.
I didn't stick it on very hard in case you didn't like it. It might come loose, but probably not unless I take it off or a few days have gone by; you don't need to worry about it, I can put it back if it goes and you want it again.
I'm working out of a textbook so I'm sure there are things about the procedure I don't know, but normally I'd have an office somewhere and you'd find me in a book of people who do subtle arts and I'd have a specialty and you'd come to appointments - or I'd make house calls, if you couldn't leave your home - and then I'd do, well, sort of what we've been doing, except with less personal chatting because I'd be charging money for my time and you'd have a background expectation about therapists and how they work which didn't involve much of it.
I don't think it'd do me much good here, it only works if everybody wants it, and anyway I'm happy to help - the things I'd be doing with money would have mostly been 'pay to have a place to live' and 'buy food' and 'give to charity' and those are kind of not things I need to do here. I didn't have a specialty picked out. There's a bunch. Mood disorders, trauma, family therapy - I probably wouldn't have gone for that, it would have been too easy to get into the habit of trying to convince everyone that the sensible solution I came up with will solve their problems - anxiety, disconnection from reality, impulse control problems, substance abuse, all kinds of things - She picks up her intro book. I probably wouldn't have ever developed the sheer force to specialize in undoing hostile arts or magical damage other people did...
I don't think of it as common, but it's... commoner than 'never happens'... people mess with artifacts they shouldn't, get into fights, have accidents...