"I can do that." Annie shuts the door and - can't really do the maneuvering to get them into bed because Lucette is very strong and Annie is very clumsy but she can exert pressure in that direction till they're sitting on the bed and then she can kiss Lucette.

This is really nice and soothing it turns out! Lucette is not sure if it's entirely ethical, but right now it's not her who has to decide whether it's ethical.

Kissing Lucette is a very cheering activity.

Stories about Annie's first visit to the York hospital aren't taken entirely by most who hear them, but some people are still desperate enough to make the trek out to see if the stories of an empowered healing commoners are true. When those desperate few come back healed people began to take the stories quite a bit more seriously.

Seems likely to improve throughput.

By her fourth trip the hospital is crowded with visitors begging for her healing. One person, however, has not come in search of healing but instead to ask Annie to bless her newborn child.

"...if she's already healthy I can't do anything for her, that's not how my powers work."

"Please Lady Ann - it would be an honor, just to receive your blessing for my child. Even if she is not in need of your healing."

"I don't even know how to bless people!"

"Just... any words you may have... m'lady..."

"She seems like a lovely baby and I hope she has a wonderful life?"

The woman has tears in her eyes when she thanks Annie afterwards.

That was awkward and hopefully the woman does not tell any of her friends that it's possible to harass Annie into pretending to bless a baby.

A day after the baby blessing Lucette is feeling sufficiently recovered from her recent haunting to actually want to have the conversation Annie wisely suggested should be left for later.

"Can you be at all more specific about what you are trying to find out here?"

"If I regularly say things that bother you I'd like to know? Or if you are putting up with other discomforts that I could remedy."

"So, I don't have a single immobile preference about the state of the world? It's all complicatedly interdependent with what you want, though of course I only know what you communicate to me about what you want. And sometimes two states of the world that are very similar in almost every way are wildly different in where they'd be in my preference ordering. So if my talking about it changes something about what you want or how you feel about it that can itself render whatever I said out of date."

"I am not entirely certain how to responsibly interact with that."

"It seems like it would be pretty hard! If it seemed like it would be very simple and low-risk I would have been speaking up more readily all along, but unfortunately instead it is not."

Nod.

"Would it be helpful at all for me to tell you more things about preferences I have?"

"Probably, yes? Especially in the sense that I do not prefer to operate on incorrect information even if it might make me less cheerful in the moment."

"Are there particular sorts of preferences that would be helpful to know about?"

"Well, I remain kind of confused about your kissing-related attitude but we did not get very far on that last time."

"I may have more insight on it now, if you have specific questions?"

"...well, why would you have more insight now?"