None of that, either. Definitely not on an institutional level, and from what he can tell, not on the individual level either.

...this is bizarre. Do they just not vary a lot as individuals, or do they vary much more on different axes, or...?

They're different enough in other ways. Leaving the planet is just not something the Voss are interested in.

Weird.

Well, back to the routine, then.

It continues for a while, and then he's invited to start sitting in with the healers.

Oooh!

Voss healing is different from what she saw with the Jedi. No Jedi could have regrown legs like she saw her first night. Healing for them is more subtle, inwardly-focused, encouraging and assisting natural processes. What the Voss are doing is something else entirely.

...what is it that they're doing, then?

In all things, they say, there is a balance. Death pays for life. The healers move that credit to where it is needed.

In some of her, ah, less-authorized forays into the recesses of the Jedi Archives, she came across passing descriptions of a forbidden Sith art called lifebinding, manipulating the very essence of a being. The parallels she sees between her limited knowledge of that and her observations of Voss technique might be... unsettling.

...a bit. But she's more interested in the mechanics—what exactly does that mean? She paid for that dude's legs, does that mean she'll... have a shorter life? What are the actual observable consequences of this?

Sometimes, yes, the person offering will die so that the healed can live. But more often, it comes from those they have already slain. This is why the commandos who accompanied her came to the Shrine, to offer their balance of Gormak killed to heal the Voss.

In her case in particular, it was her connection to the Force that was used. The energy flowing through her was temporarily harnessed and diverted. If she had not been a Force sensitive, the healing would likely have at least paralyzed her, and possibly killed her.

Oh.

...hm.

.......can she learn to use that to become extremely good at healing without actual sacrifices involved, or minimising them anyway?

Without the transferal bits, it's a lot less effective. Voss practice does require more active management of the details than what the Jedi do, though. With hard work and a bit of creative thinking, she can use that experience to optimize her Jedi techniques more. She's still not going to be regrowing any limbs like that.

Oh. Well... she'll take what she can get.

Her reluctance to engage with the actual working of the healing is noted, and she's not asked to continue participating. She can study technique in the library instead, if she likes.

No no she'll engage with the actual working, given that harm has already been caused it seems like a generally good idea to at least get some good out of it. She doesn't like the idea of causing the harm that will be channelled into healing, though.

Healers rarely need to. Commandos exist, after all.

Sigh.

Perhaps she'd be interesting in mental healing? Too much energy there is disruptive and undesirable.

Ooh? That sounds interesting.

And tricky. All minds have a natural state of wholeness and health just like bodies, but the variance in that person-to-person is both subtler and more important. Not many people come for healing of this nature, so most of her learning will be from books.

Fascinating, anyway.

With the caveat about variations, there are still patterns of ritual one can use for various ailments. This for schizophrenia, this for psychosis, this for obsessive-compulsive, this for possession by ghosts...

...possession by ghosts?

Included only for completeness. There hasn't been a recorded case in the last thousand years.