C Support:

Jean: …
Jean: It’s no use. I’m so tired that none of this is registering.
Lindon: Is there a problem, lad?
Jean: Hello, sir. I was just trying to get through this book.
Lindon: Reading at this late hour, are you? I admire your determination. What are you studying?
Jean: Medicine.
Lindon: Hmm… You look tired. It must be hard to focus so late at night.
Jean: I know I haven’t gotten much sleep, but there’s just so much to memorize.
Lindon: Battles by day, studies by night… The candle that burns at both ends doesn’t last long, lad.
Lindon: You’ll wear out your own body long before you learn to care for anyone else’s.
Jean: I know you’re right. It’s just…
Lindon: You’d be better served closing those books for now and giving yourself a change of pace.
Jean: But I still have so much to learn!
Lindon: Books are wonderful teachers, lad, but there are lessons they can’t impart.
Lindon: It might be time you looked somewhere else to learn a thing or two.
Lindon: Do that, and you might find that you’ll get more out of your books when you return to them.
Jean: You really think that’s true?
Lindon: I do indeed. Give me a few days, and I’ll see about setting up a lesson for you.

B Support:

Lindon: Here we are, Jean. Your new classroom.
Jean: A meadow?
Jean: Why are we here? I don’t see anyone who could teach me anything.
Lindon: Look harder, then.
Jean: Um…where?
Lindon: The flowers blooming all around us. They’ll be your teachers for today.
Jean: Heh, you’re kidding, right, sir?
Lindon: Oh, not at all. I’m very serious.
Lindon: You’ve exhausted yourself, lad, both physically and mentally.
Lindon: Nothing you could read in a book right now will teach you as much as these flowers can.
Lindon: Humor me and take a seat at my side.
Jean: OK… If you say so.
Lindon: Now lie back slowly and look up at the sky. Then take a long, deep breath.
Jean: OK…
Jean: Like that?
Lindon: My goodness, do you hear that? The flowers are whispering to you.
Jean: They are?
Jean: I don’t hear anything.
Lindon: Hmm. Try relaxing your shoulders more and turning your ears toward them.
Jean: Um…
Jean: I still don’t hear anything.
Jean: They smell good, though. And there’s a nice breeze in the air.
Lindon: Is that so? Then maybe you should take it all in more fully.
Jean: I’ll do just that…
Jean: …
Jean: …
Lindon: Asleep at last. And about time too.

A Support:

Jean: Sir, I’m sorry I was so rude last time. I didn’t mean to fall asleep in the middle of a lesson.
Lindon: You have nothing to apologize for. Getting you some rest was the whole point.
Lindon: Although there was a lesson to be learned there from the flowers.
Jean: There was?
Lindon: Don’t be in such a hurry that you neglect to take rests. You’ll miss the forest for the trees.
Jean: Aw…
Jean: I admit, I did have an easier time concentrating on that book once I got home from the meadow.
Lindon: Aha! Glad to hear it.
Jean: Sir? Would you do me the honor of taking me on as a student?
Lindon: Who, me?
Jean: I learned a lot from that lesson.
Jean: I need more than books. It would be better if I had a whole range of knowledge and expertise.
Jean: That’s the kind of thing a master sage like you could offer.
Lindon: Hm-hm, a master sage, huh?!
Jean: Should I not call you that?
Lindon: No, no. The title is fine. It’s just…
Lindon: I have a lot to teach, and I’m getting on in years. I might end before my curriculum does.
Jean: I wouldn’t worry too much about that.
Jean: I’m still learning, but as your doctor, I’ll see to it that you stay in good health.
Lindon: Hm-hm, so that’s the deal, eh? Well played, well played.
Lindon: I accept, then. From now on, consider yourself my student.
Jean: Thank you, sir! I’ll make you proud!