#glates things

LT: I apologize for neglecting to contact you for so long. But considering current matters, now seemed the perfect time.

BC: That is understandable. I must admit, however, that I do not recognize your tag.

LT: Of course not. We've never spoken, nor have we met. But our interests overlap. Specifically, your interest in prosthetic.

BC: I am glad we have common ground, even if that does not include equivalent knowledge of each other.

LT: Considering what I have to offer you, it hardly matters. I'm offering you the chance to continue your work.

BC: Continuing my work?

LT: I imagine it's quite hard to work on prosthetics and the integration of mechanical parts when your primary manufacturer no longer wishes to work with you.

BC: And you are offering to rectify a supply issue? To what benefit of your own and what cost to me or my patients?

BC: Please forgive if I come across as curt, but ambiguous sources are some of my least favorite things.

LT: At no cost. A few simple limbs are of little concern to me. It's a whim. Everyone wants their work seen after all.

LT: As for my ambiguity, that depends on how well read you are. You do like books, don't you? Have you read "on the replication of organic processes through mechanical mimicry and its implications in the reproduction and enhancement of limbs and organs, with notes on the grafting there of by Glates Doster"?

BC: That sounds almost too good to be truthful.

BC: I have, yes.

LT: Then you can, no doubt, see the benefit of making use of the authors work.

BC: I cannot help but notice your hemotext. Am I correct in assuming that I am communicating with, not the author, but the notist of that work? Are you Ms. Glates Doster?

LT: That would be correct.

BC: Then, while I am flattered that you reached out to me, I must respectfully decline your offer.

LT: Curious. You would turn down the best source of prosthetics you are likely to ever find, at no charge. And why might that be?

BC: Honestly? Because I am well acquainted with your research methods and highly disapprove of the process.

BC: It is a conflict of morals, purely.

LT: You can't hear it but I'm laughing right now. You, as a doctor, would turn down the ability to provide the best care possible, simply because it makes you feel bad? Where is the morality in that?

BC: Because no amount of care should be built from torture and living dissection. I cannot support that process, nor would I impart on those in my charge something created from such sterile cruelty.

LT: In that case, you should quit medicine all together. How many of your cures, treatments, and methods are based off experiments born from the torture and exploitation of lowbloods? Your field is based on the suffering and pain of those who came before. I may have killed many, but thanks to me, I've made advances that would have taken another hundred years.

BC: I cannot unmake history, but I can chose the path I walk and, in doing so, leave as a different alternative for those who follow after me.

BC: So, I thank you for your time, but I am disinterested in forming any collaborative efforts. And do not foresee that changing any time soon, even by royal standards of measure.

LT: A shame. Considering what I've heard of you, I thought you might be open minded enough. It seems I will simply have to find someone else with whom to share my work. You're one of the few of your caste I thought might be worth while. Skilled and open minded enough to make use of what I have to offer. For now, my door will remain open. Perhaps the next time you see a troll suffering, faced with the loss of their quality of life, you will remember that you have the ability to help.

BC: Have a good evening, Ms. Doster.