He has enough self-awareness, thankfully, to not roll his eyes, because this is clearly a level of self-loathing anxiety he wasn’t quite prepared to finesse. The sheer inconvenience that Riftwatch needs a therapist but all it has is him; he’s not particularly great at it —
“I’m telling you, as a medical professional, that you need to rest,” Stephen says, “as any and all of us need to rest we’ve been through a traumatic event, and/or when we’ve been pushing too hard.”
And because he knows he’s not exactly innocent of that himself, what with the frenzied research spree Ness hadn’t been privy to, he’s compelled to add: “Nothing is currently on fire. We’re at the end of the year, and Kirkwall is slowing down for the holidays, for that period between Satinalia and Firstday. The war’s still on but that’s always on. I promise that you can slow down, too, in order to do your best work going forward. It doesn’t mean you need to lose your job over it.”
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“I’m telling you, as a medical professional, that you need to rest,” Stephen says, “as any and all of us need to rest we’ve been through a traumatic event, and/or when we’ve been pushing too hard.”
And because he knows he’s not exactly innocent of that himself, what with the frenzied research spree Ness hadn’t been privy to, he’s compelled to add: “Nothing is currently on fire. We’re at the end of the year, and Kirkwall is slowing down for the holidays, for that period between Satinalia and Firstday. The war’s still on but that’s always on. I promise that you can slow down, too, in order to do your best work going forward. It doesn’t mean you need to lose your job over it.”