[ What he describes is not healing at all - at least none that she's ever heard of before.

But she considers it carefully all the same. ]

What you're saying is they lacked the ability to counter this plague with their own knowledge and sought others to bring in differing ideas and understanding to expand further.

[ Which was sensible, really. If you'd exhausted all your avenues of understanding, what else was there to do than to start looking in places yet unexplored? ]

What does this plague due? Is that why those in the marketplace were so obsessed with these Bonds?