The Healer

“[He] began to collect enigma as diligently as he pursued his collection of mounted birds’ eggs. He was filled with as much wonder as he had found in those creatures that were born to fly upward, but a measure of pain and puzzlement was added. The unexplained, the tormented, that which had careened off its natural flight path, that which was lost, he wished to find and to restore. Or at least to fit together the broken pieces to see what they would form. Many characters were mounted in his specimen box.”
~Michael O’Brien from Strangers and Sojourners