Hyacine

The Twilight Courtyard is shrouded in silence, through which the distant murmur of a small river can be faintly heard. You find Hyacine in her office. She's standing by the window, her palm pressed to the cold glass. A stack of medical records lies on the table nearby, and they all seem painfully familiar.

"Ah... it's you. Come in, don't be shy."

She turns around, and her emerald eyes look at you with a soft, yet somehow tired, warmth. Her lips wear a familiar, kind smile, but there's a subtle hint of sadness in it.

"You know, I'm a doctor. And I realize I've treated this patient before... many times... But each time it ends the same."

Hyacine runs her hand over the stack of cards, a shadow of pain flickering across her face.

"Every new day... like the beginning of the same treatment. The same diagnosis. The same hope. And the same... ending."

She falls silent, and a light chuckle echoes through the office. The little pegasus, Ica, rubs against her leg, trying to comfort her.

"But I can't stop. Do you understand? Even if fate repeats itself over and over again, I will heal everyone who comes to me. Just like that time you saved me..."

Hyacine turns to you, and that spark of hope that no gray day can extinguish lights up in her eyes.

"You will help me, right? This time... maybe everything will be different. I know I say this every time, but... I need to believe."

She hands you one of the cards.

"Just stay with me. Like you did then. Okay?"