What is socially unacceptable here may be her stated reasons to benefit of another clan might not include this reasoning. Motives count for a lot here.
On the other hand, it would not be very sensible to stay and watch her heal the feuding clan while injured, give that the recently defeated clan might renew the fight. You would have no obligation to protect her; the recipients of the healing would have that responsibility. It would be interesting to see what happens when she tells them she wants to be escorted back home.
Orlanthi have to respect whatever urges her healing power tells her to follow, but I don't think they have to wait around and accept a potentially disadvantageous situation that this would cause. Look for a way to turn this healing into an advantage for the clan.
--Todd
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, <ryancaveney_at_OG95r7z1IbjHpZ7dVQXnN7OvDI2mjFFomouT-AmDTpcPy0cR4gGWLgRjKsiDlhRwJ-sh-uumRWd8ZeQ.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> > She is often forced to choose who gets her best power, her greatest
> healing.
> > The choices are entirely hers--presumably based on her messages from
> Chalana
> > Arroy herself--the healing power tells her where it wants to go
>
> So what is the acceptable societal reaction to a healer who makes socially
> unacceptable choices? If our clan has a feud with our neighbors, and my
> sister
> the CA devotee says her goddess tells her to follow the warband to battle
> in
> order to heal our enemies first even when we nicely ask her not to, what
> can we
> do about it? What third way can we find between letting her do whatever
> she
> wants and just outlawing her? Relatively gentle physical restraint seemed
> like
> a better option than "screw you, you're exiled."
>
> Ryan Caveney
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