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Kaven looked shocked. "I would never give anyone a nightmare!" His eyes widened. "You don't understand the damage that dreams can do, even if they're not nightmares ... but nightmares, they can ruin a person." He was speaking from the heart, but moved on to give her a better idea of how his profession worked, and answer her myriad of questions.
"It's not exactly a profitable business... in fact it's not really a business." He admitted, laughing. "I mostly work with the very elderly or very ill, so I rarely take payment. It feels wrong, somehow." He paused here, trying to work out how best to explain the skill.
"It's ... a kind of healing, I suppose. I work with those who are exhausted, or ill, or unhappy. I can give them a restful night's sleep, and I can help to heal their body whilst they sleep, through their dreams. It's not an exact science, and of course it's not a magic solution. But a person's mind plays a big part in their body's health, and working with dreams and sleep helps them to heal - or at least, be more at ease and more relaxed. It's useful if someone is very seriously ill, I can help them to have a more peaceful passing for example, which helps both them and their family. I suppose in a way it's a type of seeing as well. If someone has a dream they cannot read, I can share in it with them and help.
I don't know where I learned it, but it's a skill that just developed as I grew up. No, there's no work up here that I know of. I haven't worked for a while, really." He stopped and took a breath, looking to her to see her reaction to all of this.