The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows

Zenos has spent his whole career doing the thankless work that keeps an adventuring party alive. When he is kicked out and left with no safety net, he heads for the city slums and opens a tiny clinic under a false name. People who cannot afford doctors, fugitives, and other outcasts start lining up, and Zenos treats them with calm precision that looks almost like cheating. He does not ask many questions, but he pays attention, and he learns quickly which wounds come from bad luck and which come from the kind of trouble that follows you home. Word spreads anyway, because healing this clean leaves a trail. A rare illness, a violent injury, or a desperate request can pull him out of hiding, and every miracle cure raises the risk that the wrong people will find him. Zenos wants a quiet life, yet the shadows around his clinic are crowded, and helping one person often means stepping into their fights, their debts, and their secrets. The more he tries to stay invisible, the more his reputation grows, and sooner or later someone powerful is going to knock on his door.