So I can keep her safe.

[The promise itself was secondary to actually following through with it. ]

I know what illness plagues me, it is slow to kill and there are treatments. I can live through this.

[Just neglecting to mention that the treatment was back home, and he lost both parents to the illness so he might have a bit of a generic disadvantage there. Those details are more on a need-to-know basis.]

I’ll rest after this, and you can even turn me in to that healer if you want.