"Would they?" Trigger looked at her thoughtfully. "That includes that total therapy process, doesn't it?"
"Usually," said Pilch.
"Well, I might some day. But not just yet." She smiled. "Let's let Lyad get a head start! Actually, it's just I've found out there are so many interesting things going on all around that I'd like to look them over a bit before I go charging seriously into a career again." She reached across the table and tapped Pilch's wrist. "And I'll show you one interesting thing that's going on right here! Take Mantelish's big tree out there!"
"The sequoia?"
"Yes. Now just last year it was looking so bad they almost talked the professor into having it taken away. Hardly a green branch left on it."
Pilch shaded her eyes and looked at the sequoia's crown far above them. "It looks," she observed reflectively, "in fairly good shape at the moment, I'd say!"
"Yes, and it's getting greener every week. Mantelish brags about a new solvent he's been dosing its roots with. You see that great big branch like an L turned upward, just a little above the center?"
Pilch looked again. "Yes," she said after a moment, "I think so."
"Just before the L turns upward, there's a little cluster of green branches," Trigger said.
"I see those, yes."