"Well, it's not an Osiris hospital," said Simon mildly, scratching his ear. "But there's more space than Serenity and the other medics are some of the best. --We have a healer, by the way. Magic. Turns himself into a cow, you'll like him."
He didn't joke the same way someone like Wash would, but instead carried his jokes with such a wry tone that it was hard to tell if he was being good-natured or he was simply world-weary. There was, however, a real fondness in his voice when he spoke of Hawke — as much as he'd bristled about Hawke using magic like it was legitimate medicine, Simon somehow counted the mage as his closest friend here.