All right. Be right back.

And here she is back at the cave.

He is healing himself again, singing softly.

She sits by him and waits for him to come to a stopping point.

And after a while he looks up.

Hey. How're you doing?

I think I'll be able to write in a few days.

Good! ...I never did finish enspelling your hand, did I. I can do that now if you'd like.

Now is as good a time as any.

Spells: are cast.

Thank you. He tries to remember and send gratitude.

She grins. You're welcome.

It occurs to me that with all the running around I've been doing I forgot to tell you, your siblings wanting it as the password for their portals was proof enough for me, I can swear that I don't work for the enemy now - not completely reassuring, I know, but it seems to help at least. Want to hear?

I think that this is a hallucination, not that the Enemy actually has someone with your capabilities, or the war'd be lost already. But sure.

Yeah, but it at least rules that out; one less thing to worry about. "I swear I have never served the Enemy."

He nods. 

You seem a little better. 

Nod. I do better with more people around. And I made a better first impression with the new host.

I imagine they appreciated the food, and were less on guard against efforts by the Enemy to use me against them.

Mmhmm. I'm going to be working with them to find someplace for them to settle, too - in your world but probably not close to your host.

Another world entirely might be better if possible - remember our conversation about evacuating?

Yeah. I don't even know how to start on checking if other worlds are safe, though.

It seems kind of unlikely they'd be worse than this one. I'll think about it.

Nod. And at least here you know what you're dealing with, though that obviously only helps so much. I'll mention the possibility, anyway.

Any news from your siblings?

They're drawing up lots of experiments on how magic can be used, for when you next get a chance.

Nod. I'm probably going to be pretty busy with the other host for a while, but I'll make time to stop over there.

Sounds reasonable. 

Nod. Anything else before I head back out?