"No, they're not like wizard spells, they're granted by my god. I could... read people the Acts of Iomedae and see if any of them resonate with it, I suppose."

"It's class-exclusive?" He feels like he's missing something, but he's going to give himself a headache at this point. "The Acts of Iomedae are a special tome or something? Lots of people would give an arm and leg for a class like that, even if you can only do it once a day. I knew a [Marching Sergeant] in the army, could give his whole squad [Fast Recovery]. Most popular guy in the camp."

"The Acts are a book, which I have in my bag. I'm not sure I'm following everything you're saying, but I absolutely cannot guarantee that anyone will be capable of becoming a cleric, and in fact Iomedae is choosing fewer people than usual right now because She's very busy."

Well, the good classes are always hard to pick up.

"Iomedae is—your Guildmaster?"

"Iomedae is my god."

Jeiss suddenly has a blinding headache and his eyes are closed.

"- are you all right? Do you need healing?"

"I'm—" what was he doing "—I'm fine, just... sorry, what were you saying?"

He can hear the blood pounding in his ears, but he checks his sword, still in its sheath, he's in the middle of an interview, he's fine. He straightens and tries to calm his heart down.

"What happened to you?? Are you enchanted or under attack or -"

"...I don't know. I don't know why anyone would try to curse or enchant me—" Unless it's an area effect and he's caught in the radius.

He stands up and leans out the window, "Weir! Everything fine down there?"

        "Yes, sir! Is something wrong?"

He turns to Blai. "Did you see what happened?"

"You just doubled over suddenly. Do you have enemies who might be targeting you through a scry, or -" He's now looking around the room for a scrying sensor.

Truth stone? Yeah.

"I don't wish I were important enough to have enemies trying to kill me through a [Scry]." And he's never heard of that happening. He's no [Mage], but he's pretty sure that's not how magic works? "And my [Dangersense] isn't going off. It's gotta be a... flash migraine, or something." He sounds doubtful even as he says it.

"If you're sure."

"What were we talking about? I've lost my train of thought."

"I was explaining that Iomedae is my god."

He is going to slightly black out against the wall here, don't mind him.

"—Iome—is—?"

Yeah, no, there's a time to power through and a time to go to pinch his nose and stop thinking for a while.

"Are you sure you're all right?? I only prepared Share Language once today but I can do it again tomorrow if you need to put off dealing with me to go lie down or - something -"

"No, no, it's..."

He winces. It's like trying to get a dumb kid not to touch a hot stove, except the kid is his brain and even thinking about thinking about it is... yeah, the metaphor falls apart a bit.

"It's—the thing you said. That's causing it? You hit by some kinda [Chant of Madness] curse or something?"

"I suppose it would not necessarily be obvious to me if I had but this has never happened to anyone around me before."

Jeiss eases back into his chair, not thinking about stuff not thinking about stuff

"Maybe something's wrong with the language spell?"

"That would be plausible if I were a wizard but I don't think it would come up in - in - this case."

"Yeah, not going to ask about that."

His head has stopped hurting as much, but his heart's still pounding like crazy.

"I'm sure someone from the Mage's Guild will let you give them a heart attack for research but, well. Is it important, that I understand... that topic?"

He's playing it down. As embarrassing as it is, it's definitely going in the report that the human can incapacitate a high-level Guardsman with a few spoken words—possibly a contact spell and a few words.

"It... explains a lot about me but if you will take my word for the things it explains I don't think you strictly need to know it."

"Well, I'd need to know what things it explains to know one way or the other." Pause. "Also, I have truth detection."

"Oh, that's very useful! Is it on always? We don't have that where I'm from."