Vanyel manages to get his mind into gear enough to stand up and nudge aside the slab of melted-and-refrozen dream ice they're using as a door. 

"Stef? What in the world are you doing here." 

"Move out of the way and let me in, it's really goddamned cold out here." Stef shoves his way into the ice-hut. "...Heya, Leareth." 

The hut is not really sized to fit three people comfortably. Vanyel wedges himself into a corner to make room for Stef while avoiding encroaching on Leareth's personal space. 

Why would Stef care about Leareth's personal space. He sprawls. 

"Right. Update. Heartstone in Haven is shut down, Savil was fine. Well, pretty worn out, but not hurt. It's been - eight candlemarks, give or take? We don't know for sure which god is responsible for sticking you here, probably the Star-Eyed? Seldan tried to get the Shadowgod's attention and - didn't exactly get a message but maybe got a hunch? That the Shadowgod isn't - worried about there being a next step to the plot, Seldan said he was definitely getting 'not worried' - but apparently also isn't in a hurry to break you out." 

Leareth makes no comment about Stef attempting to prop his feet in Leareth's lap. 

"I suppose it might be convenient for Them as well if we are creating less noise in Foresight," he says dryly. 

Vanyel clears his throat. "And everyone else is all right? Blai? Jisa?"

Brightstar is almost certainly not all right and Vanyel can't quite bring himself to ask. 

Shrug. "Blai and Seldan are all right as far as I know. Jisa was still at the other base wherever that is, I haven't heard from her but I didn't hear anything was wrong either." 

Nod. Vanyel can't think of anything else to say. He's tired, which is an incredibly stupid way to feel in a dream. 

After a minute or two of silence, Stef flops dramatically against Vanyel's shoulder. 

"...Well, I guess I'm not getting pulled out of the dream and I'm stuck with you. I'm bored." 

"That's unfortunate." Vanyel feels like Stef kind of signed himself up for this, though? He does not feel like he has the energy to entertain his lifebonded here for the next however-many-candlemarks. 

Dramatic sigh. 

"...We should have a threesome or something."

"What? Why are you looking at me like that? It's a great way to kill time in a lucid dream." 

"Are you speaking from experience?" Leareth says dryly. 

Vanyel is not sure he's ever been this mortified in his entire life. 

It's been nine candlemarks - it's now pretty late at night - and Seldan has relayed a couple of updates, most recently that they're going to try to send Stef into the dream. 

He gently interrupts Blai again. :Unfortunately they're still stuck in the dream. Stef too, trying to pull him away from Vanyel and wake him didn't work - though at least it probably did work to get them an update on the Heartstone. It's going to start to be a problem if it's too much longer, the Healers can only get liquids into them safely.: 

:There's... a weird spell that I'm not sure if Iomedaeans get, but I can try asking for it, which can nourish people in their sleep...:

:...Huh.: The magic from Blai's world is so oddly specific. :You have to wait until dawn to ask for it anyway, right? I can pass on the idea, you might as well try it - well, hmm, does it waste the spell slot if it turns out Iomedae can't give it to you?: 

:No, I'll be able to tell that it's not working and have time to exchange it.:

:Then it sounds like there's not much downside to asking?: 

In the meantime they should probably try to get some sleep. 

Yup.

In the morning he asks for Dream Feast. He's never tried asking for it before - it's an incredibly bizarre use case, you almost never need to specifically feed someone in their sleep -

- and apparently he can have it. Does he need three of it, is it single target - it is single target but since they're in the same dream maybe they could just share, he doesn't know, does Seldan think it's worth three slots? Or two, maybe, Stef has spent less time in there.

Seldan has no idea if they ought to be able to share if they're in a shared dream! It's baffling to him that the spell exists at all and he doesn't have any detailed predictions of how it works. 

Stef is probably less urgent, they were anticipating the problem and he went in well-fed, but he's also - not that physically robust - and might well have problems before tomorrow if it turns out they can't share. Vanyel is in the worst shape - Savil thinks he skipped breakfast, and of course he was in the middle of an exhausting magical working - Leareth is going to be feeling it at this point but isn't at the point where he would have medical problems caused by lack of food before dawn tomorrow. 

Then again, who knows what's going to happen before tomorrow morning! It might be important for Leareth to be in good shape for a fight. Possibly Blai should ask for three just in case, and if the Healers see signs of improvement in all of them with one casting, that probably means they can share and Blai can save the remaining spells and cast them at intervals over the day instead?  

Three Dream Feasts is most of his first circle slots but he can drop them for Cures if they're unnecessary and if they're necessary better to have them, that checks out. Three Dream Feasts it is. Any input on the rest of the slots?

Oh, right, he can convert most spells into healing if he needs that more than the specific spell. Not too much of an opportunity cost, then. 

And, hmm. They're probably not going to end up in combat today - and have access to a lot of Velgarth mages to help defend them - but preparing some kind of defensive spell just in case might still be a good precaution? Blai's spells are often really specific so it's harder to pick one that would be useful in an arbitrary fight, but the summoning one is a rare ability for Velgarth mages and would also be useful if Leareth does manage to get out of the dream today and wants to research travel to Blai's world.

Lesser Restoration might be useful if Vanyel or Leareth wake up not at their best and need to be urgently able to function at full capacity - the Healers were concerned that being stuck in the dream also doesn't count as real sleep and they'll be exhausted even if they get out of it. The prophecy spell seems generically useful? Oh right and they were speculating on spells that would be noisy and retroactively punish the Star-Eyed Goddess for all of her shit, but didn't really make a decision on that...