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blai in book 11 of asftv
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Lesser Restoration does work well on fatigue, he'll prepare two of those and if they don't need them there's probably someone else around who could use it, maybe the king if he's not up to as good as Lesser Restorations can get him yet. Minor Prophecy. A second circle Summon Monster. Remove Curse, he only has room for one but it might work on getting one dreamer out if it counts as a curse and the Star-Eyed didn't put too much oomph into it. Air Bubble. Same orisons as usual.

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All of that seems sensible to Seldan! 

Once Blai is done getting spells, he can ask someone to direct them to wherever they've stashed Vanyel and Leareth and now Stef? Or Blai can have his own breakfast first if he wants, it's not like it's urgent on the level of minutes. 

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He can go Dream Feast Vanyel first, he's not himself nearly as hungry as Vanyel must be.

"Dream Feast."

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Vanyel is huddled in the snow hut, feeling really abjectly miserable given how nothing actually awful is happening. He has a headache. He's not sleepy, apparently the dream doesn't allow that, but he's increasingly aware of the background exhaustion. 

He's hugging his knees and ruminating on how everything is going to be terrible forever and probably the gods will permakill Leareth and it's going to be Vanyel's fault personally, and then - 

 

 

- abruptly there's a truly spectacular spread of food in front of him. 

There's so much food! What. There are food items there that Vanyel hasn't seen in years - that dessert is from Kata'shin'a'in, that fruit is one that was sold in the markets in Jkatha when they passed through... That one he hasn't had since he was a child. 

Why?????????? 

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"Huh!" Stef leans forward curiously. "That looks delicious, can I have some?" 

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"Don't touch it." Vanyel is staring at the food with confused alarm. "That's...never happened before..." 

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Leareth is mostly looking curious rather than alarmed. "Interesting. - Blai's magic can create food, no?" 

 

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"Dream food?" Vanyel is still giving the feast such a suspicious look. "....I don't know. Maybe, I guess." 

It does look really good. 

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"Oh, come on. If you're just going to sit there looking at it..." Stef steals a pastry and takes a nibble. "Wow. This is really good." 

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Leareth's lips are perhaps twitching faintly into a smile. "Well. I suppose one way to find out if this is hostile is to wait and see if anything happens to the Bard." 

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....Well, that's a confusing but hopeful observation? 

 

The Healers report to Blai that, uh, it looks like Stef specifically is showing signs visible to Healing-Sight of having had nourishment? Which, uh, if he's sure he cast it on Vanyel, it does seem like it implies that the effect of the spell extends to people other than the person it was cast on? Maybe Vanyel is just taking his time about trying it? They can wait and keep watching. 

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It makes sense that they'd have one of them be a poison tester and Stef certainly seems like the most expendable of the three.

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Seldan cannot imagine Vanyel willingly using Stef as a poison tester but he can picture Leareth nudging for that without making the reasoning explicitly. Anyway, the food in fact isn't poisonous so hopefully they'll notice that soon. 

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The Healers do in fact report ten minutes later that Leareth is now showing some positive signs - 

 

 

- and, great, so is Vanyel. They were starting to get worried. 

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Seldan had also been a bit worried that Vanyel might be having enough of an emotional breakdown in the dream to be incapable of eating dream food - it can't be a great environment for him, and of course Yfandes is still dead - so that's a relief, and it seems like he and Blai are free to leave now? 

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Seems like it. Unclear where they should go, but they can go wherever that should be and read more Acts maybe.

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How about breakfast! And then back to their room, if no one seems to need anything from them. 

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Breakfast sounds good. He will go read the Acts over breakfast.

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Several hundred miles away:

 

Enara nudges at Jisa's mind. :Jisa, wake up.: 

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:Mmm...?: Jisa was having such a nice dream about Treven, though tragically not a lucid shared one. :- M'awake. What is it?: 

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:Sorry, love - it's a few candlemarks past dawn, I didn't want to disturb you after you were up late but. Something's happening with Brightstar.: 

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The entire reason Jisa was up late was because she spent candlemarks with Featherfire, trying to talk to Brightstar - not even interrogating him, just trying to help him be less miserable - and, after giving up on that, trying to get him to sleep without using incredibly invasive Mindhealing on him. Eventually she did just ask one of Leareth's Healers to make him sleep, it's not as restful as natural sleep but it's better than nothing. 

Anyway, that was not what she wanted to hear, and she's actually awake now! 

:What? Something bad -?: 

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