Seldan was already reaching ahead with Mindspeech, but it can be hard to find unconscious people if they're also wearing the kind of absurd Thoughtsensing-blocking talismans that Leareth's people have on hand, and so he wasn't sure until they actually entered the room - 

- Leareth isn't here. The bed Leareth was previously in is empty and rumpled, with the top blanket missing. 

Vanyel and Stef are in bed, as expected. Neither is moving, though Vanyel in particular is in a position hinting that he was awake, if only briefly, and made a failed attempt to get up. There are three Healers, all collapsed on the floor. Nayoki is also on the floor, and not completely unconscious - she's trying to lift her head, maybe trying to drag herself to the door - but she isn't answering in Mindspeech and doesn't seem able to notice the new arrivals. 

Seldan is also having trouble thinking. Horses are incapable of throwing up, which one would really THINK ought to make them also incapable of experiencing nausea AND YET. He's reaching out with Mindspeech, in case Leareth is nearby, but honestly he's not feeling optimistic about his ability to carry an unconscious person over from another room. ...He's not finding anyone nearby, anyway, there are some unconscious minds in the living quarters but those are up a floor, the Work Rooms are down the hall but too shielded to check from here. Blai can turn some of his other prepared spells into healing spells, right, if they find Leareth later. Maybe Leareth isn't even here, maybe he woke up and Gated out in time and is fine?

Seldan thinks they shouldn't wait. The air is still getting hotter and he has no idea what just happened but it penetrated right through solid stone and he's worried about the structural integrity of the building, and everyone in this room who could Gate them out is incapacitated. 

Yes, he can turn any nondomain spell into more healing. Hopefully some of these people once up again can do more about the temperature or the nausea or anything like that. He feels wire under his burning fingers and he reaches out in that swiftest of prayers, help.

It's a good pull, sometimes it does very little but this was a good one, almost all of his capacity, maybe because he's been inching towards another circle or maybe pure luck. Positive energy bursts out. He still feels like he could use two Lesser Restorations and a vat of ginger tea and a week in bed but he is not going to get everything he feels like he could use today as every other day in the past.

Vanyel scrambles up and, on pure reflex, flings a shield over all of them. Which instantly makes it obvious that the dizziness and shakiness and nausea aren't the only things wrong. There's something very badly wrong with his reserves, or his...casting efficiency, or something...? A shield, even one he accidentally overpowered because he was startled, really shouldn't have taken most of his strength. 

:What happened?: he attempts to send to everyone in the room. This isn't the Foresight dream. What does he remember last– oh, he does have a blurry recollection of waking up here, trying to make sure Stef was there, then - pain, but not an attack. A Gate? But that can't possibly be all of what happened, he's not nearly as sensitive to Gates anymore even if it's catching him entirely off guard. 

:Checking alarms: That was the last coherent thought Nayoki was holding onto, and she can pick it up instantly. She doesn't bother to stand; mage-work doesn't require it, and if she holds still then maybe she can manage not to throw up. 

Stef yells out a string of Valdemaran swearwords and then starts dry-heaving over the side of the bed. 

The Healers on duty for this shift are also clambering to their feet. No one is panicking. They work for Leareth; they've had training in reacting to emergency situations. 

Seldan takes inventory. 

He feels quite a long way from dying, which is good. Carrying Blai anywhere in a hurry would not be fun but he should be physically capable of it, if necessary. A lot of the other unpleasantness is still there, but feeling icky isn't going to prevent him from moving or Mindspeaking to coordinate, and he can think around it. 

...It does seem relevant to figuring out what just happened, that Blai's channel only sort of fixed it. Seldan pulls up everything he's gleaned so far from Blai's thoughts and memories about how the healing works. Channels won't fix illness, like an infection, but infections don't pass right through ten feet of stone and then take full effect in seconds. ...It also wouldn't fix poison, but Seldan is equally baffled about how anyone could have poisoned them without setting off all of Leareth's alarms and warning them, and also that doesn't explain why it's so bloody hot. 

Answering their many questions can wait until they're safe. :Leareth is gone: he sends to everyone in the room, again. :Did anyone see where he went?: 

SHIT

:...I felt a Gate? I didn't - there wasn't time to figure out what -: 

:Oh. Good.: 

NOT good!!! Leareth is perfectly capable of pulling out a Gate even when badly injured - Nayoki has personal experience of this - and maybe he thought to aim the Gate at somewhere with Healers, but if he was entirely caught off guard - and he must have been, Nayoki had been watching with Mindhealing Sight, she would have noticed if he had woken up even half a second in advance of the...whatever it was... 

His reflex would be to get to a records cache, and the system Nayoki set up after the last time something like this happened, to find him without too much delay if he were too incapacitated to answer a comms spell, relies on equipment set up here. 

...And she can't afford even the time to think it through, because among the alarms screaming for her attention, one of them is the fact that the earthquake shielding - a stiff but slightly flexible force-net woven through the stone itself - is under enormous strain and running low on power. The heat-shielding is on its way to going down, and if this is how much heat is making it through intact shielding, she can't imagine what the room is going to be like in another couple of minutes. 

:Need to Gate out: she sends, shakily. 

:Gate to Haven: Seldan sends back instantly. It's logical. They have no idea what happened, which means they don't know how big an area it hit. Haven should be far enough; the other bases won't be. Haven doesn't have a Heartstone anymore; that leaves the Shadowgod as the main god with influence, and They don't seem to be an enemy. And Valdemar has excellent Healers. Seldan is pretty sure they're still going to need that. 

Nayoki doesn't argue, but her hands are trembling. 

:I will try. It - is a long way.: 

Vanyel is taking down his shield, as carefully and properly as he can manage; it's clearly not doing anything useful. Halfway through, he also has to stop to throw up. 

It reminds Blai of - the thing that happened when Savil tried to gate to k'Treva. That was hot, and strange, and a channel did not fix it completely, and it is also clearly possible on this world's magical base. Lesser Restorations helped a lot with that. He could - cast one on Nayoki, if she's the one doing the gate?

Seldan had been considering whether to suggest Waymeet instead - he feels a lot better about Haven, but he's not sure how much this is just out-of-date associations from his life as a Herald, when Haven was safe and Waymeet was someplace he had never heard of, far outside the borders of the kingdom... 

...oh, that's a better solution. Yes, Blai should do that. Seldan is already bouncing the plan to Nayoki in Mindspeech, while a different thread of his attention goes hunting in Blai's memories for any hints of whether the Healers could do something. It seems like they could do a little but not fix it? Or possibly decided not to focus on it, because neither of their patients was dying and they had other patients to save their energy for? 

Seldan is moderately worried that whatever this was, it was a lot worse than the k'Treva version, and they are still dying, just - slowly, and with Blai's channel having bought them some ground. Well, no point trying to figure that out from here. The Healers in Haven can have a look. (The Healers here could also do that, in a pinch, but they still look pretty out of it.)

His thoughts - still entirely visible to Blai, if Blai has the attention to spare for it - bounce sideways to the still-unanswered question of what actually happened, and whether 'it was like k'Treva' is informative. K'Treva was destroyed by the Heartstone exploding, no? But that mostly adds confusion, because there isn't a Heartstone anywhere nearby. The first story Seldan can throw together is that maybe Leareth was building a test prototype of his god-project near here, without telling them, and that exploded? Since it seems like 'god-related energy' might be the thing? But that story seems absurdly implausible even setting aside the part where Leareth spent most of the last day trapped in a Foresight dream. It is too bad Leareth Gated out before they could ask him, though, since he knows more about magic than anyone else on this planet. 

Leareth does not, in fact, have any more of an idea than they do what could possibly have happened. 

He is still consciously, albeit barely. His exposure was slightly less, maybe 60% of what everyone else took. (Not, actually, enough to matter, and Leareth doesn't know what's wrong but he can already put together that he's dying.) 

He tried for Vanyel with the comms-spell, a minute or so ago, on the grounds that he's no longer in the dream and Vanyel might also be awake. There was no answer, and the comms-spell gives less feedback than Mindspeech; he has no idea if Vanyel is even still alive, or whether there's anything left of the base he escaped from. 

He doesn't have very many more tries left. He doesn't think he has very many more minutes of consciousness left. If whatever just happened was bad enough, it's possible that no one is looking for him, or in any position to rescue him. 

Leareth musters all of his remaining strength, and tries for Jisa. At least he knows that she was over a hundred miles away. 

??????

That wasn't even a word, but Jisa, despite being incredibly distracted, manages to notice it in time, and grab the end of the comms-spell structure to stabilize it. 

<Jisa here> she sends back, immediately raising her shields to cut off the scrying specialist from Leareth's staff who arrived twenty seconds ago with a fragmentary report. Under normal circumstances that would be incredibly rude, but Enara can apologize for her. 

Oh. It worked. ...That means he needs to keep holding the link, and manage words or something, even though Leareth's head already feels like it might burst. 

<Help> Leareth manages. 

It's a very low-quality comms-spell link and Jisa still can't tell directly who she's talking to. 

She can make an informed guess, though. It seems pretty likely that it's someone from Leareth's base, which she was just informed is now underneath an inexplicably long shallow crater of slagged rock, the final point of some sort of giant not-levinbolt that blasted in from the east and left the air itself glowing. (Hopefully the base still exists underneath. The scrying-specialist had still been in the middle of trying to focus a scry on where it ought to be.) 

Who would contact her, if they were trapped and injured and could only manage a 'help'. Vanyel, obviously, but it doesn't feel like Vanyel...

...It also doesn't feel like Leareth, honestly, but it's...what she could imagine Leareth sounding like over a comms spell if he were halfway dead. 

<I'm here> she sends. <Where are you? Are you injured?> 

No immediate response, at all, which was NOT what Jisa was hoping for, but - she thinks the spell is still active. Of course, that could happen if the other end was from an artifact, even if the person using it was no longer conscious. 

Leareth is still there, but finding it increasingly difficult to take any kind of actions. 

<Records cache> he eventually squeezes out.

Which basically confirms that it's Leareth. And...also doesn't actually help Jisa at all, unless it's coincidentally the same records cache she stayed in overnight, which would be pretty surprising, doesn't Leareth have hundreds of them. 

<Which one?> she sends back. <Where on a map? Or - are they numbered, or something - I can ask your people, I just need slightly more than that to go on -> 

<Leareth?> 

Nothing. 

<Leareth, I'm here, please talk to me.> 

Nothing. 

Augghhhhh. Jisa already tried for Nayoki, obviously, right away after Brightstar started yelling to them in Mindspeech that something awful was happening, several seconds before her Mindspeech contact at the base informed her that there was an alarm of some kind. (She hadn't bothered trying for Leareth or Vanyel, at the time, given that she had every reason to think they were still in the Foresight dream and couldn't answer.) 

She rudely interrupts the conversation Enara is now having with the scrying-specialist. <Leareth's in trouble. He's in a records cache somewhere, but he didn't tell me which one, and he's not answering - please tell me you've got something to–: 

Which is the point at which one of the delayed shock-waves rippling through the bedrock reaches them, and the ground heaves under them and throws everyone to the floor. 

In Haven: 

Iftel and Valdemar share quite a long stretch of border. The Web-alarms are enormously less sophisticated, now that the Heartstone is gone, and the threshold to set them off is higher, but a mile-wide strip of fire along almost a hundred miles of border is more than enough to do it. 

Next to that, Savil barely even notices the unannounced Gate out in the middle of Companions' Field.