Blai is not all that strong in general and in particular right now but he can try to be, like, proprioceptively helpful like the banister on a staircase?

...Seldan can look pathetic at some of the Healers until they get it together to send some of the stronger Healers to help him. He can walk - he's very unhappy about it but he's not actually clear how or whether they could move him if he wasn't helping - and he can get back to the room, and then...

...well. That just happened. And...is going to have a lot of consequences, and Seldan doubts the consequences can wait until they feel less miserable, because there's no reason to think that either the Healers or Blai's magic will fix the misery. But maybe it can wait until they've slept a little bit. 

Seldan isn't tracking whether all of that was visible from the room. If not, he calls dibs on not being the one who has to tell Nayoki. Or Vanyel, come to think of it. What if Vanyel cries. Seldan has never felt especially equipped to deal with crying people. 

Shavri gets Blai more ginger tea. She doesn't say anything more to him, and her eyes are unfocused in the way that means she's fully absorbed in Healing-Sight. 

Should Blai tell Vanyel and Nayoki? He doesn't really like crying people but that doesn't matter.

...Oh, no, Seldan wasn't trying to hint that at all. Blai doesn't speak Valdemaran, that's a perfectly good excuse by itself when the Healers want them to avoid using Gifts like Mindspeech. You know who should do it: Jisa! Where is Jisa anyway– you know what, nevermind. Someone else's problem. Seldan is going to SLEEP. 

Jisa is sitting stupidly on the floor against the hallway wall, hugging her knees and not-looking at Leareth's body.

Every few seconds, it occurs to her that she's sitting here being useless, and then she runs headlong into the fact that she's...out of tasks on her list? Which is an incredibly stupid way to feel when there's self-evidently an ongoing emergency, and yet. 

She was trying to find Leareth. She found Leareth. Before anyone else, which she might be proud of if it had fucking helped. She wanted to make sure Blai and Seldan and Van and Stef and Nayoki were okay or at least in a safe place. That's confirmed. She's not actually in the chain of command for Leareth's organization and has no idea how she could help with the evacuation, which is...probably over now, or as over as it's going to get, everyone who had a chance of getting out safely already has. They definitely know Blai is here and has one more channel, so hopefully they're going to figure out who would benefit most from being crammed into the room for that. Jisa also doesn't know how she could help with that even if she wanted to. 

...It takes her a while to notice that Brightstar, beside her, isn't just doing the same thousand-yard stare. He's - elsewhere. In trance, doing something, and he doesn't react to her gentle Mindspeech prod. 

Maybe thirty seconds after that, Brightstar's eyes fly open and he draws in a shaky breath. 

Oh. Good. Jisa had just been in the middle of trying to figure out whether she ought to tell someone about his...state...and if so who and what to say. 

:Hey. Are you - all right - what is it -?: 

Brightstar gives her a bleak, exhausted look. :I went to the Void. To try to catch Leareth's soul. It did not work.: 

:You did what - 

- you can do that - ?: 

Brightstar shrugs. :It seems I cannot do that. I think maybe only gods can.: 

Jisa drags a hand over her face. :No, I mean, what were you even going to do with him if you - caught - him?: 

Brightstar shrugs again, helplessly. (He at least isn't blocking Jisa out; he's letting her see his thoughts, which are still mostly a sea of numb empty blankness, but - it's clear that he was trying, even without much of a plan, and there's no sign that his goal if he had managed to grab Leareth's soul was to attempt to destroy it before anyone realized what he was doing.)

:I am not sure. I - I thought maybe if I could hold onto him, we could patch the soul-sanctuary? Enough for it to work once?: 

Brightstar blinks, slow and tired. :...I saw him: he adds after a moment, his mindvoice just as flat as before. :I think. It was just - everything was so fast. ...I think the spell means his soul is attached very tightly to a body, and then when he dies it should - exit - with a great deal of force, to reach the soul-sanctuary with very little time...exposed. It was very interesting to watch, actually. But - it failed, obviously, like I knew it would, and - I was not fast enough -: 

Jisa just stares at him for a moment.

She manages not to snark out loud that he’s remarkably, even suspiciously, invested in this all of a sudden. It…makes sense, when she just persuaded him that Leareth was the only way he would ever see his parents again. Also, it doesn’t actually need that much additional explanation that Brightstar would have a very clever idea involving weird planar magic and immediately be compelled to test it, with no thought at all toward a plan for if it worked. 

…It didn’t work, so it’s all hypothetical anyway, and Jisa is abruptly weighted down with exhaustion again.

:Thank you: she says, earnestly. :For trying. It’ll mean a lot to Nayoki. …We should go talk to her. And Van. I don’t know if they…saw…:

No one could actually stop Vanyel from getting Farsight up as soon as he realized something was happening (which didn't take long at all given that the something started with a Gate right outside in the hall), or from bouncing it to Nayoki.

He didn’t interrupt. It was pretty goddamned obvious that it would be a bad time to interrupt, and - it was all over pretty fast. Less than two minutes, from the Gate to the point when they gave up, and - really he already knew, from the moment Blai's spell did nothing. There was never, at any point, anything it made sense for him to do. 

(He did briefly consider if it would be worth stopping his own heart to die just a little bit and go issue some demands to the Shadow-Lover, but the mental picture of Shavri's reaction quelled that plan instantly. Vanyel literally couldn't think of a worse situation to be making extra work and stress for the Healers.) 

Nayoki didn't try to micromanage. From what she could tell, they were doing all the right things, and it's just that, sometimes, doing all the right things isn't enough. Even though that's not allowed to be true for Leareth, specifically. It's what happened. 

She's so tired. 

On further consideration Jisa leaves Brightstar outside in the hall, with the mages from the base who followed them here. As far as Nayoki remembers - gods, as far as Vanyel remembers - he was their enemy and their prisoner, and hauling him into the room can't possibly be reassuring even if she's doing it to give him credit for being remarkably heroic. 

In hindsight she half can't believe she tried that, that was an insane plan, what in the world even made her think of it as an option. ...And at the same time she's trying not to think about the fact that if she'd thought of it ten minutes earlier, they might have been in time. 

...There's not, actually, all that much to say, given that there's no point now getting into a whole debate about her reasoning when she asked Brightstar for help. Brightstar had a vision from the Star-Eyed and was suddenly willing to talk to her. Then the attack happened, Nayoki and Van may know more about that than she does. Leareth contacted her over the comms spell, so she knew he was in trouble. They didn't have any more time to plan before the earthquake forced an evacuation into a random records cache. ...They never did get scrying up on the inside of the base that Leareth had been in, actually, not that it makes any difference now. They found a map and started a search. Jisa realized it was going to take too long and - at that point remembered that Brightstar knew how to track Leareth's location. She...convinced him to try. It worked, which she took as confirmation that Leareth wasn't dead, but - well - they don't know if he was already too far gone for Golarion healing, given that APPARENTLY it's possible for someone to be and STILL SHOW UP TO MINDHEALING SIGHT. Brightstar thought there was something unusual going on with how his soul was attached, which makes sense if it's part of the immortality spell, maybe that's why.

Anyway. They found him, and they brought him through a Gate, but Blai's magic didn't work and neither did anything else they tried. That's...all, really. 

(Jisa gives her two-minute report in Mindspeech, to avoid disturbing Blai - who already knows what happened - and Stef, who apparently managed to sleep through the entire thing and clearly needs the rest.) 

(She's not using a directionally-shielded private Mindspeech link and under normal circumstances Seldan could listen in, but Seldan also already knows what happened and he's much too tired.) 

Vanyel isn't Chelish, but that doesn't mean he's going to let himself cry in front of random Healers. That would be mortifying. 

Nayoki also has too much dignity to cry in semi-public, though in her case it's more about the King of Valdemar's lifebonded being right there. 

....Jisa leaves. 

Shavri is quietly recalculating her plan for today. Not having to prioritize Leareth, who would probably be in much worse shape than the others even if the Cure had worked, does...simplify things. 

She still doesn't think there's any possible world in which one more channel is enough to get everyone through until tomorrow morning. Which...means there are going to be triage decisions to make. Blai doesn't have enough Cure spells left to cover everyone. 

She's vaguely planning to wake Blai as soon as, one, they have other casualties to include in a channel, or two, someone in the room is in bad enough shape that it can't wait any longer; for right now, she doesn't need him yet. She'll explain that to him if he asks but it's not going to occur to her to do it unprompted. 

If someone has provided him with ginger tea he's gone through a lot of that and is allowing himself to fall back asleep. He is not a wizard. It is fine to wake him up if they need him and that means he can sleep now.

It's fine for him to sleep! If Shavri had been more on top of things, she would have thought to explicitly tell him that she doesn't expect to need him for at least ninety minutes. 

She spends that time checking and re-checking everyone with Sight, making notes, conferring with the other Healers. Gauging the rate of deterioration. 

...There are no lethal-without-Blai's-magic injuries among the other evacuees from the north, at least not that anyone can tell Shavri about in the next ninety minutes; most likely, Shavri thinks, it was only the people who weren't too badly injured who got out at all, anyone who was unconscious when the evacuation was in progress was just...left behind. Also it seems like the mysterious life-force-leaking effect was narrowly targeted and pretty much just hit Leareth's base. Everywhere else was just earthquakes and fire. 

There...are probably a lot of critically injured people along the Iftel border but the current state of their communications with anyone who can speak on behalf of Iftel is not great, and right now Shavri doesn't have the energy to weigh that as a consideration. Someone else's problem. She has too many problems just in this room. 

She can't wait all day for what's left of Leareth's organization to get itself organized, either. Her patients are all leaking life-force continuously and if anything it seems to accelerate as they get weaker and weaker. Blai and Seldan have at least until tonight, she thinks, though neither would make it until dawn without further intervention. Nayoki might have until tonight, the Lesser Restoration apparently did a lot - well, did something - for her body's ability to absorb and benefit from Healing-energy. No one else does. Stef is in the worst shape - he's not very strong to begin with - and she's not sure he has another hour. 

She cuts it pretty close. Buys long enough for Dara to coordinate with Leareth's people, which is apparently an entire project, and get them all on the same page that Haven is no longer especially dangerous for them and has the advantage of containing intact buildings, and arrange to transport a bunch of their injured here. No one is imminently dying, but there are plenty of people who aren't going to make it without Healing attention, and people who will recover eventually but are incapacitated now and may be able to do something helpful once back on their feet. Option value. Shavri has no idea what comes next but it's almost always more helpful than not to have more people functional and more Healers freed up for other things. 

They can cram twentyish people into the room, around the beds and folding cots and the pile of straw for Seldan. (There are bits of straw in her hair now, somehow.) She has someone bring Stef within touching distance of Blai, before they make it impossible to move by filling the room with injured people. 

And then she prods Blai awake.

:Need a Lesser Restoration on Stef.: He's barely holding life-force at all now and she suspects that if they don't address that the channel won't even help that much. :Then channel, we've got as many people in range as we can manage.: 

She is the expert and he doesn't really know why Stef's important but he is not in a position to thoughtfully absorb this information anyway. He makes his way over to Stef, casts on him, and then grabs his holy symbol and does a bleary double-check of the room and his position before channeling. He has no idea what time it is besides "not dawn". Is there more tea?