Once Blai is back in bed and in the line of effect, Shavri would like Van to use his second channel of the day now, before they prepare to carry him plus Stef and Nayoki over to their new temporary Nap Stack beds.

...Actually, no, nevermind, she wants one of Blai's channels. Because it will top him and Seldan up much further, just in case the Nap Stack does seem to really help and she ends up wanting to leave her patients in it for a lot more than two candlemarks, at which point it would be kind of a waste of a channel for Blai to need to use one of his on just himself and Seldan. 

Very well. Channel: bam.

Vanyel and Stef and Nayoki are successively carried out of the room. It's just Blai and Seldan now, with a junior Healer parked next to each of them holding a link. 

It's quiet. Seldan could be using this nice uninterrupted quiet with a guaranteed absence of unexpected sick-people noises to do some thinking. But he's very tired and it feels a lot easier right now to be reactive. At some point people be expecting a meeting and then he'll have to Lead A Meeting and he's done that on no sleep before, it feels weirdly more possible than just...thinking...in a quiet room with nothing immediate to react to. 

Whether fortunately or unfortunately, it seems like they're going to have something to react to!

Brightstar comes into the room. 

(If Shavri or any of the senior Healers were around, either in the room itself or in the hallway or central station, they might have stopped him. But none of the junior Healers and trainees currently holding the fort and waiting their turn with the Nap Stack have the slightest idea who Brightstar is.) 

Brightstar doesn't seem hostile. Just...half-stunned. He looks around uncertainly, then Mindtouches Blai. :I need to talk to you.: 

OH SHIT THAT WAS WHAT HE FORGOT TO ASK JISA

OH SHIT

Who knows Brightstar is here. Who is supposed to know where Brightstar is. Blai is on... stalling him... by talking to him... he guesses... while Seldan figures that out??

:What is it?:

Brightstar fidgets and seems to need a moment to think. 

First off, Seldan is VERY GLAD he's been instinctively keeping Blai 'under' his mind-shields when they're in close contact, because Blai is weirdly hard to mindread against his will for an un-Gifted person but he does not, in fact, actually shield on his own, and Brightstar might get suspicious if Seldan had to try to pop his shields out to cover Blai belatedly. 

As it is, Blai just has to act normal, which he's entirely capable of doing because he's Chelish and no one who isn't Chelish will ever notice that he's having an emotion just from his face. Who knew that would be so useful. 

:Rolan is Brightstar supposed to be in Haven?: 

Rolan was out by Companions' Field, more than a quarter-mile away, and is very surprised. 

:You are supposed to be resting: he chides Seldan. 

:Yes but Brightstar just showed up in the House of Healing! Which is when I remembered I forgot to ever ask why in the world Jisa had him with her when she Gated Leareth over! Is he supposed to be under guard?: 

:...My Goddess sent me a vision: Brightstar sends finally to Blai. He continues not to look like he's about to try to murder anyone. Mostly he looks...sad. And confused. And sort of dazed, like someone who just stared directly at the sun for a couple of minutes and now can't quite focus on things around the afterimages burned into his eyeballs. 

Well that explains... an extremely wide range of possible behavior so it's not actually reassuring basically at all but it's sooooort of explanatory. :A vision: he prompts.

:He was supposed to be staying with his sister: Rolan sends after a ten-second pause. :...He was not being closely guarded. Enara tells me that he helped with the attempt to rescue Leareth.: 

Um!!!!!

:Why did Jisa involve him in the first place?: That sounds like a terrible idea!!! Jisa may not always come across as the Wisest of people but she's not a complete idiot and she doesn't lose her head under pressure, why would she–

Another pause while, presumably, Rolan puts out feelers about this too. It does not seem like he's been closely tracking the situation. 

:Apparently Jisa convinced him to help by promising him that Leareth would pay to resurrect his parents once he could reach Golarion.: 

What. 

- nevermind. Seldan doesn't actively bounce it at Blai, he doesn't want to distract him, but they're in rapport so it's right there if Blai has the attention to spare. Seldan starts looking for Jisa's mind to ask her what in the world she was thinking and if there's some very good reason why this was less of a terrible disaster plan than it sounded like. 

(He should possibly let someone nearby know that they could be in danger, but all the Healers he trusts to definitely not freak out are in the Nap Stack and it doesn't, yet, seem like enough of an emergency to justify waking them and costing them a proper rest. Brightstar seems pretty calm?) 

Brightstar seems to need a solid fifteen seconds to process whatever he's trying to say. He looks like he might be in the grip of a godheadache. (The Star-Eyed is worse at sending visions than the Shadow-Lover is at talking to mortals, especially when the nearest Heartstone is hundreds of miles away.) 

:...She told me that She - destroyed k'Treva - because She thought it was the - the best path to kill Leareth forever and - and She thought - we would understand that - if She could have asked.: Brightstar's mindvoice is hesitant, almost fragmented. :But that - She realized - it was a mistake. She said She was...not sure it was ever worth it? That - maybe it was important for, I think She meant Leareth, to die, but...maybe there would have been another way...? And She said that She, She did not understand, how much it would hurt Her people. She said that She - was sorry - for hurting me. And She said that She - loves me, and wants to, to fix it, to - make it right -: 

Brightstar is shaking, hugging himself, tears leaking from eyelids squeezed tightly shut. 

....Okay, maybe not calm exactly but - wow - that's so many apologies! What! 

Why is any of this necessary to tell Blai! Why was that what Brightstar decided to do with this information! :That sounds - overwhelming: he volunteers, based more on Brightstar's evident overwhelm than on any objective belief about how much one ought to be whelmed by this eventuality.

Maybe he was looking for Vanyel and settled for Blai when Van wasn’t interruptible? Or maybe it’s the thing where absolutely everyone around here seems to have concluded that Blai is an expert in dealings with gods in full generality. Which Seldan doesn’t really feel is unreasonable, Blai does give excellent advice, because he has the beeeeest Herald, even if it’s admittedly rough when this means his Herald has to give people advice when he feels awful.

Brightstar doesn’t especially acknowledge Blai’s response. After a long pause, he goes on.

:She said that - my parents, all of the others, are - somewhere safe and good? …And She said that - She cannot see, now, to act - but that She trusts me to serve Her and I should, I should, do as I think is right -:

:..and now you are thinking through what that might be?: he guesses. Somewhere safe and good - does the Star-Eyed have a better setup than the Shadow-Lover's holding repository, or is She lying, or did She send them all to Nirvana like Blai suggested to the Shadow-Lover back when -

:She should not trust me!: Brightstar wails in Mindspeech. :I have terrible judgment! Jisa said so! I make bad decisions and I - get people killed horribly - and I will find a way to do something else horrible and ruin everything! No one else trusts me anymore! Why does my Goddess even still want me?:

well, the Star-Eyed, also, has terrible judgment and gets people killed horribly

well, Blai, too, has made bad decisions and spent quite a while objectively untrustworthy with moral choices

why is any of this falling into Blai's lap, that's the question.

…There’s a lot to sort through there but at least Brightstar seems to be willing to admit that some things recently didn’t go well? 

Seldan doesn’t really have advice any better that “you absolutely did screw up, kid.” There’s probably something better to say but this isn’t really one of his strengths, at least not when he’s still this annoyed with someone.