:In principle not necessarily, but of course if I'm completely delirious, can't regain consciousness, or can't move my hands or speak, that would do it:

Nod. :Understood. ...You may end up too weak to move your hands, before the end, but - I think not very long before.: Speaking has got to be painful for him already, with the worsening mouth sores, but she hasn't noticed him flinching or delaying casting spells about it, so it seems like he can cope with that aspect. 

Nayoki finishes writing and immediately gives up holding onto the pen and paper.

:I have written down all of the reference information and location instructions I am aware of for Leareth's prior work that is only in private notes.: That she knows about, of course, but Leareth trusted her to access his records caches, and had actually given her a list of documents to collect for him "sometime in the next few days" since he didn't expect to have a chance to get to it sooner, and then of course he never had a chance to get to it at all. :It is from memory, obviously, I had written it down but did not have it with me when we had to evacuate. But these are the research notes he said might be relevant for the problem. It might help you go faster.: 

Oh. That's - wow - possibly Jisa should feel something other than absurd levels of excitement and !!!!!!! over getting to read Leareth's private unpublished magical research notes but !!!!!!!!!!!!

:Thank you: Blai tells Nayoki when it's not obvious anyone else is going to get to it first.

:I should really have thought of it sooner.:

Nayoki is so - not exactly tired-tired, she still feels like she's been stuffed full of extra sleep like a Midwinter-feast goose stuffed with chestnuts and apples, but...tired of this. Tired of being in pain and nauseous almost all the time, tired of finally managing to fall asleep through the discomfort and being woken half a candlemark later by someone else vomiting. Tired of - feeling alone, it's stupid how jealous she is of Blai and Seldan having each other and Van and Stef having each other, but there genuinely isn't anyone she would actually want with her who isn't either incredibly busy doing more important things or, well, Leareth. She's tired of half her thoughts bouncing off the abortive motion of 'oh I should remember to tell Leareth about that later'.

It's not that she likes the idea of getting snatched up by the Shadow-Lover god either, but - maybe at the very least They would make her soul talk to Leareth's soul, if They're still trying interrogation, and - then Leareth would see someone he knew. Seldan said he wouldn't remember any of it but Nayoki still kind of feels like it matters. 

:You and Brightstar should read my mind and go over all the conversations I had with Leareth about his work: she tells them. :Then I - I think I am the least necessary person in this room. And if you are only needing four Lesser Restorations a day, there will be more room for other spells.: 

...Yeah. Seldan was right, they didn't need to have the awkward conversation at all, Nayoki was already most of the way there on her own. 

...is there some customary form of euthanasia or do they just withdraw care and wait for her to crash on her own?

That's a great question! How does Seldan have absolutely no idea what the answer to that question is!

He - suspects that Shavri will quietly approach Nayoki and ask her what she wants, and he's pretty sure that the thing Nayoki wants isn't to see how long it takes before the lack of daily Lesser Restorations means she can't hang on for three hours in between channels anymore, even if this would be kind of medically interesting to know. Shavri definitely has the skill to just...keep Nayoki asleep with Healing while she stops her heart. And, based on everything else he's observed about her lately, she has the stomach to actually do it. 

...Maybe he'll check with her later tonight and make sure she thought of it and informed Nayoki of the option. 

That's more elegant than just having somebody cut her throat, yeah.

....Indeed. (If Seldan has any other thoughts about this being what came to mind for Blai, he keeps them to himself.) Healing is handy that way.

Fun fact that Seldan learned through the Companion grapevine at some point: around ten years ago Vanyel used that trick to assassinate some renowned Adept on the other side of the war with Karse! Everyone shields against mage-attacks but almost no one walks around with shields up against Healing, why would you– well, probably Leareth did, because probably he'd been assassinated using that exact method at least once... 

Jisa and Brightstar and Leareth's researcher go off to quiz Nayoki about the notes and read her mind for anything Leareth mentioned to her when thinking aloud that Brightstar might be able to make headway with. 

(Dara leaves; it seems like there's nothing much for the Heralds to do here, except the usual 'keep Valdemar running'.)

Nayoki is being so very perfectly professional about interacting with Brightstar. 

Vanyel spends a while watching them with a hard-to-read expression, and then eventually seems to decide he has no useful contribution to make. He curls up with Stef again and goes to sleep. 

Seems like Blai and Seldan can probably go back to sleep too? They're not going to be needed until tomorrow morning, and - oh, he should tell Shavri that from here on out she had better wake them a little while before dawn and tell Blai in very simple words what to prepare. Today they would be able to remember the plan but...that could change, at some point, and better they already be in the right habits.

(To Blai: if it's the kind of thing that might help later if they're both a bit delirious but together can add up to an entire functional person, Seldan probably can stay in close rapport while Blai is praying for spells, the way he would if they were solving some kind of very difficult puzzle. He hadn't done that before because...he's not actually sure why, some mix of 'it felt like it might be private' and 'he's not entirely at ease around gods' but Iomedae is a very different sort of god.) 

Blai doesn't think Iomedae will mind.

He snuggles up and sighs and goes to sleep.

His Herald is very very good and...it's been a long time, actually, since Seldan remembers noticing any negative reaction in Blai's thoughts to having Seldan in his head? Seldan has mostly been having all his feelings where Blai can see them, whereas four or five days ago he had still been doing a lot of filtering because it all felt very new and delicate and he didn't have a good mapping of his Herald's sore spots. But Blai hasn't been...stressed about Seldan judging him for anxious thoughts (which in actual fact are almost all reasonable thoughts in a genuinely dire emergency, it's just that he doesn't seem to have a different emotional mode for non-genuinely-dire-emergencies), Blai doesn't seem to mind when Seldan is protective and at least acts like Blai's feelings definitely matter even if he's not harping on the point verbally... 

Also, if they're going to have the right habits to operate as a single functional person when they're both mentally worse off than this, he had better start building that habit properly. Fine. Full rapport at all times from here on. Maybe it'll help, who knows. 

He half-wakes some number of candlemarks later; it's the usual Healing-trainee harassment about drinking fluids. 

Nayoki isn't there anymore. 

Ginger tea yes healing-trainee sir.

He registers Nayoki's absence, has three tired half-thoughts about bad things this could mean, and then remembers that they probably euthanized her and just hopes they didn't stupidly go bury her or something.

Shavri knows the constraints just as well as they do. So do a lot of people at Leareth's organization who are desperately procuring absurd quantities of diamonds for resurrection. They've got it covered. 

Shavri wakes them both five minutes before dawn, puts warm sweetened tea in Blai's hand and watches to make sure he can actually hold it - she's not sure - and gently but crisply goes over the spells they want a few more times. She'll leave some openings if Blai wants to interject, but she's carefully trying to set it up so that he doesn't have to, and will come away from it with a concrete list of spells to get even once he's too bleary to engage with any problem-solving. 

Create Water like they discussed, and Guidance and Stabilize. (He's got a much better chance of casting it if woken abruptly than Vanyel does, and also Vanyel is more likely to be the one unexpectedly dying; she doesn't go into her reasoning with Blai or Seldan unless they ask). On reflection, she wants four Remove Sickness, so Seldan can get the full hour for once. A second-circle summoning and three Lesser Restorations in his remaining second-circle slots. (Shavri spend a while debating this with herself, but her original plan of 'prepare Remove Sickness in a higher-circle slot to leave room for a first-circle summoning' seemed dumb given that the second-circle summoning is actually better.) A fourth Lesser Restoration in his third-circle slot, and if by chance he happens to get a second slot at third circle, Protection from Energy. (Shavri debated internally, and with Gemma, whether to go with that or Remove Disease, but no one actually looks like they have a disease yet, and by tomorrow they might, and they mainly want Protection from Energy for demo purposes so Leareth's mages can replicate it, it doesn't matter that much if Brightstar isn't ready to use it for actual Gates to the Elemental Plane of Fire.) 

Blai nods and, head gluey, gets into an approximate kneeling position and reaches out for his goddess. He has all those orisons already. He's got Light in the fourth slot? Is that stupid? Should he switch it out? He could be doing Virtue on himself and Seldan even though Van and Stef are all the way over there... Summon Monster II. Four Lesser Restorations...

...there's his new slot. Protection from Energy.

Seldan thinks Virtue has got to be more helpful than Light, they have mages who can cast Light, but he's going to get in the habit of checking things that feel obvious, because that's the right habit to have when you expect you might end up doing things while kind of delirious later. 

:Shavri is Virtue more helpful than Light?: 

Shavri had actually completely forgotten that Blai has four orison slots!!! That makes sense. Virtue is better than Light.

(Oh that's wonderful that he has another slot! That could be really helpful later, if he can get two Remove Diseases a day then everyone can get one every two days, rather than once every four days, and at some point that won't be enough but it should, in fact, buy them time.) 

After Blai is finished, she's going to find out from him if he actually needs to be out of bed kneeling to pray. If it's important they can have the trainees help him once he's too weak to manage on his own, but if it's not strictly necessary then he should maybe just do it in bed starting tomorrow. 

Today Blai is praying about triage. There's... lots of it happening here and that's probably interesting? He is not very smart right now but he has been trying to do that properly. He hopes it was not evil to euthanize Nayoki, it doesn't seem like it should be but Pharasma's Pharasma. Is looking at all the triage free even if She can't do anything? Maybe they'll do it right, and win everything. Or maybe they die and Brightstar blows himself up and nobody ever makes contact in which case he hopes he's been good enough to meet Seldan in Heaven. Does it cost intervention budget to grab Seldan into Heaven - like, if the alternative is the Shadow-Lover's weird limbo, that is, that doesn't have much effect on the material plane -

Seldan is right here. He is also not very smart right now and mostly what he's thinking is that he has the best Herald. With a little digression of wanting to kick Pharasma in Her presumably-metaphorical god-teeth if She hypothetically objects to - he assumes it was Shavri - asking Nayoki what she wanted and giving her that. Seldan does not know exactly what happened and he hasn't asked because he very strongly suspects Shavri has no desire to talk about it. He has a few flickering thoughts about - he thinks he wrote a treatise that included a meditation on situations not entirely dissimilar to this, once, though it would presumably have been in a more military context because he wasn't a Healer. There are some interesting thought-experiment angles you can poke at it from. Seldan doesn't really want to right now. He's just glad they have Shavri and very glad that they got Shavri caught up on sleep, that turned out to be a great use of limited resources even if they'd forgotten it wouldn't help them...