Shavri is not in constant contact with a Companion, received only the most fragmentary of orders to get here from Randi's quarters as fast as possible, and - is not up to speed. 

:In k'Treva? Are they all right over the–: 

She sees the expression on Vanyel's face and cuts off.  

:No:

Vanyel can't find the words in himself to explain any more, right now. 

Shavri can read between the lines. 

She's not going to cry now. That would be stupid, in an emergency. She's not feeling much of anything. 

Savil: no obvious physical injuries, some degree of backlash, definitely exhausted with her reserves next to empty. Some kind of diffuse damage that she'll need to stare at a lot closer to make sense of, but overall in much better shape than she expected given Vanyel's explanation and the overtones that came along with it. 

How does Blai look? 

Radiation poisoned and a little burnt but with a startling amount of underlying robustness.

She's bouncing it to Vanyel out of habit, along with a note of ??

:Blai used his god-magic to Heal Savil earlier. I think Savil took a bigger hit, she was the one casting the Gate - Kellan said she was unconscious until the Healing.: 

Took a bigger hit and only has a normal human amount of life-force, which means it probably came close to killing her outright. Would have killed her, if she had been casting a freestanding Gate, or been a little bit unluckier. Shavri isn't sure what's going on with Blai's remarkable apparent hardiness, but it's convenient, the damage is a lot easier to look at when it's not half-Healed already, she can probably iterate and figure out what helps but she doesn't think she needs to be particularly worried about him. 

:How bad are you feeling compared to what's normal for you?: she asks him. She's very focused, with an almost creepy lack of expression in her mindvoice.

:I could use a channel but not nearly urgently enough that I want to expend the last one for the day without even filling up the radius as best we can. I think I need a Lesser Restoration but it can wait until tomorrow. I'm a bit weak and shaky, but functional.:

Shavri got enough of a report from Treven on the information Katri gathered from Blai early on that she's not completely confused by what any of that means. 

:There’s definitely some injury and there’s - something else, I think something is causing ongoing damage. Slowly, though, I’m pretty sure you’re healthy enough that your body would get on top of it given time. Is that what you think ‘Lesser Restoration’ would handle?: All she has is the unhelpful note from Katri that it helps with some conditions and doesn’t help at all with others.

:I think so. I'd be particularly more convinced of it if Delay Poison helps, it's good for clearing up a poisoning, though it's good for a lot of other conditions too, lingering effects of things.:

:I want to ask you later what sorts of lingering things it helps with.: No expression at all in her mindvoice. :I’m going to try something, it’ll take me a few minutes, tell me if it seems to be helping. You can keep having whatever conversation with Van in the meantime.:

Plausibly a Healing-Adept with Moondance’s skills could actually just fix the poisoning thing, given a the energy of a Healing-meld and a candle mark to work. Brightstar doesn’t have the training or the right balance of Gifts where that training would make sense - his Earthsense is a lot stronger than his regular Healing-Gift, making him better-placed to work on land rather than people. Also, she’s not sure if anyone has told Brightstar yet about—

Shavri has that thought and then puts it away like a dress she’s decided not to wear today and focuses.

Right. They’re supposed to be meeting to figure out what to do. Are they waiting on anyone else? It’s only been a couple of minutes, probably the delay isn’t because of some third emergency and it’s just that the others are hurrying slightly less now that it’s clear no one is dying and the bigger emergency is - too late to take urgent actions to avert.

:Savil? Are you up for - trying to think this through a little?:

He includes Blai, not that he really expects Blai to have useful contributions given his lack of context, but - maybe.

Savil scowls at him.

:Nothing makes any goddamned sense. … Leareth couldn’t have done that to k’Treva. If I’m right, and they lost containment on the Heartstone. Can you think of anything else that could have caused - that? A weapon?:

:Maybe? But my understanding if that - if the Heartstone was working properly, it should have been able to absorb and redirect an absurd quantity of power. It might be possible to overwhelm it, but - you would expect everything for five or ten miles around to be turned to slag, from the overflow the shields managed to turn outward first. You were only a mile out, right?:  

:Mmm. And it looked - bad, but mostly to mage-sight. The trees were apparently still tree-shaped and everything but I still can't See properly.: 

:That's what I thought. It came down from the inside. ...I suppose Brightstar would have known for sure, but I'm–: 

:Glad Brightstar didn't have to see that: Savil finishes for him. :And it might have killed him outright, with Earthsense as strong as his. - no, I don't know if anyone's told him yet.: 

:Later.: Vanyel's mindvoice is flat. :So it came down from the inside. But that doesn't make any sense either, a Heartstone hasn't lost containment in - centuries, right? Longer than that?: 

:Longer than that. It stopped when they figured out the failsafes.: 

Nod. :So - could he have gotten someone on the inside?: No need to specify which 'he' they're talking about.

:I've been turning it over and over, and - no, I don't see how he could have. Technically a single Adept could take down the failsafes and introduce a flaw, but it's not instantaneous - a minute, maybe half a minute - and a dozen of their most senior mages are keyed to those spells. There would be an alarm in seconds, they would have time to intervene.: 

:...Oh. Right.: Vanyel isn't sure he had known that, actually. It might have come up, but - it might not have while he was in k'Treva. Savil had - a lot longer with them. 

He shakes his head, slowly. :I can just barely imagine that maybe he could get a compulsion on one Adept, and hide it from the others. I can't imagine a dozen.: 

:No.

- still can't think of any other explanation, though -: 

(Blai may to notice that he's starting to feel very slightly better. Not really any less uncomfortable - Shavri isn't focusing on that, it's not life-threatening anyway - but maybe little bit less shaky?)