....They can attempt to make a visual illusion separately of the three-dimensional projection of the material plane / Void / elemental plane model for each elemental plane? This is the schema they're using to– 

Brightstar gets what they're doing, he's the one who did all the Gates to take the measurements they're using in the first place, it's obvious, he does not need them to say math words he doesn't know at him about it. 

He stares at it....can they make the one for the Elemental Plane of Air really big, so he can walk inside it - okay now he wants Fire really big - can he hold both of them in his head at once....almost, but there's no workable path that just touches Air and Fire...

(Did anyone teach him how to do that or is he just like that somehow???? This one researcher has seen Leareth approach problems that way, it's not - intrinsically an impossible thing for humans to do or anything - it's just baffling that this kid who clearly has zero formal education in any kind of mathematics can do it...) 

:Hey Shavri. Can Blai still cast Guidance. Brightstar could use some tonight.: 

no that's not fair that wasn't Shavri's plan for tonight

:Seldan, can Blai still cast Guidance?: 

Mmrgg? 

:I think he'll be able to as long as he's rousable at all.: What with all the tens of thousands of times he's practiced it. 

Here's Brightstar.

Shavri picks up Blai's limp hand and puts it on Brightstar's arm. 

:Blai wake up cast Guidance on this man.: 

"yessir," Blai mumbles. "Guidance." Is he allowed to have some tea now, he's thirsty - if he can cast Guidance does that mean he's allowed -

He can have tea. Shavri will hold it for him to help him drink it. He's allowed to cast Create Water if he wants but the tea is sweetened and very gingery and it should help. 

(Shavri hates everything.) 

Seldan is awakeish and in rapport with Blai but "existing while awake and being in rapport with Blai" is about all he's up for right now. 

He drinks the tea. He flops on the inexplicable horse who is for some reason an ontologically good horse. He goes back to sleep.

Brightstar goes back to the huge Work Room they have set up with a bunch of fancy artifacts that make it easier for the mages to hold really complicated illusions. 

He paces. He stares at projections of the different Elemental Planes against the Void and tries to fit more of it into his head and snaps his Guidance in the process and he can't, quite, see it yet, but if he just - 

:Blai wake up cast Guidance on this man.: And more tea without his having to ask. 

About twenty repetitions of that, actually, on average every fifteen minutes or so but sometimes it's five minutes and sometimes it's forty minutes later. Shavri wants to sleep but apparently this is what she's doing tonight instead of sleeping and it's - it's not as though it's nearly as bad for her as it is for them - she does, at one point, ask if they can just fucking go back to the border but apparently the Work Room illusion-setup Brightstar demanded is a lot less portable than the researchers.... 

Wait didn't they already - why does this man whoever he is make Seldan feel so conflictedly angry-yet-hopeful - whatever he doesn't need to understand. Just be here. 

"Guidance." Tea.

"Guidance." He accidentally casts it on himself instead of Brightstar; that's what his reflex is. He expects to be punished for this but that doesn't stop him from re-casting, on Brightstar this time, popping his own spell on calming down so that he can accept whatever's about to happen -

"Guidance." Tea.

"Guidance. Create Water." He gets it all over himself, though some gets in his mouth.

"Guidance."

"Guidance stacks with Prayer, Vicar, should I -"

Shavri will clean up water as many times as she has to without complaining. 

Blai says something in a language Shavri doesn't speak in the slightest and she tries to poke Seldan and does not get a very coherent response and instead uses Thoughtsensing on Blai directly to figure out whatever the fuck he just said in case it's important.

She kind of regrets it afterward. She tells Blai, calmly, numbly, that they just need the Guidance and he should do it and go back to sleep. 

It'll be over soon, she tells herself. One way or another. 

:I have it.: 

:- what, really?: 

!!!!!!!

What are the coordinates, they can plot it and estimate the distance - 

Brightstar has not at any point tried to make sense of their notation system and has no idea how to tell them in numbers. He thinks he can cast it? Probably?