"I last saw him down that hall on the right."

...Gemma was worried about somehow getting in the way and was standing back with Joshel just outside the door, but probably Yfandes could use a familiar face. She ducks back in. 

"He's - a lot of things happened and I can't honestly say he's fine but he will be. Let's get you down from there, I think you want to - turn like so and get your left back leg down first..." 

Yfandes is no longer injured at all - she feels diffusely off in some unclear way she can't pin down but it doesn't interfere with moving her limbs - and she can get herself off the slab with some coaching. 

She thanks the man again because it really feels like she hasn't done that enough and she has so many questions but that can wait. She walks out, because it's not the safest thing for a horse to attempt anything faster than a walk in a confined space, but she's out and now she can feel him. 

:Van are you -: 

:Where are you - are you all right -: 

:I'm fine - I'm coming I'll be right there - I'm so sorry -: 

:It wasn't your fault none of it was your fault: 

:That's not - that doesn't matter, I'm still - I'm almost there -: 

Vanyel isn't actually trying to get out of bed and run to her because, one, he did not get a Restoration and doesn't think he can, and two, a Healer would yell at him. 

She gets there soon enough, anyway, and she's - he - Vanyel does not look particularly all right, at all - Stef is there, Blai and a - Companion she doesn’t know? what? - are there too and only look a little better - what happened - doesn't matter right now - 

:I'm back, it's all right, I'm not going anywhere: 

Sobbing not-especially-coherent Vanyel trying to wrap himself around her neck, ignoring the fact that this hurts pretty much every part of his body. 

....Just so Blai is aware that almost certainly doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's also normal for non-Chelish people to cry when they're very very relieved and happy. No he also doesn't know why that's a thing. 

Well, it's a slightly pleasanter flavor of being Face Yelled At he guesses.

Vanyel is really not all that coherent right now and it takes Yfandes about three seconds to be pretty sure that he's DYING and another five extremely frantic seconds to determine, via Mindspeaking every Healer in the room at once, that he's not imminently dying right now and they have a plan. He is nonetheless clearly groggy and feeling awful and she’s not getting much out of him that makes any sense except 

WHAT 

She Mindspeaks Stef and Blai and the mystery Companion. :Van thinks Leareth is dead - how - what -: That’s not a thing!!! 

Oh yeah that happened. Stef is pretty confused on a lot of the details due to the having been trapped in the Foresight dream and going straight from that to dying slowly for the last week.

Trapped in the - what - what did she MISS

:Blai what happe— wait is that your Companion???:

:Seldan. Delighted to meet you, welcome back.:

Blai got the Restoration and Seldan is kind of feeling the Mindspeech-overuse and Stef does not seem to have gotten caught up. Maybe Blai can fill Yfandes in a bit if he’s feeling up for it. 

:Yes, he's my Companion. He was something of an emergency Shadow-god intervention, as I understand it:

An intervention to accomplish what— no, that much she can actually guess.

:You ran into trouble in Haven? And they wouldn’t listen to you as a random foreigner from another world, so you needed one of us as the mark of guaranteed trustworthiness.: There is perhaps a hint of bitter sarcasm in her mindvoicd.

:Oh right yes that. They thought Vanyel was dead. A sympathetic miscommunication as those went, the Death Bell rang for him. False alarm, obviously.:

:I…see: Yfandes manages faintly. :And we - did we go to war -?: Not that that would explain how Leareth DIED. Vanyel didn’t do it, obviously, he’s right here and not a post-Final-Strike smear of ashes and he’s also clearly incredibly upset about it.

That was over a week ago and there were SO many things and Seldan is brainfoggy. There was the earthquake and they rescued Leareth - Blai almost drowned in the river, he thinks that was later - Blai help? 

:We did not go to war. Brightstar attempted an assassination and succeeded at making Leareth no longer immortal, there were earthquakes involved, we went north to assist, we apprehended Brightstar safely, I did some prophecy spells and thus were able to head off some potential future issues, Seldan and I fell in the river and I met the Shadow-Lover but She sent me back, the Heartstone was shut down, Leareth began research on how to reach Golarion, he and Vanyel fell unwakeably into the Foresight dream, I was able to prepare an obscure spell to feed them and also Stef who joined them, Brightstar received some - updates - from his goddess. Iftel... exploded. Which caused the progressive damage syndrome the four of us presently have and some have died of it already, including Leareth, who Gated away but was then not found to be treated until it had progressed more. Vanyel is now a cleric of Shelyn. Herald Joshel and Queen Karis also received empowerments from Abadar and Sarenrae respectively. Others including Brightstar took up Leareth's research and found Golarion, which brings us to today; Cicerone Raad just Raised you. You will feel a bit weak and worse at things until and unless you get a full Restoration:

Yfandes waits patiently for Blai to finish even as the questions pile up. 

Brightstar did what? How?? Blai almost died, oh no, poor Seldan, was the Shadow-Lover any less frustratingly cryptic— more things! They shut down the Heartstone?? Why - oh, she can put that one together, if the Star-Eyed Goddess was hostile and the Heartstone access was how She had fooled the Death Bell. 

Stef had mentioned being stuck in the Foresight dream offhand but not— that doesn’t actually leave her unconfused.

Brightstar again, what -

Iftel did WHAT??? How? Why? …it does, at least, seem like something that could kill Leareth, and apparently BRIGHTSTAR of all people had already -

Who in the world is Shelyn - another Golarion god presumably - it does explain the weird…thing…she couldn’t make sense of in Van’s mind. Good for Joshel. …Wait, Karis works for a Golarion god now, how did that - well, Iftel EXPLODING must have been an unpleasant surprise, a betrayal even…

- Brightstar again. Brightstar did what this time!!?? It’s clearly good but she’s so confused!!!

It takes her another whole minute to put her thoughts in order.

:Do we have a way to raise Leareth and are people, er, in agreement that we should, or not so much?: That seems like the first question. Vanyel is so upset about it and that makes so much sense now that she knows - well, somewhat more of the story. She does not feel like she’s even close to the whole story.

:I believe they plan for him to be in the next batch: