Gemma would at this point put at least nine in ten odds of it working fine, because Blai must be right that it's surely come up before and if it didn't work he would have been clearly warned not to make that mistake? But she doesn't want to make too many assumptions about another world, and it would be really awful if they wasted a spell because she was too lazy to check thoroughly enough. 

Oh here are the other four clerics! Including the one who's a cleric of Nethys who she has Heard Rumors will just Know Things. Have any of them ever heard of a Raise Dead failing because someone's body was frozen solid? 

None of them have ever heard of that but none of them are that sure they would have.

Gemma really feels like this should either be obvious from the spell itself - which doesn't help her - or taught in cleric school or something. She's going to feel SO stupid if it fails because somehow no one thought to include in cleric school that you have to thaw bodies before you try to Raise them. 

...She knows from basic first principles that dead people will cool down to the temperature of the room within, like, a day. Haaaaave any of the clerics Raised someone more than a day after their death, in a climate and at a time of year where a room is comfortable rather than unpleasantly hot (she heard Joshel's recent complaints about deserts in summer and can imagine a body in Sothis being at a reasonable internal temperature for a living person, though also you would really, really not want to keep it like that for even one day, the smell would be awful). If so do they recall people waking up dangerously cold, cold enough to be confused and drowsy, and needing to immediately be bundled up and given warm drinks and such? Because a completely reasonable comfortable room temperature is still low enough to be actively dangerous as the internal temperature of a person's body, and if this isn't universally known then the spell has to be warming people up anyway. 

Khayr has raised a person on a boat in port in Absalom which is pretty temperate, and he'd been dead for two days, and did not complain of cold on waking.

Meanwhile, Blai gets his Remove Radioactivity.

...........he is absolutely fucking ravenous and would like to eat a chicken pie the size of his head.

Shavri is so happy. They should get all of the patients whatever it is they want to eat as soon as possible! They're all half-starving and the spell clearly didn't fix that!

(For specific things like a chicken pie the size of Blai's head, it'll be, like, half a candlemark, while they send a trainee out to find and purchase it, but in the meantime he can have...soup? And bread? Those are what they have available at all times at the House of Healing.) 

Vanyel would eat an entire baked fish the length of his arm right now. Does Shavri remember that one recipe with the creamy sauce? The one that has some kind of nut ground up in it? 

Stef was honestly mostly distracted thinking about his SONG which is going to be SO GOOD, but he could definitely eat! Preferably foods that he can hold in one hand while he writes down song-ideas! He wants a sausage roll and a cheese roll and one of those apple-filled pocket pies.... 

Being a horse now is a little disappointing because apparently Seldan mostly just wants hay - well, he would really prefer to go for new grass but there isn't any due to it being winter. So hay, and he'd like to be grazing on it nonstop for the next twelve candlemarks please. 

Gemma chews on the question of whether she can risk not thawing the bodies, and then remembers that Yfandes! Was fine! And the stillroom isn't below freezing but at this time of year, without anything happening in it such that Sandra would have put a weather-barrier up, it's not that much warmer than freezing either and Yfandes should have an an immediate very serious health problem if she hadn't been warmed up. Gemma is now fairly reassured that this isn't a problem and she does not need to figure out the best way to thaw an entire body in a reasonable number of minutes. 

:I do want to get an exact count of how many Restorations we have between all of you: she says to the assembled clerics. :It's going to be less of a problem with most of the other casualties we're planning to Raise, but today's are people who died of the progressive damage syndrome, so we were planning to Raise at least the three top-priority ones first and then decide how to split Restorations between the people we just healed and the ones we're about to Raise.: 

Everybody's fifth-circle slots are full of Raises and Khayr spent his fourth-circles on Remove Radioactivity,

, as did Raad, so they have those available in case Raise Dead like Heal does not fix """"radioactivity"""" (the spell incantation shares a sound with "remove sickness" and "remove disease", so PRESUMABLY whatever was wrong with them is the "radioactivity" part); the fifth-circle trio filled up on Restorations in those slots instead, so they have seven Restorations they can cast if the dust is available.

Blai will settle for soup and bread. (Can't Seldan have, like, oats and apples as treat?)

(He can but he doesn't really want to right now! It's weird! Possibly his horse digestive system has just really had enough of the cooked oat-and-grain mash, he thinks it's not really that healthy for horses to eat only grain, you're supposed to feed them mostly the sort of hay and grass that's - completely inedible to humans, huh, come to think of it he doesn't have the faintest idea why horses can digest hay when it would be nutritionally useless for Blai to eat it. Maybe Shavri knows. Anyway, it's - hm, it's not that the hay "tastes" "delicious" precisely it's just very, very satisfying in some way that isn't strictly taste, mmmmmmhay....) 

Great. That's enough for one per person if they only Raise Leareth, Nayoki, and - what was her name again - Healer Sera, and use the rest of today's Raises on people who died of normal injuries that a Cure would fix. 

Uh. Is anyone absolutely sure they in fact know which one of the bodies is Healer Sera? And can definitely still recognize her after she and the others have been dead for ten days? They did not that Gemma recalls label the bodies. 

...They did not, and Shavri isn't actually...sure...that she learned the three Healers' names properly at any point, but surely Ovada will know. If that's the plan they should perhaps consider putting the other two back in the shed. 

But she just went to so much trouble to move them inside and they definitely can't use those cots for any living patients now without first sending all of the linens to the Palace laundry that's a good idea. Though they might as well wait, maybe it'll turn out that people come back without too many problems and they don't all need a Restoration immediately. 

Ovada can be summoned to identify Sera. He doesn't hesitate to point out one of the bodies in particular, the woman who - before she was dead and frozen, at least - had honey-colored skin and long black hair sprinkled with grey. 

...Okay. Just to double check, their plan based on the advice that Raad got from Nayoki's soul: Sera first (and they can use her as a test case for what additional healing people need right away), then Leareth and they should specifically have Vanyel come over to be a familiar face, then Nayoki last? 

That sounds correct to him.

Time to do this, then!

Shavri is aware that she doesn't strictly speaking have to be present for it, but for Sera in particular she's probably the last face the woman remembers seeing before she died. And also she really wants to see what it looks like to Healing-Sight when a currently-dead body becomes, instead, alive! 

Ovada should also be present, probably, if they have room. At least the person they're bringing back first is unlikely to immediately demand an explanation for everything he's done and then lecture him about it

Gemma is in possession of a truly spectacular quantity of diamond dust, courtesy of Ovada, and is also ready. 

Khayr will do this Raise. He'd like to get his slots for the day used up so he can go have his nap soon, he only needs two hours but he's pushing those two hours later than he would by preference.

Sera wakes up in a bed, feeling fairly disgusting. Since the last time she was conscious was also in a bed, and also feeling disgusting, this isn't actually confusing at all.

Her most recent memories are...vague. 

They didn't get Leareth out in time. That's the first thing that comes back, the blow of it - she doesn't, she doesn't know what to do with that, still - not burst into tears, she'll scare the Healer and disturb the other patients - 

...she's actually really surprised to be waking up at all. She hadn't - she remembers thinking that she wasn't going to make it, and she - well, it was understandable that she wasn't one of the people they most needed alive, and she was too bleary at the time to even really be hurt, and now she's just - blankly confused.