....Leareth should possibly not have impulsively mindread the powerful clerics from another world and he's not sure it makes it better that, unlike the mind-Gifted people in the room, they apparently failed to notice at all - there's a thought that starts to form and doesn't quite together, like there would normally be more...something...to build it out of and it's not quite there... 

Leareth tucks his Thoughtsensing away and - no complicated thoughts right now. He doesn't feel injured or ill or even especially tired and that's throwing him off but he does know how to operate while impaired. 

"How long has it been?" he asks Sera. In Valdemaran, since apparently they're in Valdemar. 

She takes a deep shaky breath and lets it out. "Eleven days. The Gate took ten. I was dead until fifteen minutes ago. Natan and Olli didn't make it through the first night either. Nayoki died a few days in. They're getting her next."

And Vanyel is in the room and seems to be upset about something, but it would be pretty obvious if it was a broken lifebond, so Stef is alive. And…it takes a frustratingly long time to piece together the note of confusion, but - they must have gotten Yfandes first thing, good, because if Van still had a broken Companion-bond that would also have been…loud.

The next question is “…Select Artigas and - his Companion, are they -?” Speaking works fine, Leareth isn’t short of breath or struggling more than a little bit with enunciating words, the problem is just that his mind is repeatedly sticking for a moment and only producing the words he wanted after a second of delay and he’s not used to that, at least not until he’s been awake for thirty candlemarks, so he keeps forgetting to structure his speech with room for pauses.

That would have been such an obvious thing for Sera to ask Shavri about before and yet she didn’t think of it at all! She would have thought the Golarion clerics would Raise their fellow Golarion cleric before anyone else, and assumed that he’s alive now even if he wasn’t for an interlude, but she doesn’t actually know - helpless glance at Shavri -

“They both survived the wait and got the main problem healed this morning,” Shavri says, a little flatly. It’s still a little bit of a sore spot. 

Raad heard the name "Select Artigas" but doesn't expect Leareth to be able to understand him if he reports on it, he doesn't know if this is one of the telepaths or not.

They did survive but NO THANKS TO VANYEL

:- Can you even hear yourself right now, love?: Gently. :You wouldn’t let Shavri get away with guilt this misplaced, if she came to you for an ear.:

No but that’s— fine. Yfandes is probably right. As usual. 

Leareth feels like he’s lost track of at least one puzzle piece here, and he’s needing to retrace his mental steps to figure out what he was confused about - he doesn’t think it was that to begin with but it’s also pretty spectacularly confusing -

“How did you solve the Gate routing in ten days?” This time he remembers to just speak slowly so his mind can keep up. “My median timeline was three weeks.”

“Brightstar was critical for it,” Shavri says. “You would’ve been splitting your attention, he worked on it around the clock for a week. …There were also some very unsafe Gates to the Elemental Plane of Fire involved. It was only doable with channels every three hours - Van has six a day.”

It’s finally occurred to her that she’s leaving the foreign clerics out of the conversation entirely. Leareth seems to prefer not-Mindspeech right now, but Shavri can send them all a condensed summary of what Leareth asked about, and then echo her spoken words to them in Mindspeech.

"Would you like the next person Raised now?"

Oh right Khayr was on duty all night for the Remove Sickness-y effect and would probably like to slip out for some rest soon.

:Yes, I think we’re ready. - she should come back in better condition than he did, closer to Sera.:

“We’re going to get Nayoki next,” she tells Leareth.

“Of course.”

Leareth tries to sit up and - runs into a surprising degree of difficulty, which again catches him off guard what with the not feeling ill or in pain at all. He’s a little weak, like he spent a long time in bed with an illness he’s only just recovered from, but the main problem is that he instinctively grips the bed rails for leverage — or rather, tries to, and instead one hand misses entirely and he bangs his knuckles in the process, and he overbalances and topples back and has to start over.

With a lot more intense concentration on the task, he can manage to sit up without needing help - Sera tries to reach to support him and he shakes his head - but he’s having to compensate for his hands just. Entirely failing to do what he wants unless he’s giving it his full attention, at which point it still feels like trying to work when he’s been out in a snowstorm with no gloves and no weather-barrier for a candlemark. 

“…I think a lot of the nerve damage was sticky,” Shavri says quietly. “There’s a spell to fix it but we only have six left today to cover everyone.” 

Leareth nods. At least mage-sight seems to be working, and he can watch the spell when they Raise Nayoki. He’s curious. 

They're being very profligate with the diamond dust. Raad did not personally retire because of an injury that would have been too expensive to Restore but he knows people who did.

"Raise Dead."

"Remove Radioactivity."

Well, it’s not like it’s Shavri’s diamond dust, Leareth’s staff just keep handing them sacks of the stuff

(Joshel did muse to her that the price will probably equalize a bit more once all the gem-merchants and jewelers in Velgarth catch on. But right now, in Velgarth, diamond dust is mostly a byproduct of turning diamonds into a pretty but otherwise-useless luxury good, that the jewelers don’t have all that much use for though it’s worth keeping for the occasional noble lady who wants a painted miniature with sparkle, and the initial diamond-procurement teams were able to take it off their hands for a particularly affordable price.)

Nayoki is indeed not nearly as badly off as Leareth was! She wakes up and can guess more or less immediately what happened and the general context. Her most recent memory is quite clear and not at all ambiguous.

(She asked if Shavri could give her a double dose of argonel. Shavri said that at that point she might as well keep Nayoki asleep with Healing and stop her heart. Nayoki, if she recalls correctly, said “in that case, why would I want to be asleep? Nobody else will know what that is like and come back to report on it”, and then proved for posterity that she could count off seven seconds in Mindspeech with her heart no longer beating before the point where she stops remembering anything.)

She endures six seconds of nausea and trepidation that apparently her body came back with the problem still there??? But they were going to have better healing, too - and there, it’s gone. She’s tired and weak and not that enamored with the idea of using her Gifts for much, but she sits up, determines that she can do so with - a lot less difficulty than before, at least - and then sees Leareth.

It worked! He’s back and - they won - it’s all right now -

It does help to see Nayoki sit up, alert and herself and apparently not having nearly as many problems after her ordeal. Leareth nods to her.

:I think that’s everyone we wanted to Raise first thing today?: Shavri says to Luminary Khayr. :If you need to get some rest..: Shavri should really also do that, though she’s feeling a little bit inclined to hover and make sure Leareth is actually all right.

"I do have another prepared, but perhaps it can wait until after my two hours." He goes and finds his sword guy, who slept during the night and therefore knows where to go.