:Nayoki, what do you think?:

Nayoki is tired and why are they still here having a meeting with neither a nap nor her promised Restoration having happened yet? 

…Gemma is going to send another trainee to collect the clerics planning to cast Restoration. Jisa will just have to pick something before they get back, and like she said, they’ll probably have to do the rest tomorrow anyway.

:Does it affect - being able to feel at ease or in control around people?: Nayoki asks Blai.

She’s developing a suspicion that Leareth is finding that a lot harder than usual, but she asked in private Mindspeech if he wanted her to make sure they had somewhere for him to rest after this where he could have his own space and that got a confusingly vehement “no” so she’s not sure what to do.

:Plausibly? Saves against enchantments are backed by Wisdom but Splendor might help more with the nonmagical social level:

…Maybe she can convince Gemma that they don’t need to save one for emergencies all night, and hit both of Wisdom and Splendor because she thinks the part that’s upsetting for Leareth proooobably in that general area and not so much the being slower than usual at math. He didn’t seem all that bothered or surprised about the math, it was - something else was bothering him at the same time. And it could be either of “feeling less observant and able to reflect on things than usual” (even if she wishes her average Mindhealing patient had anywhere near the ability to describe what’s going on for them that Leareth demonstrated just then) or “being unable to speak eloquently and be assertive and feeling out of control around people.”

(It makes perfect sense to Jisa, at least, that Leareth wouldn’t want to go hide by himself given that he died by himself, having tried to call for help that didn’t come, and Jisa feels kind of awful about that.)

Ugh. What kind of emergency would even call for specifically a Restoration, for injuries you’d want— well, they could decide that Sera needs one after all, if they in fact want her to do anything today, like maybe there's something they need to know about the base where Leareth died and Nayoki can't be interrupted and everyone else was unconscious for a day before the attack? That specific thing doesn't seem incredibly likely but Jisa feels more of why Gemma doesn't want to run them straight out of the option, especially if Leareth is going to be resting today anyway because even if they hit both of Wisdom and Splendor just in case he still can't use his hands or do math properly. 

"Leareth?" she says. "Do you know what would help more, if the choices are - uh, being back to usual on how observant and reflective you are, or back to usual on how well you can communicate and be assertive with people?" 

Leareth tries to consider it and mentally stumbles and - no, there are too many blurry pieces that aren't resolving and he is, in fact, frustrated and upset and scared, and there's supposed to be a thing he can do about that to - not - but he can't seem to find it at all when there are so many other things happening. 

"...I think I am impaired and you are less impaired and it makes sense for you to decide," he says. 

"That makes sense." 

But was it a question he couldn't answer because he couldn't reflect on the problem, or did he get stuck on the step of communicating that assertively? It doesn't seem like it can be a Cunning problem, patients who can hardly do mental math at all can still answer questions like that - she was watching his mind and she thinks he was doing the - reflection - but she can't see very well what's going on "underground" and she's not sure if he's failing to think of anything or not being sure if what he's thinking makes sense or if he's mostly stuck on the feelings-to-words bit. 

...She's not Leareth, but if she was in his place it would be driving her wild not being able to communicate whatever thoughts she was having coherently and assertively, that sounds like the worst. It's probably still less important than the Wisdom one if he were mostly trying to work on Gate-research but he really shouldn't be doing that anyway. He's going to be stuck in the House of Healing needing help to drink water, it seems really important that he can be assertive and handle being around people. 

"I think we should try Splendor first," she says, though not very certainly, and bounces it to Blai and Aziza who continue to not speak Valdemaran. "And I'll try to persuade Gemma that we don't need to wait all night, if we haven't needed the second one for an emergency by evening then I think we're not very likely to at all?" 

She is not very sure of this at all, and waits a beat to see if anyone wants to have an argument with her about it. 

Nayoki is pretty confused about the breakdown between the different mental abilities, it doesn't feel natural at all in her head, but - it seems the most important for Leareth to be able to cope with being around people. She's not at all sure that that's actually the Splendor thing - or maybe it is for most people and Leareth is weird, it really wouldn't be the first instance of Leareth being weird and doing things with his mind in bizarre ways - but Jisa seems to be modeling it as more likely that and Jisa is. A lot less sleepy than Nayoki is. 

She doesn't choose to argue it. 

Jisa can see Leareth's brain and Blai can't, he's not going to argue with her.

Vanyel is still mostly kind of confused that Leareth didn't want Cunning, he...thinks of that as Leareth's entire thing? And it feels very central to what it means to be able to think properly? 

He's not the one who's a Mindhealer, though, and it's hard to think about the details because of the part where it's really upsetting that he'd thought they'd won, he thought they were going to fix it, and it doesn't yet seem all that fixed.

He ventures no objection. 

Seldan isn't sure that he knows present-day-Leareth all that well, yet, people change a lot even in just twenty years and it's been six hundred. He...would probably have guessed that Leareth doesn't lean all that hard on the thing they're gesturing at with "Splendor" – he can certainly be persuasive, and the Companion-herd gossip hints that a lot of the Heralds were interpreting that as having terrifying levels of the "good at assertiveness and being in control of a room" skill, but Seldan doesn't really think that's it, and he speaks as someone who has definitely abused that skill before. But maybe the same amount of damage to a skill that isn't really someone's thing is worse, in a way, if they're starting out with less of the thing and the loss is proportionally bigger? Anyway, he's also not a Mindhealer, and Jisa doesn't seem incredibly sure but it's not the highest stakes decision, if it's just 'deciding what to address now and what to leave for tomorrow morning'. 

Great! A decision was all Gemma wanted and anything at all informed by an actual Mindhealer has got to be better than "literally random" or "just fix his nerve damage because Gemma can actually see that one with Healing-Sight".

She'd like to get this done with speedily so that their lovely helpful clerics can be freed up from "hovering near the House of Healing" duty and stop making Gemma anxious that the Healers are failing at interworld diplomacy due to this not being anyone's job

(It would be nice to keep one of the first-circle clerics in Haven in case, like, another bridge drops someone in the river or something explodes and a bunch of injured people get dropped on her and it happens after Blai and Seldan inevitably hare off on some other very important mission which feels bound to happen. She finds Aziza a lot more...legible...than the Abadaran ones, and having successfully calmed Shavri down - what did the young lady even say? - has left her feeling warmly inclined despite the grouchy brother, and Vanyel clearly wants an opportunity to talk shop with someone from his unexpected new religion. She's not going to push hard for it but she'll try to discreetly check.) 

Restorations!