: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! 

(Aziza is willing to stay and her brother certainly prefers she not go haring off on yet more legs of journey than "to another planet".)

Leareth gets his first.

It does something! He doesn't really remember the first one but Nayoki implied it was more...dramatic...a change than this. It doesn't change how he feels physically at all, which makes sense. 

It...maybe...helps with some kind of situational awareness? He's not sure he feels less impaired but he feels less overwhelmed. He’s aware of the room— no, it’s not exactly the spatial element of being in a room in a building, it’s the being in a room with almost ten other people. Select Artigas is there! He had in some sense been aware of this, he hadn’t literally been unable to recognize faces before, but he hadn’t…had the space in his head to actually interact with it in any way. Herald Vanyel is also there, with both his Companion and his lifebonded. He still looks very stressed but that also should not be surprising. 

Nayoki is upset. Leareth was in fact fully tracking that Nayoki was present before, and it - feels like it should not come as a surprise that the situation is upsetting - but there was clearly some lineup of puzzle pieces that he had not at all been trying to assemble before. ...Mage-commander Ovada is still hovering at the back of the room looking like he isn't sure if he's still supposed to be here. 

Leareth has the thought that he ought to convey something to Ovada, to - reassure Ovada that Leareth is recovering and the situation is under control but it's appropriate to wait another day before Leareth is able to make high stakes decisions again and in the interim he can treat Nayoki as having command, just to remove the ambiguity for the man, and he drafts an entire sentence in his head - which works! - and he reviews it for 'will it probably have the effect of unconfusing Nayoki and Ovada on the chain-of-command ambiguity' and feels, though not very confidently, that it would, and then he...reaches for a wordless mental motion of - something, some way of holding it up against his other thoughts to ask himself if it's true and - possessing of some property that an utterance toward someone working for him ought to have - but he doesn't actually know exactly what the mental motion would have been because it stumbles instead. 

This is the most baffling way imaginable to be impaired! He can produce fluent sentences but not tell if he's being honest when he says them??? How does that even???? 

Leareth manages to form the thought that he needs to be acting as though he's very tired even though he isn't tired, and reaching for simpler thoughts, and he effortfully concludes that the sentence was not adequately representing his confidence or lack thereof that he will be functional tomorrow and the version that includes that uncertainty is...admittedly less reassuring...but it has the virtue of being more true. 

He Mindspeaks both of them privately. 

That seems like it has to indicate some improvement to Leareth's awareness of his surroundings and ability to take actions on purpose. 

...Nayoki gets her Restoration and instantly feels about a thousand times better. There's maybe something still very mildly off with the feeling in her hands but it's hardly going to inconvenience her. 

....Seldan immediately stands up, because that no longer feels effortful and is suddenly vastly preferable to the uncomfortable indignity of being flopped on the floor like some sort of giant rug. 

(Good thing Blai has finished combing his mane. Does his tail need work too?)

(Yes, definitely! And they can go to the stables at some point today, it's probably not the most urgent thing to do but Blai can arrange to be in possession of a proper curry-comb that is not Prestidigitated, and they've got stools for Heralds to stand on while combing parts that are hard to reach otherwise if their Companion is standing...) 

Vanyel gets his Restoration on Endurance and is abruptly no longer bleary or craving a nap and the thing distracting him most is the viscerally desperate need to take a bath. He can't believe he just went and put clean Whites on his absolutely disgusting body that has not been bathed properly in eleven days! Why would he do that? His hair is probably awful. Why didn't Stef say anything??? 

The second one doesn't feel nearly as good, since all the tiredness and presumably all the not-sticky damage is already gone and he's currently sitting comfortably and not actually using his legs, but Vanyel assumes it'll be more noticeable when it comes time to trek over to another building through the snow and he doesn't hate his life the entire time. 

And that's everything for right now! They should have one Restoration left, right, Gemma's plan is to save it for the rest of the day in case it ends up being critically important that someone who isn't currently in great shape urgently needs to be at full strength (the hypothetical that occurred to Gemma was that it would almost certainly fix Sandra's remaining disability that a Lesser Restoration didn't remove, and right now there's no compelling reason why a fully functional Sandra is more important than Leareth being incrementally less impaired, but who knows!) 

Anyway, she's going to determine who actually has the last Restoration for today, so she can make sure someone knows that they ought to be brought back to Haven to sleep even if everyone else is staying on the broder, and then in the interim she's going to declare them available for whatever plans Joshel had next, except for Khayr who she assumes is still asleep, and - make it Dara's problem by harassing Rolan. :Rolan, can you drag Dara over here to take these clerics to where they're needed?: and then confirm to said clerics that the King's Own Herald will be coming over to meet them in, like, three minutes. 

She would honestly really like to shoo all of these suddenly-healthy people. Well, Leareth probably needs supervision until tomorrow even if he's not having medical problems per se, and since he no longer has any of his secret underground bases in the north or whatever, there's not obviously a better place to keep an eye on him than the House of Healing. But everyone else can get out! 

(She is more polite about it out loud than in her thoughts but her impatience shows a little.) 

Well, they're apparently being evicted now that they're healthy? They should - possibly the highest priority is finding Blai's possessions, especially the magical ones which...probably...were in use as Gate-search targets and Jisa will know where to find them? 

Then Blai should catch her before she scatters. :Excuse me, do you know where my things ended up?:

Uhhhhhh that...depends...on what specific things he's looking for? - oh right! She does know where his weird magic mace is and she's happy to show him to that Work Room! They shouldn't particularly need it now that they have the Gate-routing and more specific search-targets than 'find a high density of magic with characteristics like this sample artifact.' 

If Blai has other possessions then...probably...the Healers know? 

...When was the last time Blai had his armor or his coat? Or Iomedae's holy book, or - he definitely had other possessions that Seldan does not have mentally itemized as clearly. Seldan is trying to remember - oh, no, was it up north, did they leave it behind in the bedroom they'd been assigned -