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Does Jisa want a bunch of Guidances, he doesn't know if it helps with this kind of thing but it can't hurt.

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It doesn't help with reserves, but it does help her feel less incredibly out of it, and after a couple of minutes it occurs to her to actually apply her brain to the problem. 

...Can't light a fire in here even if they had firewood, nowhere for the smoke to go, but there might be supplies...maybe blankets...they could at least get bundled up in something that isn't damp...also there might be food in the saddlebags up with the Companions and that will help her recover faster if someone can go get it…someone who isn’t her, or Stef, who’s curled up in a ball against her shivering, he really can’t handle the cold very well…

She exhaustedly conveys this to Blai. Stef is huddling up against her, and he probably weighs like half what Blai does and he really can't take the cold very well. 

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He nods and makes a run up to the Companions to confiscate their bags.

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There's food in the saddlebags! Including some dried fruit, which Vanyel carries specifically because it's easy to eat for quick energy if he's just exhausted himself overusing his Gifts. 

The records cache is very full of stuff! Mostly carefully boxes on shelves filling most of two walls, labeled in a language Blai can't read, but there's a larger crate without anything locking it over there and Jisa can confirm it's not magical other than some low-energy spells that are probably for preservation. 

(If Blai tries to open it, he'll find a bedroll and warm cloak and a couple of blankets, and underneath that a wrapped package of some kind of extremely durable nonperishable bread/cracker, though that looks a lot less appetizing than what's in the saddlebags.)

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Blai does open indicated boxen and gets the others under blankets and dons a cloak and puts food in front of Jisa.

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Jisa is not at all sure she can eat food even if she tries, but she manages three bites and then her body remembers to be ravenous. 

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It does get a little warmer just from their body heat; it's not a big space and it's very well insulated. Their breath is still steaming in the air but it's no longer below freezing.

 

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Blai paces helpfully.

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And eventually Jisa is fed and rested enough that she can manage a short-range Gate! Getting the Companions inside seems more important than a heat-spell, they can radiate a really impressive amount of body heat if they're trying. 

(They get an update from Yfandes: Vanyel is in Waymeet, he thinks everything will work out but it could take a candlemark and he still has to get back, he does report that they're doing weather-working and avoiding overnight Gates and probably the blizzard will clear by morning?) 

...Jisa is going to take a nap after that. She'll be better off in even just a candlemark if she's slept a little, and hopefully Blai can wake her right away if there's another emergency, but she doesn't think there's any possible way she can stay awake until Van is back. 

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Stef isn't sure he can manage to sleep. He's warmed up, and fed, and shortly later BORED. 

 

...Can Yfandes helpfully hold a Mindspeech so he can at least talk to Blai? Great. 

:So how did you end up becoming a cleric of Iomedae? Does it just happen one day, like Gifts awakening?: 

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:Well, She had to select me. I think sometimes the timing is more informative - happens to people in the middle of particularly well-aligned prayer - but I just woke up one day with Her available to give me spells.:

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:Huh! That must have been really weird. Did you just - already know how to use the magic even though you'd never had magic before?: 

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(Yfandes is being a helpful translator, and she's not especially trying to read all of Blai's surface thoughts in the process but she's going to pick up some of it in the process of figuring out which parts he's intending to say to Stef.) 

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:...cleric spells are instinctive but I was not unfamiliar with magic.: HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO FUCKING SAY IT, ISN'T HE. WHY IS THIS HIS LIFE.

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Stef is at all capable of noticing if someone doesn't want to talk about something but isn't calibrated on reading Chelish people. Also he's not Jisa and he doesn't actually care. 

:Huh, why not? Do they make everyone study it just in case or something?: 

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WHY COULDN'T IOMEDAE HAVE GRABBED HIM WHEN HE WAS FIFTEEN SO HE COULD HAVE BEEN TORTURED TO DEATH AND MALEDICTED INSTEAD OF THIS. :I was a cleric of a different god before. He dismissed all His clerics a while ago. A few weeks later Iomedae picked me up.:

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:What, seriously? Does that happen often? Seems kind of rude of Him: 

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....Yfandes is at this point somewhat concerned but, uh, both in the direction of feeling like Stef is accidentally being awful to this poor man, and worrying that maybe they should really know whatever the thing is he's upset about talking about. 

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:Not en masse. It's normal to renounce a cleric who commits misconduct out of line with the ethos of their deity or whose alignment drifts too far out of step. This was - everyone at once. I think He was trying to conserve intervention budget with respect to the treaty that limits how much action gods can take on the material plane.:

(augh augh augh augh augh)

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Ooh that sounds like it could be juicy drama. Stef hadn't even considered the possibility that you could know enough about gods to have gossip about them. 

:Oof. I guess at least it wasn't personal. Did your god lose a fight with the other gods or something?: 

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:He's not mine now.

But yes, I think so.:

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...Okay he is maybe getting the slightest hint that this might possibly be an uncomfortable topic for Blai. Which would, you know, make sense, even if it wasn't really personal. 

Unfortunately he is Stef and not Jisa and this mostly makes him want to poke the topic harder. 

:Do you miss Him?: 

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:No.:

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:Why not? Did He give you worse magic or something?: 

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:- well, yes, actually, but: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh operate openly operate fucking openly what if they decide to just murder him right here and then they all die the next time a local god sends a natural disaster and then there is a war and Leareth ascends as a new FUCKING LAWFUL EVIL GOD. :mostly because He's Evil.:

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