That seems to be all Yfandes wants to ask about right now, though if Blai seems to want to talk more, she's listening.

Stef feels like he's extracted all the juicy gossip he can for now, or at least everything that Yfandes is willing to participate in. He's going to get some sleep after all. 

Guidance. Guidance. Guidance.

Eventually Yfandes relays that Vanyel is on his way back. The weather is somewhat better but it'll probably still be another couple of candlemarks; she thinks he'll get back just before dawn. (And presumably be exhausted, but she can wake Jisa at that point so Van can get some sleep.) 

:It's all right if you want to sleep some: she tells Blai. :I'm perfectly capable of keeping watch.: Probably moreso than he is; neither of them has mage-sight but she's at least a Thoughtsenser, and has the usual touch of Foresight that Companions do. :I can wake you ten minutes before dawn again if you need time to think about the spells you're asking for today.: She can't see the sky from here, obviously, but Companions tend to have a very accurate internal sense of time. 

:It would be a little safer to pick them now so that if something comes up and I am awoken by dawn's arrival instead I'm not caught guessing. I imagine I want a Detect Law, is there anything else in particular?:

:I guess you get the healing either way and you can convert more of your magic into healing in an emergency? The spell that makes you - immune to weather, or whatever it is - would be pretty nice to have, at least for the humans, Enara and I will be fine. And - do you have a way to do shields? More generally than just against fire, I mean. It doesn't seem impossible we'll run into more, er, trouble. If it's a god nudging us to just get really unlucky, I could imagine - I don't know, earthquake, landslide, wild animals, maybe running into bandits...: 

Pause. 

:I don't know if this should be a priority, but if you have room for it, and we expect you to be meeting with Leareth anyway, the prophecy spell on him might be interesting.: 

:I have a lot of protective spells I could prepare but they are generally shorter duration and much more specific than the shields mages do, and I can't get them up as quickly. Four Endure Elements, a Minor Prophecy, maybe a Snow Shape, maybe an Owl's Wisdom, and I'll do the alignment check by Aura Sight, it's a bit more informative.:

:Owl's Wisdom is for - thinking better? That seems like it could be a very good idea. If we're lucky we'll have - time to go somewhere safe and think and make our next decisions - but I don't know if we're going to be lucky.: 

:I could do two of those and lose the Snow Shape, I'm probably thinking about Snow Shape because if I'd had it today I would have used it.:

:It would definitely have been useful today but it wasn't critical that you didn't have it or anything. I think - being able to think about this clearly is probably more important.: 

Yfandes has an eidetic memory and can remember the whole list he decided on and remind him in the morning in case he wakes up groggy after his two and a half candlemarks of sleep. And he should really probably try to sleep now before it turns into even less sleep than that. 

She's not wrong. He wads up some of the cloak to rest his head on and lies down and sleeps.