:This is amazing! I want to try all the Adept spells right now!: They practiced the forms "empty" (with only a wisp of mage-energy) and she should now be able to use SO MANY techniques that specifically need the Adept White Wind energy. 

:...But right now I guess we should go talk to Van and see if I'm Gating you to Haven.: 

She could do it! Without even getting tired! She feels like she might be able to Gate across the continent right now! She shouldn't, she should be measured and thoughtful and responsible with the power granted to her by the universe, that's what the White Winds school is all about. But she could! 

:Congratulations.:

:I can cast illusions that don't show up to mage-sight now!: Jisa is bubbling over with excitement. :I could challenge another Adept to a duel arcane! I mean, I shouldn't and I can't think how it would come up, but I could!: 

They can go find Vanyel, though. 

He's sitting with the artifacts in one of the other cave-rooms and seems to be making notes, but he looks up when they come in, and then does a double take. :Jisa! You did it!: 

He scrambles up to give her a hug. Blai has probably not seen him smile like this at any previous point. 

:I did it! I think I've got it, now, I just needed Blai's spell to get through it the first time.: She has used Mindhealing on herself to a mildly irresponsible degree and is going to have the Weird Dreams again tonight but WORTH IT. :Did you get through to Leareth?: 

:Yes. it worked.: 

Glance down at his notes; he learned from his mistake and actually took them in real time, which to be fair is less awkward when talking via communication-spell rather than standing awkwardly in a cave. (This is admittedly also a cave, but it's a furnished cave.) 

:He checked his immortality setup and says it's fine - er, sort of, it's not damaged yet but he looked closer than he might have otherwise, because of the warning, and thought someone had - been there.: 

Jisa is abruptly not beaming anymore. 

:....So probably Brightstar already found it. But - hasn't decided to do anything with that yet? Maybe because something else hasn't happened yet?: 

:Or because it makes a lot more sense for the Star-Eyed to tell him not to do anything obvious until something was lined up that would kill Leareth's - current body - ideally before he had any idea something was wrong, since that would have a major effect on what risks he's willing to take.: 

:Well, at least that part seems a lot harder to set up now, so that's good.: 

:Mmm: 

Possibly Blai is not on board with it being good that Leareth is now less likely to get permanently killed by the Velgarth gods? Possibly he thinks it would be kind of convenient for everyone if their evil archmage problem got solved that way, even if the evil archmage in question is Lawful.

Vanyel is actually a bit surprised at the extent to which, now that his uncertainties have mostly all resolved in the same direction, it feels like it would be an AWFUL and UNACCEPTABLE ending to all of this for Leareth to permanently die. 

:You told him about the second prophecy?: Jisa prompts.

:...Yes. He didn't have a theory that made sense of it. ...He did say I should absolutely not try to take over the Heartstone by making a baby god, even if I could conceivably make it work at all there are a lot of safeguards and I don't know how to build them and they're important. He said that in my position he would absolutely not go to Haven, even if I'm worried that something is going to happen where Final Striking Haven seems like the best option - even if I have some evidence to think that! - because, er, these weren't his words but it might be a way for a godplot to corner me into doing something incredibly stupid.: 

:Well, that makes sense! I am on board with you not going to Haven if it means you might be somehow cornered into either destroying the city or making a baby god with no safeguards whatever that means!: 

Nod. 

:I still feel like we must be missing something that would make sense of it, but - maybe it's something that was only going to happen if we didn't have Blai or any prophecy information?: Shrug. :I told Leareth we need to be in closer communication with Haven and asked if he objected to sending Blai, maybe because he had planned to invite you north. Leareth said he wouldn't object, if we thought it was the safest option to be in contact, though - he did point out that the Heralds barely know you. But it seems worth trying. ...Also the main think he would want to ask you north to learn more about is your world's gods, and it sounds like your goddess' holy book is in Haven right now anyway, so someone would need to go back at some point to retrieve it?: 

:Yes, though I have two copies so if there's a local translation spell that works on text I wouldn't mind sending one up.:

:If anyone knows a way to translate text in a language from another world with our magic, it would be Leareth, but - I don't really expect it's possible.: 

:Hopefully we can send Blai to Haven and head off whatever horrible misunderstanding was going to happen otherwise and then have lots of time to translate it? Blai could just read it while a Thoughtsenser reads him, that would work.: 

:It's fairly long but yes, I can do that.:

Nod. 

:So one problem is that it would be good if we could be in regular contact, but you can't use the communications-artifact and it's way outside my Mindspeech range for contacting you - and I think I care the most about you being able to contact us if something happens. I had the thought that could Farsee a particular room regularly and you could write messages on the wall or something, except it's also outside my Farsight range.: And he would maybe slightly prefer if Blai could get messages to him even if the Heralds, say, decided to confine him in a cell for some inexplicable reason. 

:Leareth would probably lend you a scrying-artifact?: 

:Wouldn't be keyed to any of the shields, and I'm not sure how I feel about Blai writing messages to us on the wall of a room that anyone could be scrying if they felt like. - Blai, do you have any ideas?: 

:My idea is that we should not rely on my writing messages if you do not have a translation spell that works on writing.:

:You know, that's also a problem! You'd need to relay through a Mindspeaker and have them write it: and what if none of the Mindspeakers want to cooperate with that because everyone ends up very angry over some misunderstanding that hasn't occurred to him is possible yet, :and it's not ideal anyway.: 

He thinks. 

:...Feniss had an artifact to send Leareth a message, and she isn't Gifted. I think it only worked once, and I assume it was very costly to make or she would've had ten of them, and I'm - not actually sure if it was based on Thoughtsensing and language-independent? I could ask Leareth if he can lend us some, though.: 

:We could send one of our Companions, they're Mindspeakers but they can't explode. And - it's outside even Companion Mindspeech range for a single jump, but Van, you must have almost that range with Yfandes and I find it hard to imagine the barrier prevents Mindspeaking your own Companion. If I send Enara through a Gate with Blai, and Yfandes travels overland south until she can reach Enara, she could be a relay in the middle?: 

:That...might actually work. Are you sure you're up for being four hundred miles away from her?: