:Meet me here.: Jisa pushes across a mental image and sense of direction. :Be discreet.:

Bloody spy shit. Clara is definitely not having fun– ...all right, fine, it's maybe a tiny bit exciting. Which is a terrible sign, but. 

Ten minutes later, Clara is up and dressed and slipping into a stable. There's a guard on patrol but he has three other doors to watch and she's a Thoughtsenser and can time it for when he's not looking. 

Ten minutes after that, 'Clara' leaves again.

(Behind her, a shimmer in the air is all that's visible of the illusion cloaking someone else. It might not quite pass muster in daylight, Jisa isn't that good yet, and it took longer than she wanted to get it even that close, but at least it doesn't leak to mage-sight. Clara still leaves footprints in the snow, but the new falling snow will cover them in a few minutes. The kyree will be able to cloak her as well as soon as she reaches the edge of town.) 

Half a candlemark later, the morning supply-Gate goes up, cast by a tired White Winds mage who doesn't look twice at the student Mindhealer carrying a satchel with a letter poking out of it. 

The sun is up in Haven and the Gate-site is incredibly busy. There are a lot of people who will see her go past, but none of them have much thought to spare for her. 

She probably can't pass for Clara in Mindspeech, but Clara has a weaker Gift and uses it much less often than Jisa does. No one will suspect anything if she only greets people out loud while she makes her way to the House of Healing. 

...can she reach ahead and find Melody's mind...

Nope! 

Not even in her office, or her suite? Both are shielded but Jisa is keyed to the shields. 

Nope! 

Maybe she's been yanked into a meeting with the Senior Circle, that would be annoying. Though mostly because Jisa has to find her; it's actually going to be easier to pass to the Heralds than in Mindhealers'. None of them know Clara. 

...Can she find Blai? 

Absolutely not. 

And she can't reach Enara; someone must have decided she ought to be behind shields. But at least Leareth thought he knew where Enara was.

Annoyingly, it's halfway across Haven and Clara has no reason to go there. Probably she can manage it anyway - Enara will know where Blai is, unless he's been moved since they dropped out of contact - though she should drop off her decoy "letter" for Melody first, to cover her tracks. 

She leaves it at the Healers' center station rather than risk running into Jeren, who might well try to Mindspeak Clara and notice something off. And ask a harried-looking Aber where Melody is. 

- yes, that's a flash of worry in his eyes, quickly disguised because he's talking to a trainee who isn't cleared to know anything. 

"I don't know, sorry." 

He's lying. 

Which...he wouldn't have any reason to do, if the answer was just "the Heralds stole her for secret meetings." That's - concerning. 

Clara sets off, clearly on her way to somewhere important. 

Jisa - doesn't want to do too much through the Web, in case it hasn't noticed her yet but might if she draws on it. She has about half of her White Winds energy left, though, carefully tucked away and hidden under her illusion and shields. She can boost her Mindspeech enough to start checking Heraldic meeting-rooms - the ones where she's personally keyed to the shields - for whether Melody is Mindspeakable in there. 

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not there either. Nope. ...Dara's in that one but no Melody. 

Where is she????? Jisa is starting to get seriously worried.

Half a candlemark later, she finally makes it to within sight of the stupid Barn. 

...damn it, there's a White Winds mage guarding it, aughhhh. 

She'll walk up like she has every right to be there, and hope desperately that the mage - Jihatta, she recognizes the woman - won't have any reason to take a peek with her Sight and notice something off about the illusion that Jisa herself missed. 

"Excuse me? The Heralds sent me to check something. Since Melody, um, isn't available. I only need a minute." 

The mage is not deeply familiar with Healers' uniforms and doesn't recognize the trainee shade. The girl looks absurdly young but so do half the people in charge here. 

"All right, go ahead." She'll unlock the door. 

:Enara! I've only got a minute or two - what's happening - where's Blai, that's the most important -: Private Mindspeech isn't detectable but opening her shields enough to pull Enara into full rapport might be, who knows, Jisa is a tiny baby Adept and has no idea what the Adepts who've been doing it for a decade can pull off. 

:Jisa!: 

Enara doesn't move. Tries to look fidgety and uncomfortable, since it's self-evident in the first two seconds that Jisa is here pretending to be someone else and, from context, probably pretending to be here to check her with Mindhealing Sight again.

What are you doing here is - also fairly self-evident, and it's less important to get Jisa's side of the story even though it's incredibly important. 

:You shouldn't be here. The Senior Circle thinks you're compromised. I don't know what happened, no one is telling me anything, but - something really bad - they've written off Van's negotiations, they're incredibly on edge, they're - grieving - I think someone died but I don't think it was Randi...: 

Please please please please let it not be Savil. ...It doesn't make sense for it to be Savil, Savil was clearly the one who put shields on this barn, and recently. 

:Where's Blai.: 

:I haven't been able to reach him since shortly after midnight, but -: She pushes across a sense of which Work Room it was. :They found out we could still communicate, I guess it was an oversight putting him in one you'd keyed me to - it was stupid, but I wanted to tell them to let him cast the spell that suppresses compulsions...

- what happened with Yfandes, is she stuck -?: 

Right. Enara wouldn't know, if they haven't told her. Yfandes was locked out of the Web. 

:She's dead. Leareth's people scried the road. We think it was a landslide. She was almost in range.: 

:Van?: 

:Hasn't tried to kill himself. Yet.: Should she say Leareth is with him? ...No, not worth it just to reassure Enara. :You don't have any better idea what - went wrong -?: 

:No. And neither did Blai, when we last spoke.: