She can't risk trying to actually spy on the meeting Dara is in right now - the wards will almost certainly detect it - but she waaaaaaaaaaants to. She wants to knoooooooow. 'Something horrible went wrong and someone might be dead' isn't an answer. 

:You haven't sent the signal for Leareth to rescue-kidnap you and Blai. Do you think you're...?: 

:I don't think we're in danger from the Heralds, they just want us contained. I - don't know about the Heartstone - but it would be so escalatory -: 

:I know.: 

And they're running out of time here. 

:I need to go. I'll try to check if Blai is all right but I don't think I can afford to come back and update you, I'm sorry.: 

:I know. Don't worry about me. Be careful, and -:

She would say 'godspeed' but that's really the opposite of what they need here, isn't it, unless they're talking about Blai's god. Who is probably too far away to do anything at all. 

She goes.

She reaches ahead to the Work Room in question. 

...Savil was in a hurry and being sloppy. She revoked Enara's access, but not Jisa's. It must have seemed redundant, if they assumed Jisa was Leareth's prisoner in the north or something.

And Blai is in fact alone. She'd better get out as fast as possible after this, they'll find out if they send anyone in to question him, but - she has to know. 

:Blai. Are you all right?: 

:- yes. I was able to prepare spells around the blocks. Melody came last night and left a note here and took a copy away with her; I can - look at it for you -: He does this. :Can you see it, I don't know how this works.:

'Clara' is already hurrying back toward the area set up for a Gate-terminus, away from Blai. She has to push her Gift pretty hard to get through the shields enough to peek through his eyes. 

Further interrogation of Select Blai suggests alternate theory. Blai's report at face value incompatible with Death Bell. Should be less confident which side is a ruse. Could be Leareth lying, but Star-Eyed Goddess could have sent Changecreature & destroyed K'Treva. Heartstone modification affected Death Bell, could be subject to tampering. Consider possibility that Leareth is truthful & events in Haven are the trick. 

If I die in an implausible accident, I consider this evidence for the second theory.

Which would presumably explain everything if she knew what in the world had happened in Haven! 

:Um. Who do they think died.: 

:Vanyel. There was a Death Bell.:

:Oh. That - no wonder they panicked.: 

A pause. 

:He's not dead. He's - in bad shape - from Yfandes - I don't know, if you knew, that she didn't make it...: 

:It came up - eventually - they didn't tell me right away what had them so confused about my story but they heard the bell around the time we were relocating to the kyree cave. I don't have a way to guess how impaired he might be now.:

...Huh, so before Yfandes died, meaning that's not in fact what set it off. After Vanyel was behind shields and wouldn't notice anything, but - this move wasn't in response to sending Blai. It was a pre-emptive strike. 

(Maybe "in response to" doesn't actually make sense when Foresight is in play...) 

:He's pretty impaired but I think he can manage if we need him urgently.: 

Pause. 

:I have to go, they'll learn I was here if they send anyone in to mindread you. But, um. I think Melody is - in trouble - I can't find her anywhere, I think they're keeping her someone exceptionally secure, and the dean of Healers' was worried about her. So I'm not hopeful that her note convinced anyone. And they probably think Leareth got to me, I don't think I can de-escalate anything if I try to talk to the Heralds, and - Leareth needs my report more urgently anyway.: 

If she asks him then the Heralds will know as soon as they question him again, but - it's not like it gives away anything they weren't already aware of, that Leareth has the capability to kidnap Blai from a shielded room in Haven. 

:Do you want us to try to get you out. Obviously it would look really bad to the Heralds, and it's possible they're at least thinking about whether Melody's right, but - you might not be safe, here, there's still the Heartstone.: 

:Not for my sake. If I'm needed for something, make the tradeoffs that make sense, of course.:

:I think there's still a chance you could make a big difference here. ...If that changes, we'll - figure out what makes sense. Good luck.: 

And she drops the connection, which is getting hard to hold anyway. 

The next scheduled Gate isn't until midafternoon. However, the White Winds mage at the staging area is a young man, a fellow Journeyman student at the school when Jisa attended who has presumably made Master since then, and who - well, Jisa herself was taken by the time she went to White Winds, but he did his fair share of awkward flirting with the female students. 

Clara has prettier hair and bigger breasts and this, in addition to desperation, gives Jisa a confidence she's never had before. She is going to loiter and make conversation, and sneak in a complaint about how she had to deliver one message to the dean of Mindhealers' and couldn't even find her and now she's stuck here half the day. And then she will awkwardly flirt for dear life, and maybe if she's lucky she can convince this sweet boy (...he's older than her and actually older than Treven but he doesn't feel like it, somehow) to do an extra Gate early. 

Maybe by the time the war is over, it'll even be a funny story to share with Treven instead of a mortifying one

She's in Waymeet just past noon. And hoping she hasn't made things spectacularly awkward for Clara forever.

She has not been struck by lightning or had a building fall on her head. The optimistic explanation is that the gods know it wouldn't even work, now that she's a White Winds Adept. The pessimistic explanation is that it's because making it back with a report isn't even going to matter. 

...She had not entirely thought this through. Agnetta has apparently been looking for Clara for candlemarks and is furious with her for "running off on some godforsaken Herald quest" (which seems to be what she assumed since she certainly hadn't dispatched a message for Melody.) Jisa doesn't want to make things even more awkward for Clara and also there just literally isn't an opportunity to slip away; Agnetta practically drags her back to the tiny Mindhealers' station by the ear. 

:Aroon?: Is he within range, oh good. :I - kind of need to switch back with the real Clara.:

And swear her to secrecy on everything until further notice – she could send Clara back with a report on Vanyel definitely being Vanyel, but right now it feels like anything they try in Haven will go horrifically wrong and she doesn't want to mess up Clara's entire life. 

:Can you reach Hyrryl from here? Urgent message: they think Van's dead in Haven. The Death Bell rang for him. Make sure Leareth finds that out as soon as possible.: 

And she will grit her teeth and go in to see a random patient. If anything goes really wrong, she can do an unscaffolded Gate out from a closet or something, but she's made it this far without anyone suspecting and it would be so embarrassing. 

Everything hurts and Vanyel is drowning in it, and it doesn't stop, it goes on and on and on, but - 

- eventually, there's enough of a sameness to it that it starts to be possible to finish some thoughts. And Stef is holding him and that's - good - 

Also there's a redhaired woman in front of him? Trying to talk to him? Vanyel is embarrassingly unsure how long she's been there. Also his eyes are not focusing very well and for the longest time he confusedly thinks it's Melody. There's some reason that doesn't make sense but he can't make the thought hold still long enough to figure it out. 

...Eventually he manages to look at her enough to realize that it's not Melody at all, it's - she has to be a relative - why is Melody's niece here??? 

Clara is NEVER doing anything for Jisa preceded by the words 'do you trust me' EVER EVER AGAIN. 

She is a Mindhealing trainee and specifically Melody's student, though. She can keep a lid on the internal screaming long enough to be calm and reassuring in front of HERALD-MAGE VANYEL ASHKEVRON (????!!!!!) whose Companion is somehow dead. There...isn't a right thing to say, about that. 

He's not very coherent, which makes a lot of sense, but also aaaaauughhh why is this happening to her. 

"I could do a block," she says, during a moment when he actually seems to be kind of aware that she's there and maybe remembering the question he's answering for the duration of an entire sentence. "I don't know if it would help very much, but it might - be a little easier."

Sometimes patients just need you to do something and it's not even really that the thing you did helped, it's that it's - a way to feel like they have permission to feel better, or something. 

He needs to pull himself together, he's traumatizing the trainee Mindhealer who must be maybe fifteen and it's not like she can actually do anything to help. And that's not even the priority, there were - things - 

Focus. 

Can he manage to figure out some words to say that will get her to GO AWAY.

It's not that hard! Clara can read a room and figure out when she's not wanted and isn't helping! She haaaaaates Jisa right now. 

And then they're alone and he can think slightly more. 

Speaking out loud is too hard. :Stef, what did I miss.: 

Maybe the Mindhealing student Jisa sent them for baffling Jisa reasons did help. Stef is enormously relieved and tries not to show it. 

:Well, do you remember Leareth getting here?: 

That clears some of the cobwebs from Vanyel's head. :What? Why? He shouldn't be - why is he here?: 

:Jisa. She figured out your comms spell - took her candlemarks - and maybe she'd had enough by then and wanted to be able to just talk. And didn't want to leave you here, I guess. She's gone to Haven.: