Jisa would ALSO LIKE SLEEP at some point, but it does seem like Vanyel is not up for figuring out what Brightstar knows. She will accept a Gate over and try to talk to him. 

..."Talking" to him is probably not a good word for it, he's really - nonfunctional - even once she gets Nayoki's clearance to block his Gifts and then pick out the set-command. (It's a very well-done set-command but she thinks it's actually less stuck in there than hers can turn out if she's pushing it as hard as she can.) She doesn't think he's trying to be unhelpful, so much as - not processing her presence enough to really try anything - but she can at least determine that he didn't teach anyone else to visit the Void and find Leareth's backup, and that the Iftelis alone don't have a good way to locate Leareth. 

(Jisa is going to be very upset about several things as soon as she has time to stop moving, but it's a terrible time to have a breakdown over how she nearly got Leareth killed because she's an inexperienced kid who stupidly froze up just because an emergency happened while she was trying to take a dump. Delaying finding out about any other risks to Leareth because she's too upset about it would just make it worse, so she puts a lot of redirects on herself about it and keeps going.) 

Vanyel is persuaded to try to get some sleep. He doesn't really feel like sleep is going to work - he hasn't actually slept since Yfandes' death - but he's exhausted enough that he's out within about three seconds of lying down and closing his eyes. 

Dawn arrives with no further emergencies. 

Blai wakes up. He is very cozy. He has a little bit of grace period to find the chamber pot and then he flops back down on Seldan to hold his sword-and-sun and tell Iomedae what's up. There is such a lot of stuff up, Iomedae, but hopefully less of it going forward. Thank you for not being mad about the magic horse. Sorry for even suspecting that You might be mad about the magic horse.

Nap Stack. Sleep deprivation is a very powerful tool for everything being fucked up and the folks in Haven need a counter and apparently, somehow, they have a very expensive pillow, already, though he'll need to inspect it to see if it'll work or if they need to sew more beads on real quick.

Endure Elements, two of those. Another Forbid Action because while it's not a popular choice and he mostly likes it because it's similar to his old domain power, it's apparently pretty useful combined with local Gifts in circumstances he certainly hopes they won't be repeating. And a Gentle Repose since they might get Yfandes's body somewhere he can cast on it today.

Another Minor Prophecy, another two Lesser Restorations for the King, another Owl's.

Guidance, Create Water, Light... either Stabilize or Detect Magic... he's leaning Stabilize.

Does that look like a good slate of spells to Seldan (why is Seldan already awake anyway), did he forget anything -

Groveborn don't need a lot of sleep (he could sleep a normal human amount and enjoy it but he won't suffer much for the lack) and Seldan is looking forward to watching Blai prepare spells, it seems fascinating. 

Stabilize sounds like a better choice! They're likely to mostly be around mages, who have mage-sight which seems like a strictly better version (and in fact Seldan thinks he has something mage-sight-like and just doesn't have the instincts for using it because Velgarth magic isn't convenient that way), whereas - brief poke in Blai's memories for context - Stabilize apparently does something that Velgarth Healers might only be able to do with great difficulty, or not at all, depending what someone is dying of. 

Stabilize it is (though it doesn't work on everything, like, a poison that affects Endurance can still super kill you even if someone's standing over you casting every six seconds). He is filling out the hour of prayer by attempting to sort of introduce Iomedae to Seldan even though Iomedae is not going to respond to this in any way. Also he's assuming he should get non-Iomedaeans for the scrolls and castings he needs and he'll probably go to Abadarans about it, but he plans to stop by the church of Iomedae in Westcrown, assuming there is one now, to give a report about All This Nonsense, so that is where any nudges should accumulate if he should do something nondefault. Amen.

Anything happen overnight? How are they arranging to meet Leareth for healing and an EE and a prophecy, and then how are they getting back to Haven to give everyone a nap?

"Overnight" was, like, two and a half candlemarks (can Blai also nap later with the Nap Stack spell?) but Seldan has gathered some reports! 

They're in contact with Waymeet, and Haven indirectly; Leareth sent in someone un-Gifted with one of the messenger-bird mage-constructs to ride in from five miles out rather than scare people with a Gate directly there, and then the Heralds in Waymeet eventually agreed to Leareth bringing in a couple of mages who can rotate comms-spell duty.

Jisa read Brightstar's mind and determined that, while he did have time to go and sabotage Leareth's immortality backup hard enough that he would have died permanently if they'd managed to kill him on the battlefield, he didn't tell anyone else how to find it and even if Iftel wanted to send another attack, without Brightstar they have no way to locate Leareth. It's not impossible Vkandis has enough forces still in Iftel to send a bunch of them north at semi-random anyway, but Leareth has dozens of bases across hundreds of miles, not to mentions underground records rooms scattered around the rest of the continent, he should be able to stay ahead of them for the week or so that Jisa think it would take him to repair the damage.

(As an aside, Jisa guessed that the girl in Blai's vision was the sister Brightstar apparently has, whose name is Featherfire and who lives in Highjorune, formerly a small kingdom that existed even in Seldan's time, apparently annexed by Valdemar in the last decade. This has got to be a really unpredecented rate of annexations, Valdemar also expanded north to Waymeet and west all the way to Lake Evendim in the last decade, doubling their effective population in the process.) 

Nayoki wants to transport them to Leareth in two hops just in case the Star-Eyed Goddess can still work through Brightstar somehow, even though the earlier Minor Prophecy implies She probably can't. Arrangements for that are ready when Blai is. 

After that, they can get a Gate back south from Leareth's people, probably directly to Waymeet, and get another Gate from there to Haven. Poor weather-mages, lots of work to do. (Seldan isn't actually feeling apologetic.) 

There are apparently also some surviving injured and set-commanded gryphons - ones that fell out of the sky outside of Blai's channel radius before - as well as some injured kyree who were dug out of the rubble, now transported to Waymeet. (Plus some miscellaneous injuries related to, of all things, several bar fights that apparently broke out amongst all the troops who were suddenly left at loose ends in Waymeet once the Heralds sent the order to stand down the war preparations.) They can probably all be fit into a channel radius, if Blai would like Seldan to send word ahead for them to arrange that. 

Vanyel is probably coming back to Haven with them but Jisa will stay up north with Brightstar. She thinks that under no conditions should they bring Brightstar back within the Web. 

Blai will be able to nap in the Nap Stack, yes. His sleep schedule will be all over the place but it kind of is already.

Blai would very much like to heal the surviving kyree and let them know that there are resurrections to be had once they can get clerics from Golarion. He is not quite so enthusiastic about the gryphons but if it's judged safe and they'll fit in the same radius he'll do it.

They'll still be set-commanded - this is confirmed, some of them were in the thirty-foot channel radius on the scene and were healed but not un-set-commanded - so it's not particularly a security risk. Ethically speaking, Seldan's feeling is that it's not like it's really their fault they were born in a country cut off from the rest of the world by a giant magical barrier and ruled by a god that sucks. ...They do take up more space than humans, though. He'll request that they be last in the priority order if there's not enough room to cram everyone in. 

- the person he Mindspoke about a Gate is asking if Blai needs breakfast before they go? 

It's not anyone's fault that they were born in a country ruled by a god that sucks! It just affects how useful they are to direct resources towards on a spectrum from "great investment" through "active resource sink".

Yes now that Seldan mentions it Blai would benefit from breakfast. Do Companions... eat... does Seldan need breakfast.

Companions eat! Seldan can manage until they get to Haven if it's more inconvenient to feed a horse here, though. Honestly, the thing bothering Seldan more is that apparently Companions get itchy if they do a lot of exertion somewhere hot and end up sweating and then are not brushed afterward. This is absolutely not urgent but it would sure be nice if there ends up being time later today when Blai has nothing more urgent to do than go over him with a curry-comb. 

Someone will bring breakfast for Blai - eggs and toast and stewed beans - and a bucket of oats for Seldan, if he can eat that? 

It'll do. 

Blai can probably Prestidigitate a comb though it might suck because of being Prestidigitated. If that would be better than nothing he can work on it while he eats.

(BEST Herald!!!) 

It's probably worse than a real comb designed for horses but Seldan doesn't actually have that baseline of comparison, having been a Companion for less than a full day and night at this point, and he does think it's better than nothing. 

Once they're done eating they can go through a couple of Gates to get to Leareth. 

(If Blai ends up worrying - on the level of things more like "what if Iomedae hates Companions" than "what if there are more gryphons", some worrying is in fact productive - then Seldan will throw mental chess at him, but they're not going to be waiting that long between the two Gates.) 

Blai is a little worried about more gryphons and also about whether Iomedae is going to have to try to do diplomacy with all these local gods while broke. He's not sure if it affects theopolitics that She's out of intervention budget but it would be sort of weird if it didn't affect it at all. Maybe he should pray to some of Her allies. He is not really sure who else is relevant, Iomedae has the excellent property of being relevant at all times because all things should be better than they currently are and that's Her thing, but like what is Erastil going to even care about, here. ...Shelyn please take care of Yfandes's body so that we can get her resurrected for Vanyel. That seems like a suitable Shelyn prayer. Abadar there is going to be interplanetary trade please help everything settle out here appropriately for that to go off without a hitch. Sarenrae, there is some room for some gods to improve as people, if that's Your thing. Amen.

(That seems like productive degree of thinking about potential future challenges rather than, uh, whatever you call the thing Blai's brain is sometimes doing at other times! Seldan does not try to interrupt with chess.) 

...It would be very neat if gods improving as people is a thing that could happen. That seems like the best possible resolution here, really. 

They can finish eating and go through two Gates in a row to reach the other base where Leareth is. 

Leareth is vaguely aware that he's been moved to a room with a bed in it and that Nayoki is there. And keeps reassuring him that he's not dying. He didn't think he was dying but he does feel impressively terrible. 

He's mostly been lying there frustrated that he can't think. It's not even that much that he's in pain - the headache is bad but being mildly scorched barely registers - but even apart from that, it feels like he has to push all his thoughts through glue. He doesn't really subjectively feel too hot anymore - at one point someone put cold wet towels all over him - he just still feels the wrong temperature, wrong in what direction is unspecified. 

He will still try to open his eyes and sit up when he hears someone coming in. 

:Hello, I'm here to try Endure Elements on your heatstroke if you're ready.:

(Leareth does not look like he's necessarily up for receptive Thoughtsensing to pick up on Blai - who is not a Mindspeaker himself - trying to think loud surface thoughts at him, so he'll bounce it.) 

Leareth doesn't know what Endure Elements is and so is having some trouble even getting that sentence to parse. He looks at Nayoki. 

She nods. 

:All right. ...Thank you.: 

:You're welcome.: "Endure Elements."

Leareth is now the correct temperature! It clearly isn't fixing anything else but it's kind of remarkable how much better he can think now that he's no longer intensely experiencing being the wrong temperature in an unspecified direction! 

He immediately looks somewhat more alert. :- I think that did help.: