...Vanyel is actually going to sit this one out. It would be really embarrassing if he ruined it for everyone by having a nightmare and accidentally setting something on fire. 

Blai can be later, sure.

Casting time of one minute. Here goes.

Savil is very much looking forward to getting a full night's sleep in two candlemarks, but she's not too tired to watch with mage-sight and see what this bizarre powerful magic from another world looks like. 

It looks like him holding the pillow and waving it through the air in weird patterns while a necromancy effect emanates therefrom.

That's very cool but Savil can't really tell anything about how it works from watching, it's too strange. She'll still watch intently the whole time, though. 

Heralds go into stalls. Savil curls up beside Katri's Companion and closes her eyes. 

Companions of Heralds in this sleeping block will arrange to stand outside the stables and make sure no one tries to go in and accidentally wakes their Heralds. 

...Also it sounds like Dara is outside and would like to ask Blai about something, if now is a good time? 

Yes, now is fine, he'll hop back on Seldan from the stall divider he was standing on and ride out to meet her.

She looks even more tired than the last time they spoke, but less upset. (The situation is not really better, exactly, but logistics are soothing and she's been doing a lot of that.) 

:I - we - were wondering if you might be willing to talk to Queen Karis. About, um, your world's experience around - how sometimes gods aren't Good and do things that hurt people.: Dara is carefully NOT framing it as "Blai's personal experience with having worked for an Evil god." :She's - I think she wants to be on our side, but she - she's conflicted, she was loyal to Vkandis and - thinks she owes Him for helping take back Karse from the corrupt priesthood and end the war a few years ago...: Shrug. :And I don't think any of us really know what to say.: 

:I... don't know that I can guarantee any particular quality of result but I'm willing to speak to her if she wishes.:

:She was open to it.: Another shrug. :And, I mean, I don't know if it's fully rational for her to listen to your advice on serving gods more because you saved her daughter's life, but - you did save her daughter's life and that meant a lot to her.: 

Oh gods is this going to involve accepting face-screamy-foreigner expressions of gratitude. Are there going to be tears. :Would this be now or are you arranging a later appointment?:

:After you have a chance to Heal Randi, but if you didn't have other plans, there's not much reason to wait, she's: not exactly 'under house arrest' but after recent events she has not been incredibly involved in the Heralds' planning, :- not busy.: 

Seldan thinks it's a good idea. He hasn't met Karis but - from everything he's heard about her secondhand, she's a thoughtful, careful person who was trying very hard to do the right thing. He thinks she would get a lot from - the general way that Blai reasons about things, he's not sure he can pin it down better than that. He doesn't think it's just Law, he's not actually entirely sure if Karis would read Lawful, but it's - the broader concept-space that arises when Law is something that exists and can be perceived directly, distinct from Good. 

...Also she's definitely not going to cry. That is not the reputation he has for her. She might be "face-screamy" by his standards, it seems like everyone here must be with the possible exception of Leareth, but by Valdemaran standards it sounds like she's very controlled. 

:Then I suppose I should go cast my Restorations.: Some idiot subprocess of his brain considers kicking Seldan into gear. He is not going to kick Seldan! Seldan is not a fluffy black Worldwound-breed horse! Why did he even think that!

Habit? It's a habit that some number of Herald-trainees start out with, apparently, if they were nobleborn and rode horses before (he is still circumlocuting around using "Chosen" to describe the class of thing that Blai is now) becoming Heralds. You can do a sort of mental kick-equivalent thing in Mindspeech and he's heard that's what some Companions will do to break the habit, if it irritates them enough. It doesn't seem like Blai actually needs that as reinforcement, though. 

They can ride back to the King's suite to cast some more Lesser Restorations on the King and see if it helps some more. Well, Seldan can convey him to the right building and then drop him off at the door and wait outside because he won't fit, and two of Leareth's mages will follow Blai in in case assassins jump out of a cupboard or something. 

Shavri is looking significantly better rested than when Blai last saw her - Randi had a much better night than his average for the past six months - and has a real smile for Blai. :Glad you're back. He's actually awake now, so you can meet properly - come on in.: 

(The mages will come into the suite - otherwise they won't be able to watch Blai through the shielding on it - but stay out of the King's bedroom, that seems rude and awkward and it's not like they can't still intervene if something happens, which seems extremely unlikely now that they're here.) 

King Randale is still very thin and pale, but he's sitting up in bed with only a few pillows for support, and smiles at Blai. :We're very grateful that you could come.: 

:It's fortunate that the various logistics worked out for it. I have two Lesser Restorations today. They can be aimed somewhat at what Golarion magic identifies as the basic features of ability - I assumed with the first one that Endurance needed the most help but if you would prefer I aim one or both instead at Strength or Grace or even a mental ability I can try that, I don't know exactly what course your condition has taken.:

:Huh.: Glance at Shavri. :I didn’t know physical abilities could be, er, neatly divided like that from the perspective of Healing magic? …Endurance sounds right for what the initial effects were, and whatever you did helped.:

Nod. :I think there’s still room for improvement on - the dimension it helped with the first time - but probably a smaller improvement, it looked like - there’s some part it’s not touching at all and that would need to be addressed to get him to where he was before this illness started. Strength would be good, maybe, he’s still not very able to walk.:

Nod. :It would be nice if I could make it to meetings without having to be pushed in that ridiculous chair-cart. And I don’t know how it would fix mental abilities but - if anything that’s the worst part. The spell helped some but - it’s the being in pain all the time, I think. Even with painblocking it’s just hard to concentrate.:

:I don't think chronic pain per se is likely to be affected by a Lesser Restoration. Endurance and Strength today?:

Glance at Shavri again. :I think that’s reasonable?: