Look, Seldan is aware that Blai is very tough and doesn't need Seldan to be extra overprotective for the next few candlemarks, but Seldan is finding it soothing to be doing that anyway. 

Someone else Mindspeaks him. He has a brief conversation and then returns his attention to Blai. 

:...One of Leareth's people didn't make it. Two of them fell in with us when the bridge collapsed, they were unconscious - the force-net caught them and I made sure they were in the channel radius, I thought - as long as they weren't actually dead - but I guess it was too late. ...I don't know which god would have caught him.: It might have been nice if the Shadow-Lover had said something but it's not like Blai could possibly have known to ask. 

:...well, if Leareth might pay to get them back the body should be stored somewhere. I was planning to spend the Gentle Repose on Yfandes after the nap though.:

:That makes sense. I’ll tell them. I think Leareth would agree on Yfandes being higher priority.:

He’s quiet in Blai’s head the rest of the way to the stables. They were, conveniently, on the correct side of the river and didn’t need to detour to a different bridge. (Seldan might have insisted on literally Gating across the river instead if they had.)

In the stables Blai is quite relieved to pull his armor off and snuggle up with Seldan for a Nap.

Seldan snuggles his Herald, who is very good and very important and who he loves very very much.

He doesn't need a full eight candlemarks of sleep per night anyway, so he'll do a few minutes of Mindspeech logistics to make sure Yfandes' body will be made available without Blai having to go out of his way. He half-suspects it's a good idea to transport her body north at some point - Leareth has the best security - but for now Blai is here and not up north and it seems like probably the Shadow-Lover god will not let the Star-Eyed Goddess burn down Haven and destroy her remains. 

After half a candlemark he sleeps as well. 

They're coming in slightly less than two hours before the end of the spell. The spell's end doesn't wake anyone up by itself; if you want a few more minutes, nothing stops you, they're just minutes that take minutes instead of minutes that take seconds. Blai has slightly embarrassing dreams about the Shadow-Lover and then wakes up, stretches, and checks to see if his armor padding is dry enough to be a good idea to put back on.

They crowded a lot of people into the last round of the Nap Stack – the Heralds were more conservative in the first few blocks, since crowding more people in risked someone rolling over in their sleep and waking someone else, but by this point all the senior people had already gotten their sleep. Some junior Heralds crowded in minus Companions, since the Companions weather fatigue better, and a lot of the Healers and trainees were piled in four or five people to a stall and are now picking themselves up looking much more cheerful. 

Blai's armor is basically dry! The mage who cast a heat-spell on his clothes while he was unconscious didn't want to push too hard and risk burning him, but they got it more than halfway dry and two candlemarks in a nice warm dry stable was enough for it to dry the rest of the way. 

Seldan is almost obnoxiously cheery. :They've got Yfandes in the stillroom behind the House of Healing, if you wanted to go do the spell now.:

Vanyel apparently wanted a few minutes with her, if "with her" can possibly be the right word for it, but he's probably done having face-screamy feelings now– yep, confirmed he's gone to meet with Savil again and talk about plans to shut down the Web.

Blai gets his armor on in a few minutes and then they can go hit the corpse with a Gentle Repose, then!

No buildings collapse on them on the ride over, which does not involve crossing any bridges such that Seldan would feel a need to object that they should short-range Gate instead. 

The Healers' stillroom is unheated and very cold, which is what you want for storing corpses. The large work table most recently held the Changecreature's corpse and has been cleaned since then but is still faintly stained with ichor in a few places. 

Yfandes' body is puddled on it. Her legs are visibly broken and her neck is in an unnatural position. There's a little blood, dried now. 

"Gentle Repose."

Did it work? Seldan is watching from the open door and isn't sure if it's supposed to look like anything for it to work. 

(Poor Vanyel. He's trying not to be obtrusively sad about it where Blai has to interact with that, but - poor Vanyel.) 

It doesn't look like anything, but her body won't decay any more than it already has in the next few days.

Neat. 

No update yet from Dara on the negotiations with Iftel, but this is a case where Seldan thinks no news is tentatively good news. Valdemar isn't expecting to hear back from Treven in Rethwellan until at least tomorrow. 

...What's next on their agenda? Seldan remembers Blai wanting to talk to Herald Joshel about interplanetary currency evaluation and cost of scrolls, which doesn't seem urgent but he's now caught up on rest and is probably available. Also Vanyel and Savil have been discussing what it would take to shut down the Heartstone, and - it seems like they should do this sooner rather than later, but they're worried about the Star-Eyed Goddess escalating Her efforts to stop them and aren't sure what precautions they ought to consider taking, does Blai have any thoughts on that? 

Blai has no idea what precautions they should take, he barely knows what a Heartstone is or does. On general principle he'd recommend plenty of redundancy, and consulting Leareth - do they have a way to talk to him yet? - and evacuating anyone the Star-Eyed seems to have it in for, like, uh, Blai himself.

Talking to Joshel isn't urgent but it would be nice to have a ballpark idea of how much all the diamonds are going to cost.

It sounds like Vanyel now has no difficulty contacting Leareth with the communications-artifacts! In hindsight it looks like the Star-Eyed never had the ability to interfere via the Web and the problem was entirely that Brightstar had been able to narrow down Leareth's location in the kyree caves enough to cut off communication in or out of them specifically. Their tentative plan is to evacuate the King and Senior Circle and Council and some other key personnel like the senior Healers (and, yes, Blai) to outside of Haven entirely, and then evacuate everyone else to at least a half-mile away from the relevant building, which is out of range of everything Leareth thinks can go wrong apart from the Heartstone fully losing containment. They think they cannot realistically evacuate the entire population of Haven to more than twenty miles away. This is mainly going to be very dangerous for the Herald-Mages who have to be physically in the room with the Heartstone - especially Vanyel who will be doing the heavy lifting - and for the people Leareth is volunteering to provide shielding and feed Vanyel node-energy and be on call to try to get him out if he succeeds but is seriously injured in the process. They're tentatively planning on tomorrow morning, since Vanyel gave himself backlash getting Blai out of the river and also skipped the Nap Stack so would really benefit from a proper night's sleep first. 

Joshel is available! He's invited Blai to come to his office, but Seldan won't fit and is not yet feeling very ready to be separated from Blai, so how about they instead meet in this other Work Room that has a door big enough for a Companion to fit through. 

Well, if Seldan insists.

Seldan insists! He'll probably stop feeling a need to insist by tomorrow, if they get to tomorrow with nothing else horrible happening, but it's not like it's particularly out of Joshel's way and this particular Work Room has furniture in it at the moment (albeit the kind of rickety wooden furniture you use if you think it might get exploded by mage-experiments and don't want it to be something you're attached to.) 

Herald Joshel will come meet them!

He thanks Blai warmly for the Nap Stack, and then - what's a good place to start for figuring out how Valdemaran currency converts to costs in Blai's world? He has a reference table of the most recent standard costs in Valdemar's coin for various goods and usual wages for various unskilled or more skilled work, but that doesn't actually answer the question of how much it would cost Valdemar to purchase Golarion magic. He heard gemstones might be relevant but would need more information on that. Valdemar's government has not previously had much reason to make arrangements with gem-merchants. 

(Valdemar's government is not actually that wealthy, especially right now.) 

Blai can try to Mindspeak the weights of diamonds necessary for various relevant spells - so big for a Raise Dead, bigger for a Resurrection, huge for a True Resurrection or Wish. Sometimes other kinds of gems are relevant but diamonds are the big one. Standard Absalom-pounds coin weights in gold, silver, and copper are thus and this is how much you'd pay for diamonds like that in gold.

They can obtain diamonds in those sizes? It's really weird that diamonds specifically are magically active or something, they don't have that here! (You can use diamonds as a focus for artifacts but you can also just use quartz, diamonds aren't really superior.) 

...Diamonds are less expensive than that here, reckoned by weight of gold. Diamonds are much less expensive than that here! Joshel is not entirely sure of his conclusion here, since he's not sure he's ever arranged to purchase diamonds out of Valdemar's funds, but he's pretty sure? Especially since jewelers who buy uncut diamonds from gem-mines surely pay less for them than the jewelry ends up costing, which is what he's thinking of.

Diamonds still aren't cheap and he doubts Valdemar could realistically afford, like, dozens of the biggest kind? But Leareth, whose organization definitely has the infrastructure to Gate all over the continent and arrange transactions directly with the proprietors of diamond mines, almost certainly could. 

Joshel himself is not someone who owns much jewelry, but Lady Treesa alone probably has several of the Raise Dead size just in her personal jewelry collection. 

Blai suspected they might be less expensive here! They should definitely talk to some Abadarans as soon as they get transit between Golarion and Velgarth. The Abadarans will also be able to point out particularly lucrative ways to use Velgarth magic on Golarion, and they can get paid in gold and spend it on cheap diamonds here.

What are "Abadarans"? Joshel is very curious about that. 

:Abadar is the god of trade. Lawful Neutral. His clerics run all of the good banks, other people try but they're worse at it. They issue insurance and do trustworthy neutral arbitration and they're all the sort of person who will be terrifically excited to figure out how to arbitrage the existence of another accessible planet with different magic.:

What a weirdly excellent sort of god! Joshel is about as religious as average for a Herald, i.e. not particularly, but he would go to that god's temple for sure. Maybe even every week. Banks are important! 

Does Blai have any other questions for him? 

No, but he appreciates this fact about Joshel. Abadarans are great. When he got picked up by Iomedae he didn't know at first Who'd grabbed him and he tried Abadar but in spite of his great respect for Abadarans Blai is not really cut out to be one.