That's good. If the Shadow-Lover's message has already been passed on Blai has nothing urgent to say (except maybe to reiterate that he can be... looked at or whatever... to better triangulate Golarion, if that helps) but various hostiles have spent so much effort making it hard to talk to Leareth that he has it flagged as alarming not to be able to.

It would be pretty alarming if they lost contact! Though they're in an enormously better situation to address it now that the Heralds trust Leareth enough to have two dozen of his people in Haven all of whom have Gate-locations in the north. 

He passed on the Shadow-Lover's message to Vanyel but it's possible the nuances weren't all conveyed and it would be a good idea for Seldan to show Leareth the memory directly once they have reason to be in the north again.

Anyway, breakfast and then spells and then figure out if they need to talk to Brightstar? Maybe the prophecy will actually show everything going fine.

Breakfast. (The food keeps being not Worldwound stew and also not Created food that needs so much extra salt, it's great.) Where's Sandra to be found?

In the suite she shares with Kilchas. (They’re apparently together.) She’s expecting them. Seldan passed on to her Companion to explain what they’re going to try and that it may not work.

She’s a tall, slender woman with scars on her face and throat; the alchemy accident wasn’t the first time she’s been seriously injured. Despite her cloudy, obviously unseeing eyes, she moves gracefully when she lets them in; mage-sight and Thoughtsensing make up for a lot.

Kilchas is sitting down at the dining table. He’s a little disappointed that apparently Blai can’t heal him, but - there’s a whole other world, maybe they have stronger magic. And he’s excited to watch.

"Remove Blindness."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awwwww.

Kilchas gets up, wheezing a bit, and hugs her. He would kind of like to hug Blai in gratitude, but per the Companion backchannel Blai would probably find it weird, so he doesn’t.

Blai nods politely and waits for Sandra to exit the hug before trying the Lesser Restoration.

She can see (!!!!) that he's waiting for her, and extracts herself fairly quickly for the second spell. 

"Lesser Restoration."

The Healers told Sandra over a year ago that she was probably as recovered from her injuries as she was ever going to get. They saved her life and got her through the infections and complications in the aftermath, but Healing can't reverse the scarring in her lungs. 

It could be worse. She can walk around her suite without getting too short of breath, though even a cold has her bedridden now and attended by worried Healers trying to stop it from turning to pneumonia, and she's been avoiding going outside since the first frost because the cold air makes her chest lock up. She can do artifact-work as long as she takes frequent breaks, and she's always been better at detail-work than power anyway. But even with the air-of-life talisman powered up around her neck, the sense of her own limitations is there, lurking just out of sight. She could still use magic in combat if she had to, she thinks – for about fifteen seconds before she ended up on the floor gasping like a fish. The fatigue and weakness are ever-present, and she can ignore that and push through for a time but she always pays for it. 

She abruptly feels a lot better! Not healthy - she's not sure she remembers what that feels like, anyway - but like she could head down the hall at a jog right now if she felt like it and reach Savil's suite still able to talk. 

:Wow. That - did help. Thank you.: 

:You're welcome.:

Well, that seems to be all he has to do here, then! (Seldan is pretty sure that Sandra and Kilchas would like some privacy to do more than just hug.) 

They can go find Vanyel now and discuss casting the prophecy spell on him? He and Savil are discussing preparations right now. 

(Seldan is feeling a bit less intensely clingy this morning and is personally fine with Blai going into a building for a few minutes, but if Blai seems at all alarmed by the prospect then he'll see if Vanyel and Savil can come out and meet them instead.) 

Blai is not more anxious about going into a building than he is about most things, today.

Then they needn't mildly inconvenience Vanyel and Savil by asking them to duck out of their meeting room! It's this way. 

Vanyel seems like he might be doing a little better than yesterday, now that he's had a night's sleep. He's tense, but that makes an awful lot of sense given what they're planning to do. 

Savil smiles at Blai. She had a Nap in the Stack and eventually a night's sleep as well, and despite the seriousness of the situation she's almost cheerful. :I'm very glad you're all right.: 

:It was at least very interesting to speak to the Shadow-Lover, though Her manner of arranging to meet people is certainly awkward.:

:It sounds like you had a surprisingly productive conversation!: 

She pulls out a chair for Blai and turns back to look at Vanyel. :So obviously the worst case scenario here is the Heartstone losing containment, but - that can't happen by accident no matter how unlucky we get. Vanyel thinks it's likely She could only do it at all with an Adept who follows Her present, and even if She can do it directly, it's - not clear that it gains Her much. She would still lose nearly all Her influence in Valdemar. The part that does gain Her something is if we decide to delay because we're afraid She would do it. So - we're not planning to delay.: 

:We're considering whether to make an announcement to the population at large, so people can choose to get out of range just in case. But it could create a lot of panic and - I'm trying to think if She would be actively steering for that, if it's already the case that we're not planning to delay no matter what. I don't think any amount of panic in the city or - people getting hurt - could stop us from carrying the plan out.: 

Blai briefly entertains the idea of telling people something is going to be merely unpleasant in the area, like a noxious smell or a loud noise, but this would be false, and he is not supposed to lie, probably. :Which of you will be in a more visually informative location at the time? If you'll be in the same place which of you is less likely to have another even more important thing in store for the next few days?:

Savil considers this. 

:We're both going to be in the Heartstone room. I don't know how visually informative...doing magic...would be. Vanyel will be doing most of it, I - could plan to narrate what's happening, if that would be more informative than just sitting there in trance?:

Thoughtful frown. :And I think Vanyel, er, attracts important events in general more than I do.: In particular, if they can get access to Golarion and bring Yfandes back in the next few days, that could easily be considered an even bigger deal for Vanyel than the entire Palace collapsing when they try to shut down the Heartstone. She doesn't bring it up explicitly, though. 

:The worst that could happen - short of the Heartstone losing containment - is that I die.: Matter-of-factly. :It's a risky working that really ought to be done by a team of a dozen mages including a Healing-Adept, and I've obviously never done it before.: 

They could all die. Savil doesn't say that either; she has a suspicion that it's important for Vanyel right now to believe that even if this goes wrong, Leareth's mages could get her at least out in time.