Which gets her an odd look from Leareth. "Is she your Companion?" he asks after a few seconds. "I would not have expected that." 

"No, we're just friends."

"I see." 

:Bella?: Shavri reaches out, sounding worried. :Sayshen said you were coming - where are you?: 

In the hall, what's up?

:Van is still really upset: 

"Excuse me." And she lets herself into Vanyel's room.

Vanyel is flopped against Yfandes, crying. Shavri is sort of awkwardly hugging him from the other side. 

"Vanyel?"

No answer. 

Vanyel? Do you want me to calm you down?

:Yes, please: 

She does.

Vanyel uncurls a bit from Yfandes and sits up, wiping his eyes. :I wish everything would just stop and go away: 

Did something else happen? Was Nayoki bothering you?

:No - I mean, it wasn't mostly that. I, just... I want to go home. But I'm scared it isn't safe, we just had literal gryphons attack us, what if something even worse happens - and I'm scared we're not safe here either and Leareth is going to betray us - and, I don't know, it doesn't really feel like I can go home, anymore. Maybe that's stupid but it's how it feels. Now everyone knows there's some kind of infohazardous secret I know and they don't, Savil is going to be so mad at me...: 

I'm sorry.

:It's not your fault!: Vanyel seems actually indignant about that. :I know you probably feel like it is, but none of that was at all a reasonable or proportionate response to anything you did here: 

I mean, sure, I'm not saying I had it coming. I'm still sorry it happened.

:Mmm: Vanyel hugs himself for a while. :...I'm sorry it happened too: This must be really awful for you as well:

I'm holding up.

Is this an okay time to go over what happened when you told me I could tell Lancir whatever?

Vanyel sniffles, blows his nose on his sleeve. "Now's fine. Um, if it went really badly, though, can you keep doing the calming thing? I want to know what's going on but it's - kind of hard to take any more bad things right now."

"It didn't go really badly, I don't think. Shavri, can you give us some privacy?"

"Right, of course." She slips out and pulls the curtain shut, her feet pattering off down the hall. 

"Do you want Yfandes to stay?" Bella offers her an apple while she says this.