Vanyel actually laughs a bit. "That's fair. I, um, don't suppose you've noticed anything clever we could do about it now that you did the first part?" He shrugs. "I think I can live with it. It's not intolerable or anything. It's just, the thing you said before was right, it means there's a really low threshold for other things being too much, because there's...less me." 

After we've done all the obvious stuff like shoring up those pinches you're keeping, which I can do today, and starting you trying to lucid dream, and making sure you're sleeping every night on a schedule, and trying ways to give you space to yourself to think and process without Yfandes looking over your shoulder, then I can start trying to poke around there and see what there is to do, but I'll be guessing so it'll be slow and riskier and might not do anything.

Nod, that seems like a solid plan. 

I can stick on all the pinches you're keeping in one session if you're okay with letting the ones you aren't keeping release on their own. Not sure it'll all fit in otherwise.

"No, that's fine if it's more efficient." 

Okay, say when.

"Er, go ahead." 

And on she sticks everything.

There you go.

Vanyel tries to notice if it feels different from the inside. If it does it’s not blatant enough for him to be sure he’s not imagining it. “Thank you.”

You're welcome.

"Did you want to do anything else? If not I have some things I'm really behind on that I should probably do before I run out of energy today." 

This is all I had planned for today. Do you want a coffee thing?

"I would really like that!" He keeps either forgetting to ask or being too embarrassed about it. 

Coffee thing! Shavri showed me the mindspeech knock thing, so go ahead and do that when you're about ready to go to sleep.

Vanyel is so awake! It's pretty wonderful, actually, when he's running on insufficient sleep it just brings him up to 'sort of okay' but now that he's actually been sleeping well he feels so energetic. He can possibly catch up on an entire three days of missed work in an afternoon if it lasts. (His current todo lists are not very ambitious.)

"Thank you!" He smiles and waves and runs out. 

Bella waves.

She steps onto her terrace.

And she lifts off into the sky and flies.

Savil is riding Kellan back from the central Work Room. "Wait, is that–" She rubs her eyes. "Kellan, does that look like Bella to you?" 

:It sure does: 

"...I'm so confused right now." Well, she knows who might know more. Stretch out her sense and search for a very familiar mind... :Van? Hey, did you per chance happen to find out at some point that BELLA CAN FLY–:

Bella CAN fly!!!

She swings by the healing house after she has gotten it out of her system, though she doesn't touch the ground till she reaches the door.

Shavri runs out to meet her, trailing Gemma. "See, see, I told you, she actually has all this amazing magic too! She just didn't think it was safe to use because she thought we were some sort of weird crazy world where reality punishes you for trying to do experiments on it!"

"...What about that." Gemma takes it a lot more calmly. She waves. "Heya, Bella. Been waiting – I've got this for you." She tosses over a small leather bag. 

Bella snags it with teekay when she misses it with her hand. She opens it up.

It has quite a number of silver coins in it. 

"First month stipend," Gemma says brightly. "Since you're officially one of us now. And some extra for moving expenses – well, you didn't move in the usual way, but it's standard and I assume you'll want to pick up furniture and accessories and some new clothes. Er, uniforms... It'd be the same as us," she gestures at her green robes, "though you're not a normal Healer so it might be confusing. Melody wears green and just corrects people a lot, some of the other Mindhealers wear whatever they like, it's up to you." 

Green's fine.

Gemma leads her inside. "Er, scheduling. We try to keep a book of who's around when, that's going to be especially relevant for you and Melody since you're the only ones with subtle arts and Mindhealing Gift respectively – we made a new leaf for you, here we are. You're still picking up some things for Lancir? Melody said you were doing that this afternoon, but Aber said Lancir came looking for you here and didn't seem to have any idea where you were, so, er, it's fine for this time but for future that's why we have the book. Write down whether you're busy, whether or not you can be interrupted or grabbed for emergencies, and whether you're planning to be physically here or elsewhere. Hopefully in a week or two we can work out a routine. Oh – and if you want to add something in and you're not physically here, feel feel to try for a Mindspeaker. Melody's one, I'm one, Shavri is and she's here constantly and very helpful. Questions?"

I'm picking up a subset of Lancir's patients and the handoff is time-intensive - plus Lancir is no longer entitled to patient information after I take over - but that should settle down, within weeks if not days. Uh, since I'm using magic again, I can also heal directly, and that has a separate limit from subtle arts uses, called mana, and what's more I can swipe mana from other people - I don't know if it'd affect Gift use at all but I can get it off patients if need be, if I'm running low.