Coming!

Over she comes.

"Sorry it's later than I said." Vanyel is already in his sleeping-clothes, and pads over to the bed. He looks like someone who's both very tired and trying hard to hide an enormous grin. 

It's okay but I'd rather you didn't make a habit of it. Maybe you can hang out with Tran in the morning sometimes.

"I asked Yfandes to remind me, but she, um, thought I was having a good time and she waited. She says she won't make a habit of it either. Thank you, Bella. Goodnight." He lies down and closes his eyes. 

Goodnight. She puts him to sleep and goes off to bed herself.

Nobody bothers her overnight.

Then in the morning she will feel much better and get breakfast at a totally normal breakfast time.

Shavri grins and waves. "Morning!" 

"Good morning!"

"Is it true that you put more people's limbs back on last night?" Shavri says, with her mouth half full. 

What was I going to do, let them hop away without all their limbs? There can't be that many people missing extremities, I'll run through them eventually.

Shavri laughs. "That's true. And I guess it's fast for you and you can get mana from people. If I could do that – once I can do it," she corrects with a bright grin, "I'd go all over fixing everyone's old wounds. Though they might start a cult about you and then we'd get people from all over Valdemar. But there still can't be that many. You could do them all." She's giving Bella an extremely hero-worshipping look. 

I'm not super thrilled about the cult part.

"...That makes sense. It seems like it could be awkward or bad for other reasons. I don't know how to have people not do that if you're going to Heal them, though." 

Do people form cults around here a lot?

"...Er, not that often. But pretty common if there is a miracle, or something that looks like one – probably some of the 'miracles' I read about in Karse and Rethwellan were just people with Gifts." 

Are Gifts not commonly understood?

"I guess it's pretty variable? But people in really small towns often don't know that much about Gifts." 

Huh. It'll take me a while to reinvent enough stuff to get more books around everywhere...

Shavri lights up. "You want to get books everywhere? What do you need to invent for that? Can I help?" 

Uh, there's something called a crystal ball, and when those are working I can also invent the scriber, which can print off lots of pages really fast. Also if there are enough crystal balls every town can just have one and read the books with the ball.

"Wow! What do you need to get working for crystal balls – how do they work, anyway, if you had ten could you use them all to read the same book at–" Shavri cuts off again, too excited to finish sentences. "Were you still going to do magic lessons at some point and if so much how do you charge?" 

I'm prepped to do a first lesson but think I should wait till I've made more progress on contacting my friends.

She seems a little disappointed but nods. "Right, that makes sense. Oh - did you finish making whatever it was you wanted to do with the bracelet you found?" 

Bella holds out her wrist in Shavri's direction; a pattern of light is silently counting down to the next candlemark.