Fëanáro liked it to blow off steam when he was upset.

"...I guess that's something you could do with it – wait, is Van all right?" 

He was holding up the building while I got people out, I'm not sure exactly what that does.

"I'm fine," Vanyel mutters without opening his eyes. "Just tired. I'll be - able to move - in a minute." 

"He held up the building? That's a lot of magic." Shavri looks startled and impressed. "I knew he was strong but not that strong. Wow, Van!" 

Coffee thing? Or different kind of tired?

He smiles weakly at her. "Um, it probably won't help with the backlash but it might help with the being able to stand up part. Are you not tired?" 

"Mana's different, right?" Shavri says brightly. "Also I bet you mostly grabbed it from other people, since they weren't using it for anything. So jealous." 

I used mine flying here but it's mostly swiped, yes. Coffee thing.

Vanyel blinks, then carefully sits up straight. "That...does help a bunch, thank you - except ohhhgods here comes the backlash headache." He presses both hands to his temples. "I'll be fine, it's normal, I just need willowbark or something." 

I can try to fix that too.

"Oh, can you?" Hopeful look. 

If it's like a normal headache. Fix?

"That's much better! Thank you." Vanyel still waits for a while before standing up, and moves cautiously when he does. "...I think I still can't do magic any more today so I'm not sure what to do." 

Don't you ever do other stuff?

"...Sometimes I read books?" 

"You," Shavri says brightly, "should have a day off. It's really reasonable, you just rescued tons of people. And I have the afternoon off. We could have a picnic. Ooh! You could bring your lute. I'm off this afternoon. Bella, if we had a picnic would you come?" 

I'd make an appearance for lunch but I do want to get work done.

"Yfandes seems to have decided for me that I'm taking the day off," Vanyel says. He rolls his eyes. "I could definitely do some useful work but she says I'm banned." 

Shavri laughs. "Good! I do have to go to the House of Healing for the morning – I'm not even tired, I didn't actually do any Healing just now, Bella did all of it! But I'll grab us some food – meet me outside the dining hall at the noon bell? Bring your lute. Bella, you can meet us then too if you decide you want to come."

She stops long enough to take a breath. "Oh – Bella, do you need to get some mana from someone so you can get work done, or are you doing work that doesn't need that?" 

Don't need it but also I didn't ride a horse here and don't have enough to fly all the way back.

"Oh, er, Yfandes says she's happy to take you riding double," Vanyel offers. "Although, um, she didn't have time to get her saddle or anything, so I rode here bareback. We might be able to borrow a saddle from one of the other Heralds." 

I can try it, though surely a saddle would only have room for one of us anyway?

"The standard saddles for Companions have a pillion pad behind for taking a second rider," Vanyel explains. "We end up needing to give people quick lifts sometimes on missions." 

Oh, that makes sense. I'm up for it.