:...Yes, Bella, what is it?: Savil seems a bit preoccupied but she's listening. 

Wanted to let you know that Vanyel had a legitimate emergency, might need the rest of the day off.

:Oh no! Actually, I'd been considering talking to you, he's seemed kind of off the last few days. Anyway, thank you for telling me. And for, um, handling it, I assume: 

I can't tell you about that.

:Right. Well, thank you for informing me: Savil drops the connection. 

Bella next goes to Healers' to tell them she isn't progressing as fast as she feels is necessary on her interplanar earcuff and can they get by with half an hour a day plus emergency call-ins till that's done?

This is going to mostly hit Melody, since Bella can cram a lot of healing into half a candlemark but not so much with her subtle arts and therapy patients. They can make do, though, Melody understands that this is important to her and can pull longer days for a little while. 

They've got a convenient lineup of injuries for her if she was planning to do her half-candlemark now. Also, Aber has mail for her and wants to know if she was expecting any? 

Now is fine and yes, she'll take the letter as soon as she's done.

Healing healing healing healing and she's not touching that letter with her bare hands, she's gonna float it out of wherever they're keeping it someplace with no plants, open it by teekay, and spread it out on the ground outside to copy down on a separate sheet of paper before she incinerates it.

The letter does not do anything surprising or unfortunate to her during this process.

Oh good.

She performs the deciphering process, and then has a go at reading it, though she doesn't expect to do the whole thing without help.

She can't get all of it, but it's not that long and the gist seems to be that Leareth is willing to consider using the earcuff for a realtime conversation, but not with himself directly on the other end, and there's a question that seems to talk about location, and another question that she can't really parse but has the words 'facts' and 'reach' in it. 

She decides that this probably isn't time-sensitive and puts it off till her next scheduled session with Vanyel and resumes work on her enchantment.

The days pass uneventfully. It seems like Gemma may have put a message out to the other Healers to absolutely minimize calling on her for emergencies; she only gets interrupted for that once, and not in the middle of the night. 

And she brings her deciphered letter to her next scheduled session with Vanyel.

Vanyel sees it, freezes. "Is...that what I think it is?" 

"It's not the same paper. I rewrote it and -" burned "it. And tried to -" decode it. "But I can't read all of it alone."

Vanyel fills in the correct Valdemaran words. And smiles slightly. “You’re picking up his level of paranoia.”

"I wouldn't have if I didn't happen to be" telekinetic with a fire spell.

Valdemaran doesn’t actually have a word for telekinesis that isn’t Fetching, the shortest phrase is “moving things with magic”.

“Those are useful things to have,” Vanyel agrees. “Er, did you want me to read it for you?”

"Yes, I can't ask anyone else unless you tell me to, but we can do it after."

"...Is that because it's covered under your professional oath because it came up in a session with me?" 

"Yes. Unless you start going around telling everyone that I have, uh," stolen your sense of smell or something, "then I can't leak information purposefully without your say-so. Though separately more" infosec "about him seems good."

Vanyel takes a deep breath. Lets it out. "Bella, I - I agree about keeping information secure, but...I don't know, it's just, I'm not sure it feels right to have everything about Leareth covered under your oath as a Mindhealer." (Valdemaran does not really have a good word for 'therapist' that doesn't imply the Mindhealing Gift.) "He's - a way bigger deal than just me, you know? And, I don't know, if something comes up and I can't give you consent, I'd want you to be able to use your judgement to decide what to do. Your judgement in general, as a smart person who knows magic." 

He closes his eyes. "Although...I really don't want you to tell anyone, right now, there's no way to explain it that won't end up with people mad at me." 

I can do that, yeah. And try insofar as I can to avoid people getting mad at you. I could say 'I got a letter from an ostensibly immortal mage with a far-reaching spy network who is interested in me in my capacity as an otherworldly magical scientist, what should I do about that'.

Nod. "If you went to, oh, Savil, she might guess the mage was Leareth. Just because she already knows he exists and is powerful and scary, from the dream. But...maybe she couldn't guess it went through me, if you implied he contacted you independently. And, say, Tran doesn't know about the Foresight dream period, so he couldn't link it to me at all. Anyway, for right now I don't mind translating the letter after."