Leareth finishes packing and offers her his hand again and then Gates them back. 

And flops onto the bed. "I am not desperately tired but I am a little tired," he confesses. 

She flops beside him and snuggles up. "Then I will not make you explain to me your theological premises until tomorrow."

"Mmm." Snuggle. "Find anything interesting when you were poking around?" 

"History of the Valdemar/Hardorn alliance. Not supremely fascinating."

"Someday I can show you what I think all the most interesting alliances of history are. Not a first priority though." Leareth yawns and squeezes her. "Gods first. Tomorrow." He is very cozy and as a result very sleepy, which is weirdly nice. 

She Fetches the quilt over them and faceplants onto his chest and promptly falls asleep.

They do not have any surprise shared magic dreams and Leareth wakes up with a pleasant armful of Belrun. He still instinctively checks all the wards first before anything else, but after that, he stays there snuggling her rather than getting up. 

"Liquid. Butterfly. Soapdish."

Adorable! 

"Cactus." Squirm. "Cloud." Yawn. "Good morning."

"Good morning." Snuggle. "Were you aware that you talk in your sleep? I am rather curious what you were dreaming about, if it is has any relation to that at all, it might just be random." 

"I don't remember what I was dreaming about and was not aware that I talk in my sleep! What did I say?"

"It seemed to be mostly disconnected words." He thinks back. "'Liquid', 'soapdish' - no, you also said 'butterfly' in the middle there - 'cactus', 'cloud'..." 

"It would have to be a weird dream! Maybe Rana knows." She sits up and stretches.

"Should we grab breakfast before we talk about gods? Oh, and I forgot to ask about your class today. I assume your eggs will need tending at some point also." 

"We have all morning but should eat breakfast, yes. We didn't sleep in as late today, I think I hear Rana, maybe she fixed extra -" Belrun leans over to kiss him and then gets up, steps out, talks briefly with her mother. Rana can be heard laughing.

If it's the sleeptalking then Leareth is very curious what the verdict ends up being! Actually he's curious either way. Everything about Belrun's life is very fascinating. 

(Much of it would be fascinating anyway, but the lifebond is probably responsible for her sleeptalking being interesting as well as her research.) 

Breakfast is porridge again; Rana made them some extra and put apples in it but is on her way to work before Leareth emerges. "She says I've done it since I learned to talk and seldom to never have relevant dreams," Belrun reports.

"Ah. I suppose it is likely sleeptalking has come up at some point in my past but evidently I did not think it relevant enough to make it into the summarized records that I actually try to re-memorize, because I currently know very little about why it is a thing." 

"I bet that's true of lots of things. Caterpillars, for instance, I bet they're totally irrelevant to whatever it is you do all day." Om nom.

"That is true! I could tell you almost nothing about the life cycle and dietary habits of caterpillars. They eat...leaves?" He eats. If they can get Mindspeech working they can eat and talk at the same time that'll be convenient. 

"I have seen them do so, yes!"

"Did you study them in your training as a Healer? Or have you just...watched caterpillars, sometimes? I suppose that is the sort of thing children probably do. I have not been a child myself in a very long time so I would not know for sure." 

"I didn't decide as soon as my Gifts awakened that I was going to specialize in diseases! I think it was the right choice but I considered other things and caterpillars are interesting because they turn into butterflies. I did a term project on that once. I also seriously considered going into plants! Mages make new species sometimes, I hear, but they're always animals and often people and that seems like it's, I don't know, chasing glamor at the expense of value, sure, it's cool if you can smush a parakeet and a snake together or whatever but why hasn't anyone smushed together a dandelion and wheat. But I can just, you know, tell bright young Healing students they should consider doing wacky things to plants, whereas my specific Gift combination is especially useful for the disease angle."

"Because of the safety aspect, I imagine? That makes sense. And, fascinating - which traits of a dandelion and wheat would you be wishing to combine, in that example? The hardiness and, well, weed nature of dandelions with the edible grain?"