"Sounds good," Belrun says to Vanyel. "Does she know her old name or are you just going to look at lots till one looks familiar?"

"She has a guess, at least; she's pretty sure she was nicknamed 'Fanny'. So I can start by looking at all the names that start with F, they should be alphabetized, and if it's not that then I can try searching for names that have that sound in the middle. There've only been around twenty-five hundred Heralds total, ever, it wouldn't be impossible to go through all of them, but hopefully I won't have to." 

"Hopefully! I think that's the only other thing I wanted to do in Haven before going back."

"Well, I'm free this afternoon." 

"I'll have Sondra talk to Rolan about when would be a good time to chat with you," Randi says. "I'll push for it to be tonight, but if Rolan prefers tomorrow, would that still work for you?" 

"Yeah. Especially if figuring out when and where to send me home can be done in parallel since there's latency on the messages anyway."

“Oh, right, that was the other thing I’d wanted to check in on. How would you prefer to do this? We can Gate you somewhere in Valdemar if Savil’s been- Vanyel, no, this isn’t worth you Gating for. The obvious places are the message drop location or the town where you arrived, but if Leareth prefers something else we can probably make it work.”

"I'm not actually sure if Leareth can Gate to where I arrived without me present and sending him the location, we didn't test the repeatability of secondhand termini. You should probably work that out with him, none of the original plans will have taken Amshalan into account."

"Makes sense. We'll send a letter with a list of proposed locations, include lots of options so we don't end up having to go back and forth on it more than once." 

"Thank you."

"Shavri, am I forgetting anything?" 

"Hmm. Belrun, had you wanted to leave some sort of message for Dara, in case we do hear from her? Come to think of it, you could send a letter to her hometown if you wanted, I can look up where she's from." 

"She told me where she was going, when she Mindspoke me on her way out. I do plan to send her a letter later."

"All right, then I think that's everything we'd wanted to cover– yes, Tran?" 

"I wanted to thank you for your courage in coming out here," Tantras says stiffly. "And, er, to apologize for my rudeness." 

"Oh! Uh, thank you."

There is a slightly awkward pause. 

"So we're all done here, then?" Randi says cheerfully, standing. "Thank you, Belrun. We'll keep you updated on when Rolan is available to talk." 

"I appreciate that." And she goes off to follow Vanyel to the archives.

The entirety of the Heralds' library is smaller than Leareth's library just in the one location up north, but there's another room behind it that has the unpublished records. It's also small, but quite a lot of paper can be packed into floor-to-ceiling shelves stacked with boxes. 

They're mostly going to be very boring records, Vanyel explains. Date Chosen, Gifts, teachers, circuit deployment schedules, that sort of thing. 

"That's okay, it still might jog some memories."

"All right, hmm, what's the organization schema here... We want Choosings organized by date, I think, I think maybe there's a summary list of that for each box..."

There is. Each box covers roughly ten years, though sometimes more and sometimes less depending on how eventful the period in question was. They can start at the Founding and go forward. 

Skim skim skim Sayshal where are you.

In box number twenty-two! Chosen in the year 198 after the Founding by the Companion mare Lirelle, Gifts: Mindspeech and short-range Foresight. That's all the information to be found on the summary page. 

While she's there she'll see if there are any predecessor Heralds suspiciously similar to "Lirelle".