:Yeah, that makes sense:

This is the point at which there's a polite tap on her shields. 

:Yes?:

:Sorry, I told Shavri I wanted to talk to you but it turned out I wanted to talk to Van first. I, um... It might be better as a separate thing anyway. I'm wondering if I ought to - try the thing with Kellan. So Van has more people he can actually talk to: 

:I'm happy to do that any time if Van and Yfandes don't think they can replicate it themselves and if Randi gives me the go-ahead:

:Oh! I hadn't thought about whether they could - I guess that makes sense, you're not using magic or anything, just having a conversation. I don't want to ask them today, though, they're both so tired. I suppose it's not as urgent; if the thing I want to address this for is talking to Van, we can address it by, well, talking, the next time he wants to: 

:You can! Is Kellan up for it -:

:As up for it as anyone can be when they're sort of avoiding thinking about it too hard: 

:That makes sense. Is there anything you want to ask me instead of asking Vanyel and Yfandes?:

:Oh. Hmm. That's a good question. I guess... Do you expect this to be very stressful or upsetting for me? It sounds like it basically wasn't for you, and it was for Van but...there are a lot of him-specific reasons that wouldn't apply to me. But different factors might apply to me? Mainly I'm trying to decide if I should block off time afterward where I might not be up for my usual work: 

:I think it mostly stressed Vanyel out because he was already stressed out and still needs to recover from that even though now he has the space to do it in, but there could be other things that would make it stress you out too - I just speculated to Randi that it might be harder for older Heralds because you've gotten used to Kellan the way he is for longer, say, but I don't know if that would make it hard for you to work:

:That makes sense. I think I will try to set it up so I'm not desperately needed for anything right away after, just seems sensible: 

:Yeah, that seems like a good idea:

:...All right, that's probably all we actually needed to talk about. I guess I'll find out in a bit whether Kellan and I can, er, do the thing just by talking with Van and 'Fandes, and if we run into trouble I can Mindspeak you and ask for advice?: 

:Mm-hm! Good luck:

:Thank you!: And Savil drops the connection. 

Shavri is looking at her. "Was that Savil?" 

"Yes, she thinks she'll try it by talking to Van and Yfandes - I'm probably not personally necessary any more."

"Ooh! That kind of makes sense, it's not like you're a Mindhealer or know something no one else does, you're just the person who figured this out first." 

"My general, uh, attitude, probably helps at all, but yeah, I don't think I have to personally talk to every Companion in the herd."

"That's a relief! It'll make this a lot more scalable. And, well, I have a feeling we shouldn't try to do it all at once, that probably we should let it happen at the speed it seems like it needs to, and only try to push it if it's been weeks or months and we're stuck. And I really wouldn't want to keep you from your lifebonded that long, given that - well, to me at least it's starting to feel pretty determined that we aren't going to go to war over this. I don't have the faintest idea what we're going to do instead, but..." 

"Maybe your folks will help me figure out how to blow up the moon. If that metaphor made it to you. Uh, I would like to mention that I'm worried about Rolan sort of - on reflex, as it were, going out and Choosing someone new? I think he shouldn't do that and I'm not clear to what extent he can be prevented."

"Goodness. I'd been worrying about that too, and hoping it wasn't urgent, Rolan doesn't seem to be in the mood to run off and Choose anyone right now and we do at least have an acting King's Own, but - I guess it's kind of silly to keep ignoring it and saying I'll deal with it later. I don't know to what extent that can be prevented?" 

"I'd like to try to talk with Rolan personally if he's ever amenable to that. He's not and never was human so I don't have a good guess about when would be a respectful time to suggest it while still preempting him going and grabbing another teenager."

"That makes sense. I'm not sure there's a better way to find out than just asking him? Or having a Companion do it. I could ask Sondra to, if you want?"