:Can... Melody talk to her and find out how likely it is she made a mistake -:

:Oh, definitely, I'm hauling her to Melody anyway, she needs the ethics lecture again. Ten ethics lectures. I'm so sorry about this, she must've snuck up and I didn't see her at all: 

:If she did anything it doesn't seem - urgent - so - I'd rather skip the extra inspection if it can be checked elsewise:

:That makes perfect sense: A hesitation. :Er, you should feel free to Mindspeak me again if anything feels off later, though?: 

:Thank you:

And a very embarrassed Jisa is dragged off to her mother. 

About a candlemark later, Shavri knocks on her door. "Belrun, um, do you have a minute to talk?" 

"Yes." She sets down her pen.

Shavri comes in, leans against the wall with her arms folded. "I, er, wanted to apologize on behalf of my daughter for earlier. I can haul her in by her ears to apologize in person if you'd prefer, but given the givens I thought you might prefer I keep her several buildings away." 

"If she apologizes in person possibly Melody should be along."

"Melody would be fine with that. I think she reckons it'll be good for Jisa actually learning her lesson about it to have to apologize to her face, and - see how upset you are about it." 

"I'm, uh, unusually sensitive. Always have been."

"Right. I still think it'd be good for her to see that poking random strangers through their windows out of curiosity is sometimes going to upset them a lot. She really hates upsetting people, actually! She just...doesn't always think through the consequences of her actions." 

"She should probably also be aware that she violated the terms of my presence here and under different circumstances could have started a war."

Frown. "The thing is that right now she is not cleared to know anything about why you're here or that there's a possible war in the making. Do you think we ought to tell her? It would make the seriousness and importance sink in but also she's nine and, as you saw, not above using Mindhealing Sight to spy on people if her parents won't tell her what's going on." 

"It's obviously up to you in the end but she is evidently old enough to almost start wars and that seems like a logical age to know when one has almost started one. Is this the first time she's gone out of bounds with her Gift?"

"N...o? Not exactly. There were a some incidents earlier on that were mostly a control thing - or I thought so anyway - her Gifts awakened extremely young and it's pretty unfair, actually, asking a seven-year-old to wield something as invasive and potentially dangerous as Mindhealing responsibly. A few times I caught her using Empathy and told her off. And, er, she just fessed up to Melody about some other dubious uses, apparently we never caught her at it though." A very tired smile. "So I guess I have to thank you for being very sensitive and perceptive and catching it now, hopefully without any harm done." 

".......you're welcome."

"...I'll go talk to Randi and sound him out on the matter of telling her. Hopefully won't distract him too much from all the other important urgent matters going on right now." 

"I know you've got a lot on your plate. It's up to you, she's not mine. Just, uh. Tighten up the childcare handoffs, I guess."

"Definitely. I'm really, really sorry this slipped through – Melody thinks it's mostly her fault, she got pulled into this mess enough that she ended up cancelling Jisa's lessons the entire past week, but that wasn't clearly communicated to her governess. We're addressing it now. I know that's closing the barn door after the horse is gone, but I really didn't expect my nine-year-old to attempt to conduct international espionage via dubious use of Mindhealing."  

"It certainly blindsided me."

Shavri nods, looks apologetic again, shifts her weight awkwardly for a moment and then leaves. 

"- Van said you have sleeping herbs? I might want some eventually," remembers Belrun as she goes.

"...Having trouble sleeping? I remember that, actually, from being separated from Randi. It does get easier after the first couple of nights, or at least it did for me. It helps to - I don't know how to describe it, but relax into it? Don't try to pull, that puts more strain on it. And I'll make sure to drop off some herbs for you tonight."