"You have very good reasons for doing it and I think in the median case it will turn out to have been a very good idea. Just - if you've tried a few safer things and they didn't work, take a break. Don't keep trying steadily more dangerous ones."

Jisa nods. “I won’t be stupid about it.” Sigh. “I suppose we’d better pack up - thank you so much for having us this whole time...” 

"Of course. Safe travels."

And they can pack up and say their goodbyes and head back toward the coast, to eventually get a boat to Tol Eréssea and then Gate across the ocean to Vinyamar. They make pretty good time; there are two Companions between the three of them and Yfandes is willing to carry whoever needs a ride, even though Companions won't normally let anyone but their Chosen on their backs. So Stef rides Yfandes and Jisa trades back and forth riding double with Treven and with Stef. 

Vinyamar has grown since they last saw it; Nolofinwë has temporarily changed his plans to found his own city in light of the fact that Maitimo is missing presumed dead and Fëanáro is distracted from running this one. 

"Unfortunately I don't think this method will work on any of the local humans," he says when they get there. "I spent a while trying to work out one that would, because it'd be much better, but I think I need you to be using magic - to specifically be drawing magic from an external source - in order to overload it in the right way. So if you've got one Gift we can get you another, assuming you can be taught how to draw on a Maia or an artifact or a node for power, but we can't do anything for people who only have potential Gifts."

Treven takes a step closer to Jisa, putting his arm around her, but doesn't object out loud. 

"Right. I can't draw from nodes, only mages can do that, I wouldn't even be able to tell they were there, but - hmm. I can do Healing-Melds, I've been in them before. And I remember Vanyel pointing out that it's not different, really, it's all just energy. He can feed other people node-energy, people who aren't mages, for them to use; he did it to help my mother Heal someone, once. I don't know what drawing from a Maia or an artifact would be like, but if it's more like a Healing-Meld, I ought to be able to do it. I won't be able to see the energy but maybe I could use it anyway." 

"Can you try, with Huan -"

"Yes, of course I'll try." 

"Will you know once you're doing it - since none of us have a way to see it, I don't think -"

"I'm pretty sure I will. If we want an objective way to test it, I could - see if I can boost my Mindspeech range further than usual, I guess? I don't think there's a particularly safe way to run that test with Mindhealing given how invasive it is." 

"Sure, let's see if you can tap Huan and get your range up."

"Right. Er, my normal range is about twenty miles for anyone except Trev. Who should I try to contact who's further than, hmm, fifty miles but not a lot further, and who I've met?" 

"Oh, I don't know." He makes a little bit of a face. Maitimo would've known, offhand. "I will ask who's in Brithombar who you've met." 

"Thank you. I can go try it with Huan in the meantime, I think it might take me a while to get it. Has Huan had mages use him for energy before? If he knows what it feels like on his end then maybe he can make it easier for me." 

"He has, yes."

Then Jisa can sit with Huan and pet him - it's really nice to get to do important magic work that also involves petting a fluffy dog, actually - and try to slip into the same feeling of a Healing-Meld, parting her shields so that the boundary between her and Huan is hazy and the energy that is his might as well be hers. It's tricky because normally she would be doing it by getting into Mindspeech rapport, but Huan isn't exactly a Mindspeaker and she's not sure that'll work. She tries sending him an impression of what it would usually feel like for her, though, with a hopeful mental question-mark. 

He licks at her hand and then - sends his impression of what Leareth used to do.

Jisa giggles, the mental image of Leareth doing powerful magic by petting a dog is adorable, and then pokes around to see if this will actually help her. She can't see the energy but she knows where Leareth expected to find it, now, and maybe she can sort of let her mind drift in close enough to feel it– there! 

:Am I doing it?: It feels a bit like a Healing-Meld, that sense of suddenly being deeper and more... 

Huan licks her hand again, doesn't answer. 

Well, he is a dog. Jisa is pretty sure she's got it, though. She practices letting go and picking it up again, faster on each iteration, until Fëanáro gets back or osanwës her a name. 

He eventually obtains some names and can send them along so she can find one she knows. 

She does know a couple of those people and will cheerfully try to reach them and say hi!

Works!