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:Pretty sure I’ve got it: she confirms. She’s both very smug and...kind of terrified about the next steps here.

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All right. Are you ready, then?

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:Give me one moment: She gets up and hugs Treven. Stays in the circle of his arms for a minute or so. Takes a deep breath. :I’m ready. What do I need to do - just touch Huan again?:

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:All right. Here goes: She does it. Waits. Hopes, silently, that it won’t hurt too badly.

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And he has an artifact he has fitted to focus on Jisa, on what she's doing right now, and on the Silmarils, and - 

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It hurts an astonishing amount, actually!

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa clearly her wish was stupid and she should instead have been wishing it just knocked her out–

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And then it no longer hurts an astonishing amount, because Stef is singing, painblocking and pushing calmcalmcalm with his regular Bardic Gift and also he picked a Quendi healing song just because. 

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Treven scoops Jisa up in his arms. :Fëanáro, my Companion says it worked. She's also, um, like this...?: 

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- I guess that's why Lórien didn't want to do it. Hopefully we can throw enough healing at it -

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No one else has Bardic Gifts but Stef can have help on the healing song (though it works a little less well than it should for this much pain were it from an ordinary injury.)

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Jisa hangs onto Treven's neck while he carries her to bed. "S'allright, m'fine..." She is not particularly fine, she can tell that something is badly wrong, but - that definitely does feel like a new Gift in her head - she's not going to use it but it's there. She's not in pain. If they let her she's going to fall asleep in about thirty seconds once she's lying down. 

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"Well. How long can you do that, Stefen -"

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He can answer in osanwë without stopping the song. Maybe twelve before I run out of Gift. I might run out of voice before that. Someone should get my lute so I can switch off but I'll probably run out of working fingers eventually. 

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"Are there drugs we could give her while Stef is sleeping?" 

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There are some but I don't know much about safe dosage for humans, you're more fragile than Quendi. 

Someone can get his lute and some pain medication anyway.

I guess we'll try low doses, see if that's enough to get her through the worst of it? And if not probably take her to Lórien.

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It still hurts a lot when Stef admits exhaustion and stops playing. With the dose of pain medication they gave her, and lying still with her eyes closed, it's sort of tolerable. Moving her head is not tolerable. 

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The trip to Lórien would really suck but probably he could fix it once she's there. Maybe they can give it a couple of days to see if she recovers on her own?

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That seems right. (Jisa is only sort of having coherent thoughts at this point, but Treven says it seems right, so she trusts him with it.) 

After a couple of days of mostly sleeping - she can handle being held up to eat while Stef is painblocking but not otherwise - she's in less pain, at least while resting. She can't use her Gifts, either the new one or the existing ones, even thinking about it makes her wince, and one cautious try at listening with Thoughtsensing convinces her this is a bad plan.

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"She's getting better," Treven says, once Jisa is asleep again and he's sitting at the side of her bed, holding her hand. "But...pretty slowly. It might be less miserable for her overall to do the journey and get healed all at once at the end of it. And, well, strategically speaking it's better if she has usable Gifts sooner rather than later." 

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"It certainly is. And Lórien said he would help, if she proceeded against his advice?"

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"Yes. According to Jisa he didn't actually say it was a bad idea, even, just that it's not what he's for." 

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"Well. I guess that's as good as you'll get, from a Vala. Why don't you and Stef take her to Lórien, and we can see what he can do."

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"All right. And, thank you. I know I've been kind of upset about her being in pain, but still, thank you for figuring this out." 

They can take Jisa through the Gate to Vinyamar - this is uncomfortable but doesn't have the effect Gates did for Vanyel, presumably because her Gifts being awakened was unrelated for one, they're really hoping she doesn't end up allergic to the Silmarils because that would be highly inconvenient. They arrange a boat across the strait, and then a slower wagon journey since Jisa is in no shape to ride even a Companion, and reach Lórien within a week. 

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