Leareth would like forehead kisses, and to hold Levris' hand while he falls asleep, it's not clear why that does anything to help but it really does. 

A while after he falls asleep, Nayoki comes back with another man who introduces himself as a Healer and pulls up a chair at Leareth's bedside, opposite Levris. 

Nayoki leans against the wall. :I am sorry, I realized you might be bored. Do you want books? I have some on Mindhealing. When Leareth is awake I can check that he does not mind my sharing my research with you, but there are some things he ought explain first: 

:Books are good! I can entertain myself indefinitely with books.:

(And he's probably going to have to.)

:Of course. You know, he told me in Mindspeech that you were very interesting and I would like you. I had to tell him to stop Mindspeaking because he would hurt himself, so I did not have a chance to hear more: 

:I'm pretty sure he'd say I was interesting whether or not I really was, because of the lifebond.:

She gives him a mildly skeptical look. :Anyway. You were attacked in Baires? What did you do to hold them off?: 

:Tried to lay a set-compulsion on them but it didn't work because they were Heralds. So I wound up inflicting severe synaesthesia on them instead. I hope Melody can sort it out. --Got a chance to look at Companion minds and they're very strangely laid out:

:Oh, fascinating! Say more?: Nayoki looks genuinely very interested. 

:I didn't get a chance to look at them closely because I was in combat at the time but they're... twisted around something? I guess is the best way to put it.:

:That makes sense. They are beings partially made by a god, shaped to be a certain way: 

:My metaphor is libraries, so:-- he sends over a picture-- :they're just... laid out in this incredibly strange way, and it's all... around something I can't really poke at.:

:What a good Sight metaphor! I like it. Mine is not as friendly for looking at the details in a neat way: 

:What's yours?:

:Bread: She can show him a couple of anonymous examples from her memories. They're more distinct from each other at a glance, in some overall-gestalt way, than minds under Levris' Sight - and she can do large, nonspecific shifts more easily - but it's obvious that it would be harder for her to keep track of exact fine details and return to the same ones as reliably as he can with books on a shelf. 

:Oh, wow, that's fascinating. We should look at the same person sometime and compare.:

:We could ask Leareth if he minds, once he is in better shape: Nayoki straightens up. :I should go back to work, but I will send over some books for you. Hopefully he will recover faster now that he is somewhere he feels safe and is not having to fight with magic: 

:I hope so too. Thank you for talking with me.:

Someone else drops off some books for him a few minutes later. Leareth remains asleep until suppertime, although he's easy to prod awake and the Healer isn't worried. 

His head feels gluey but doesn't hurt anymore. "Sorry for being so boring," he manages. 

"It's all right," Levris says. "I got some reading about Mindhealing done. You have a lot of books."

Levris reaches out to check whether Leareth's mind is in order.

Chuckle. "I certainly have plenty of books. You ought to ask Nayoki to show you the library here." 

Leareth's mind is not fully de-gunked but the books are mostly back in order now. 

"I will."

...Levris looks somewhat uncomfortable.

Leareth is with it enough that he eventually notices this. He reaches for Levris' hand, almost without realizing that he's doing it. "Is something wrong?" 

"Um. I like... books? And interesting intellectual work to do? And if I'm allowed to Mindheal people sometimes that is good? That is basically what I need to be happy."

Leareth pulls himself into a sitting position. He's so confused. "Those all seem to be unsurprising facts about you. Why are you - feeling a need to repeat them to me now?" 

"...because I am in some location I don't know with my lifebonded who is very mysterious and very powerful and I don't know what he wants except that he is probably evil, and I just gave up every relationship I had with anyone other than him?"