Well, it's not the worst reaction he's gotten to being shay'a'chern. 

And now he gets to hold Leareth's hand, and stare at Leareth, and appreciate how Leareth has the best face in the whole entire world and makes such GOOD expressions even while he is asleep.

The day passes very slowly. The Healers are thoughtfully keeping his room dim and quiet, and Leareth sleeps for most of it, occasionally waking up enough to mumble that he's thirsty or in pain; they have a trainee sitting with him for most of the afternoon, who can get him water and pain-drugs. 

It's not until around evening shift change that Leareth drifts more fully to alertness. His head is throbbing, but not too badly to think. The twinge when he breathes hints at broken ribs that were mostly Healed but are still pretty sore. He still has the deep sense that he's safe, he's with someone he can trust, but - hmm, he doesn't actually know where he is, which is kind of worrying. 

He opens his eyes a crack. Oh, it's the Valdemaran Mindhealer, Levris, who's holding his hand for some reason - it seems like the sort of thing that he ought to find weird and surprising but instead it feels normal and expected, what. Is he in Valdemar? That makes no sense and would be pretty concerning.

Leareth clears his throat. "Where am I?" 

"A House of Healing in Baires. You fell into a river."

Levris Mindspeaks a Healer. :He's awake.:

Then he considers which is the least startling way to bring up that Levris is Leareth's lifebonded.

Oh right he remembers now. "Actually I think a bridge collapsed on me–" he starts coughing. 

:On my way: the Healer sends. 

...okay probably if he hears it from a Healer that will be more startling and Levris is not really sure at all how to explain this to the healer so, uh, here goes. 

:I am sorry for surprising you when you have a head injury:, Levris says, :but I am quite certain we're lifebonded.:

Leareth's instinctive response to this, once he's spent five seconds even processing the words, is very stupid, though in fairness (he thinks afterward) he has a head injury. His response is to yelp and attempt to Gate out. It's unclear how this would help even if it worked, which it doesn't; instead he ends up screaming in pain, making the floor shake, and accidentally setting the curtains on fire. 

The Healer comes running in. Fortunately, since it's known that mages sometimes do this and the House of Healing sees a lot of mage-gifted patients, there's a damp towel draped over a chair for this purpose, and the trainee who sprints in a second later uses it to smother the flames while the senior Healer darts to Leareth's bedside and gently nudges him to lie down again. :What happened?: he sends to Levris. 

:He woke up and lit the curtains on fire. I don't know what happened.:

To Leareth: :Sorry, sorry, very sorry about this.: and Levris calms him. :They don't know we just lifebonded and I would rather not... explain.:

Ugh, Leareth does not like being forcibly calmed down against his will when the situation is, in fact, bad and deserving of some sort of drastic response, on the other hand, panicking is clearly not doing anything useful so he'll take it.

:Show me...?: If they're not fully lifebonded yet then maybe he can at least tell Levris to go away now, even if he definitely isn't going anywhere himself - somehow that thought feels very bad, it feels scary to imagine Levris not being there, safe and comforting and trustworthy, however that is definitely a lifebond feeling and not his feeling and, in summary, aaaaaaaaaaaa. 

Levris shows him the secret passageway in Levris's brain. :Can I look at yours?:

(Levris feels a quiet sense of impending doom.)

:Yes, you can look at mine and show me: 

Levris' side of it looks pretty solidly rooted, damn it why wasn't he paying more attention, if he'd noticed he could have dropped all his meetings and Gated out - or not spent candlemarks last night talking to Levris, that has to be when it got enough of a start that Levris knew when he was in the river. Of course, if Levris hadn't known then he would probably be dead...possibly having to start over in a new body would actually be less inconvenient than getting stuck with a lifebond of all things, how, why... 

The series of convenient coincidences here gives him a good guess at who. 

Levris.. very carefully looks at as little as possible of Leareth's brain and just shows him the passageway.

:Mine opened up when I took out the book that's the memory of how I met you but I don't want to go digging around in your books since you don't like it.:

Gah. :You looking at my mind is really the least of my worries right now!: Leareth is involuntarily projecting significant distress along the lifebond, and also in general, he's still groggy enough to not be shielding that well. That - sure looks like a lifebond that's now not going anywhere, if he'd been more with it he could probably have noticed it introspectively by now.

(He briefly considers whether he should kill himself and start over in a new body in hopes the lifebond doesn't ride along, but then all of his emotions are screaming that this is a horrible thing to do to Levris, and also it might not even work...) 

:Do you not... want... to be lifebonded?:

:It is very inconvenient!: 

Levris curls up. :Sorry.: He doesn't quite manage to avoid accidentally sending the thought :even your lifebonded doesn't want you.:

:...I am sorry if I am hurting your feelings: It's a horrible situation but that isn't Levris' fault and the fact that he's now upset about it is very upsetting to Leareth too! As is the fact that he can't even have emotions without involuntarily inflicting them on someone else who really doesn't deserve it! :It is not that there is anything wrong with you - you are very good - I just, I do not have positive feelings about lifebonds on principle...:

Which won't do him any good at this point, he can't undo being lifebonded. Stupid god scheme. Also it seems like doing accidental magic and then a lot of Mindspeaking while recovering from a head injury isn't the best idea, he's in a lot of pain now and quickly running into a wall of 'no more thinking' and he just wishes he could go back to the part where he was comfortable and there was a safe-trustworthy person nearby and he didn't have to try to have any plans about it... The light hurts so he pulls the covers over his head. :I am sorry: he manages, :please do not leave...: 

:I won't leave unless you want me to.:

Misery misery misery misery.

Ugh he would really prefer not being bathed in lifebond-conveyed misery, but trying to say any more words about it is unlikely to help. Leareth manages eventually to mumble to the Healer who's there that he's fine and he just wants to sleep in peace, and he curls up, desperately wishing he could use magic enough to Gate out or even just send a message, but nope, he's trapped here with his miserable lifebonded. He eventually does manage to actually fall asleep. 

If Leareth hadn't asked him to stay Levris would be on a horse and back on his circuit, lifebond or no lifebond, but Leareth wanted him to stay (wanted something from him!) and so Levris is going to sit here being uncomfortably aware that he's so awful that he somehow managed to get one person in the world magically destined to love him and even that person can't stand him.

Eventually the night shift Healer comes back. "You should get some sleep," he says kindly. "...Are you all right? You look upset. Someone did tell you that he's going to make a full recovery, right? You did great, getting to him quickly in the river - it's not your fault..." 

"Sorry, it's unrelated," Levris says. "Is there a way I can be-- around here? I don't want to leave him."

"Yes, of course." They can lend him a bedroll to put on the floor by the window, only feet away from Leareth's bed.