"That makes sense." 

"I can come with you." Leareth prefers not to sleep where Belrun isn't. 

"Sure."

Then they can go on with their previous activities until bedtime draws near, and Leareth changes into pyjamas and then grabs his things and troops after Belrun to the room that's been made up with a hay floor to be comfortable for Amshalan. 

She explains to Amshalan that Nayoki's going to duck in and try this thing to make the lifebond fix itself faster and she hopes to sleep through it but might wake up very unhappy and Leareth is here too so they don't have to be in separate rooms assuming that's okay.

:Yes, of course, by all means: She can wriggle over so there's room for both of them to snuggle up. :Hey, Leareth: 

Leareth nods to her. Yawns. He's still been tending to fall asleep very early. 

They can all curl up in a heap together.

And Nayoki answers Leareth's Mindspeech summons and hovers nearby. Once Belrun is fully, and deeply, asleep, she can push Mindhealing juuuuuust toward the area of her mind affected by the broken, partially-reformed lifebond. She starts it gently this time and ramps up more slowly, in case that's less likely to wake Belrun. 

It takes Belrun an entire minute to wake up all the way, though she starts sounding really distressed while talking in her sleep before that. When she wakes up she lurches out of the cuddlepile to find the least disastrous place to throw up, does so, and then starts crying.

Amshalan held off on doing anything during, but she offers wordless reassurance through their bond, not pushing it so much as gently extending an imaginary mental hand that Belrun can take if she wants. 

Nayoki started backing off a bit when the distressed sleeptalking became audible, and does so nearly all the way when Belrun wakes up. "I am sorry. That may be enough for the effect we wanted." 

Belrun wipes her mouth on her sleeve before faceplanting on Amshalan. :If you're not sure I'd rather get it over with than do this again or be more crippled than necessary for the next year or three:

"May I have a look to check?" 

:Mhm: She's hugging Amshalan and leaning into the one mind control that whatever its other features at least usually feels cozy so she can try to ignore the other one that does not.

:I'm here. It'll be done soon: 

Leareth isn't quite all the way awake, but he's awake enough to find Belrun and snuggle up against her from the other side. 

"I will be more confident it is as thorough as possible with another thirty seconds or so." (She's been pushing in enough Mindhealing to keep it the same amount of squishy, while avoiding being any more upsetting than it has to be, so she won't have lost any ground to warm up again.) "If you can handle that now?" 

:Yeah get it over with:

Then Nayoki will get it over with, going for 'fast' rather than 'gentle' this time. 

Snuggle snuggle snuggle. 

Belrun tries to think about anything else. It's hard. She winds up counting by threes, pressing half-moons into her hand.

"Done." She doesn't try to make the trail-off gentle either. Just - snap, and suddenly the walls are not melting even a little bit anymore and everything is back to normal. 

And she can feel Leareth quite a lot more. He's still drowsy, but picking up on her tension; he's worried, still trying to orient, he doesn't wake up scared anymore these days but it sometimes still takes him a while to figure out where and when he is, and being in a different room from usual doesn't help. 

She tugs him to her with one arm and catches her breath. :Thank you: