<We are coming close to an emergency here. Belrun needs support from other Healers. Wake them right away. Gate in several minutes> 

He spends the several minutes trying to shake off the middle-of-the-night-grogginess enough that he can Gate. 

Back in the infirmary, someone is knocking on the door. "It's Lord Kathar here." Cough. "My wife and I are both ill tonight." 

Belrun opens the door. "We're shorthanded but expecting backup to arrive soon," she says, "and we're out of beds, can you give me the room number and I'll send someone to you as soon as they're here?"

"Um, yes, of course..." The man fumbles out a room number, stopping to cough into his elbow. "But don't take too long, please, I'm worried about Ettia." 

:Gate is up now: Leareth sends, his mindvoice sounding pretty tired. :Four Healers are on their way to you. Do you need my further help or can I go back to sleep now: 

:Go back to sleep, I'll be with you as soon as I've handed things off:

:Mmm, seeyasoon...: Leareth takes the Gate down and rolls over and tries to go back to sleep. Being woken in the middle of the night is really unpleasant, he has a headache from it even. He's asleep within seconds. 

:Belrun?: one of the Healers sends as they creep down the darkened hallway for the inn's upper floor bedrooms. :Where should we be headed?: 

She calls most of them to the infirmary, sends one of them to Lord Kathar's room.

They are very helpful and well-coordinated, and Leareth also sent through a couple of non-Healers who can be assistants; one of them goes to see if more beds can be gotten for the infirmary room. 

:You have any tricks for treating this?: Gemma sends before she leaves. :Worried his heart is just going to give out on me, and I'm not managing to get the inflammation in his lungs under control: 

:I have much less clinical experience than you. If you have your Sight fine enough you can find and try to boost the blobby cells that live in the blood -: Yawn. :I can bring you a sketch tomorrow but I wasn't planning to be night shift tonight -:

:Fair enough, neither was I, I just figured I ought to nap in the cot next to Lathan since there was no one else who could stay nearby. Get some sleep, I'll work with Leareth's Healers: 

:Thanks. Night:

And she washes her hands and spot-checks in her nose and mouth again.

No flu. 

Then she will tell Amshalan she can go back to sleep and go creep under the covers next to Leareth again.

:You're doing great. I'm so sorry this is what tonight is like, you should luxuriously sleep in if you can: 

Leareth feels kind of warm. 

Mmmmnicecozywarmwaitfuck.

"Wake up."

"Mrrgg?" Leareth clears his throat and winces. Comes a little more awake. "Belrun, is everything all right?" 

"You're hot. Do you feel okay - drink some water, you don't want to be already thirsty if your throat swells up -" She grabs him a glass.

"- Actually I am not feeling very well. Very achy, my throat hurts - sorry I know you said to tell you, I think I did not wake up enough to notice before. Or I thought it was just unpleasant being woken from a deep sleep." 

"Sorry, though if you're about to be too sick to do magic too I'm glad I did rather than waiting." She pours him more water. "I'm not doing great on reserves but as long as you don't have it too badly yet can you boost me with a node, and I can start on you now and then we can both sleep late?"

Leareth sips the water and taps a node - it does make his headache worse and his control feels off, but he's not doing any fiddly magic, passing some of it along the lifebond to Belrun is hard to screw up. 

She hassles his blobby blood cells into doing their work. Then she kisses his forehead, spot-checks herself, and gets up again to go sleep on Amshalan. "If I catch it..." she murmurs, but she doesn't finish the sentence.