"I understand. Go rest. You were working hard."

Leareth still misses her; he's cold and would appreciate a Belrun to snuggle, but it makes sense for her not to, so he drags himself up to get an extra blanket from the closet instead, and curls up to go back to sleep; he's already feeling a bit better. 

She finds Amshalan in the stables and flops on her at an angle calculated to avoid Sunbeam In Face and is out like a light.

No one bothers her at sunrise! 

Shortly later Amshalan gets woken by a message from Kellan. She insists she is absolutely not waking Belrun, Belrun was up half the night treating all the sick people and she's risking getting sick too if she doesn't get her needed rest, but she does stay awake and wait for the first signs of wakefulness in her Chosen. 

Belrun eventually stops mumbling words and shifts position a bit.

Very gentle mental poke, not enough to wake her if she's not there on her own yet. 

:Mm?:

:I'm sorry, but - some not-great news: A hesitation. :Lord Lathan didn't survive the night. Gemma didn't think it was worth waking you yet again, when they already had five people in a Healing-meld and you can't even do melds, and - it seemed overdetermined, he was really old and in bad shape before this, but...:

Her flanks swell and subside as she takes a slow breath. :And there are some very stupid suspicions that you and Leareth masterminded this. None of the Heralds, obviously, they're standing up for you, but a couple of the lords, apparently Leverance's wife went to Lord Kaltar about it and they're, er, upset: 

:Leareth's sick. I caught it early, when I went back to bed he was warm, but he got sick. That's why I'm here, if I fell asleep on him I'd be breathing it for hours:

:You would think that’s a counterexample to him having schemed this with you! Some people have no sense, though. It’s good you caught it early with Leareth, this flu seems unusually nasty. Savil’s too ill to get out of bed today, I think Van is trying to take care of her, he’s got a tiny bit of Healing:

Yawn. :I should draw the blobby blood cell and see if anybody else can get a fix on them, boosting those is a relatively efficient way to go about this, they eat viruses: She's got paper on her, not much but enough to sketch a blobby blood cell. She stands up and pats Amshalan and heads out to bolt down some breakfast and then make for the infirmary.

The infirmary is packed. Extra fold-out cots have been dragged in, some more patients are on mats on the floor. It doesn't look like it's just Heralds and Council and this point, either. One of Leareth's mage-guards is sick; so is the barmaid who brought them lunch two days ago. Everyone is separated by more sheets hung from sort of makeshift clotheslines to make curtained cubicles. Three of the new-arrival Healers are there, going between patients encouraging them to drink water; the fourth must be checking on those patients who are still in their own rooms. 

Gemma sees her. "Oh, Belrun, thank the gods - your Companion said not to wake you but we're so overwhelmed–"

"It is her!" A different elderly lady in an over-elaborate silk nightgown darts out from her cubicle. "We know you did this! I'm disgusted with you people, plotting to betray Valdemar like this!" 

"Ma'am, my lifebonded is also sick. If anybody wants to Truth Spell me about it to be sure I didn't infect him with a deadly illness on purpose I'll repeat the statement then. In the meantime if you don't like me I'm sure someone else can treat you." She finds somebody who isn't yelling at her to work on.

Most of the people are not yelling at her and are in fact giving the lady irritated looks! Those of them who aren't too ill to care one way or another. Kilchas is looking pretty bad; he's moderately dehydrated, probably because he's been vomiting as evidenced by the basin beside him, and along with a high fever this is making his heart work harder - and like a lot of older people who haven't necessarily always taken good care of themselves, some of the blood vessels that supply blood to his heart are narrowed, it probably hasn't ever caused him trouble before now but it's starting to now. 

She gives Gemma the sketch of a blobby cell and outlines how she helps them along and then starts Fetching water into people who can't drink it. Into their intestines will be better than nothing if they can't keep it down, there's some absorption from there. Unless they have diarrhea, do they?

Kilchas doesn't; a couple of other people do, which is very inconvenient when they're too weak to make it to the privy out back of the building and there's already a shortage of Healers to do Healing much less haul people to a chamberpot. At least no one is both vomiting and having diarrhea at the same time. 

If nobody's doing both everybody can be hydrated, that seems her comparative advantage right now.

The other Healers are really impressed with her trick! They're delighted for her to focus on ensuring everyone is hydrated, that was such a struggle before, a couple of other patients are too delirious to cooperate with drinking. 

:Belrun?: Shavri sends, in the late morning. :Are you all doing all right? I would help, but - Randi - it would be very bad if he got sick and I mustn't risk exposing him. I holed us both up in our room as soon as I heard anyone was ill and we haven't had contact with anyone. But Gemma hasn't updated me since yesterday and I don't know how things are now: 

:Last night Gemma woke me and I had Leareth gate in a handful of our Healers to help cover things. And yeah, I totally understand, Leareth got it somehow, I don't think from me but I can't be sure. I caught it early so hopefully he's doing okay: Come to think of it, can she tell over the lifebond if he's awake yet, she'd been going to check in more -

Soundly asleep. 

Then she'll check in later when he's up, sleep is good for sick people. :One death so far, Lord Lathan. I'm mostly keeping people hydrated since I'm a Fetcher and can see where the stomach is:

:Whoa! What an incredibly clever idea. I've been mainly trying to boost Randi's body's defences, in case he was exposed a bit but hasn't come down with it yet, I don't know how much the other Healers know how to do that though. Gemma hasn't practiced using her Gift nearly as precisely as I have, much less you: