:That he believes this wasn’t you or Leareth’s doing and we should continue trusting you, which I guess is some amount helpful of him:

:Well, that'll help if somebody gallops over to have a little telepathic chat, I guess:

:Leareth might have people who can do a Gate from Haven to here, but I suppose if the entire problem is that they’re feeling unsure of whether to trust you and Leareth, that doesn’t really work:

:We did call in a backup mage who's staying out of the way so she doesn't get sick in case there's an emergency. Like, if the place catches fire while everybody who could put it out is busy puking, or gods send wyrsa again or something:

:Right, Van told me. How’s Leareth doing today, by the way?:

:He was able to take this bizarre broth and honey mixture by mouth - I'd been imagining them separate but he said they sounded good together and tried it and liked it, it's so strange, the other patients who are up to drinking seem to agree:

:Huh! That's odd, it sounds disgusting. Guess it makes sense, though, could be like how food tastes better when you're hungry, people probably need the salt and nutrients pretty badly: 

:Might be useful for non-Healer treaters to tell when people are dehydrated. 'Does broth with honey in it sound appealing':

:Worth keeping in mind: Mental sigh. :You're doing so much for us. I'm really sorry people back home are being awful about it: 

:I'll live. Barring wyrsa or fire or something that backup can't rescue us from, I guess, I don't have my immortality all set up yet:

:Are you worried about that happening? Er, fire or wyrsa, I mean: 

:Not specifically. I assume it's a normal amount of possible for bad things to happen to us and then some extra from the gods making attempts on our lives, though:

:Wish we could do more to help, with that, but I'm not sure the Heralds have a lot of slack right now. Van's not sick and in a real emergency he can protect you two, I guess: 

:It's very fortunate he's got Healing, even a speck is protective:

:I know. It's really good that he's not out of commission too, he could hold off a significant attack all by himself if he had to: 

:I should get back to work but thanks for the heads up:

:You're welcome. Good luck: 

Belrun settles in for another day of bopping around between patients and rooms and hydrating people with weird mixes and Fetching. She checks on Leareth every couple of candlemarks to see how he's doing.

Twice in a row she finds Leareth fast asleep on top of a notebook where he was trying to come up with contingency-plans for if the situation worsens. In between naps, though, he's managing to down quite a lot of the honey-broth. 

She'll bring him more when he runs low.

Most of the Heralds are starting to turn a corner, now; even Kilchas is sitting up on his mat and cheerfully sipping broth. 

...However, over the course of the morning and early afternoon, two of Leareth's Healers start themselves feeling unwell. They've been trying to check and Heal themselves after shifts, but aren't as effective with it as Belrun. 

...Well. They know the drill, throw everything they've got at themselves as hard as they can and eat a huge dinner and drink a lot of water and go to sleep and hope they clear it. Belrun starts checking the other Healers as well as herself, judging the loss if one gets sick worse than her own reduced availability when she's spending reserves and time on that.

Gemma thinks that they're all pushing themselves hard - they're eating and sleeping a reasonable amount but it's hard to fully offset the exhaustion of using your Gift hard all day, and having none of it left for the kind of instinctive low-level self-Healing that most trained Healers do while asleep. She's not sure what else to do, though, unless Leareth can Gate more people over? 

"He can't, he's still sick himself. We do have a backup person camped out well out of contagion range for emergencies and I could ask her."

"I think that's worth doing. Worried we're going to wear ourselves down even more, with fewer people on, or end up neglecting the patients when they need us."