The baby improves quickly with a bit of Healing attention thrown her way; the mother is incredibly grateful and, given the circumstances, expresses her gratitude from a polite distance rather than hugging Belrun. 

Gemma Mindspeaks her when the other Healers are eating lunch to ask if she's ready to come back and have some. 

:We're circling back now, though if you're well staffed enough over there I should maybe make another round this afternoon before the people from Haven show up, get more water into people:

:We're good on staffing, that's an excellent idea: 

Belrun's in a reasonably good mood as being in a plague zone goes when she brings Leareth lunch.

He's reading one of his books and seems reasonably cheerful. "Chess rematch?" 

"Sure. You're looking livelier." She sets up.

"I am feeling much better! I think having so much personal Healing attention must help." 

"It does! You've got the next best thing to being a Healer yourself."

"How was your morning?" 

"I did housecalls in the village! It was a great change of pace, especially for Amshalan, I'll go make another turn around after lunch and before the Heralds show up to watch me assert I did not give that poor tiny baby the flu."

"- Oh no, is someone's baby ill with it? Babies are especially vulnerable to illness, I thought." 

"Yeah, a six week old. I got him breathing all right and I'm going back there first after lunch in case I don't have time to hit every house, see how it's sticking."

"Mmm. I am glad you were able to help." 

:Belrun? Are you busy?: 

:Finishing lunch and then was going to make more house calls in the village, why:

:Just got word of Haven on the relay. There's, um, kind of a giant scandal now. Some information got, er, leaked: 

:Oh for fuck's sake, what is it now:

:...I don't know if you knew this, but Jisa is my biological daughter. Randi's sterile. That was a secret until, um, apparently this morning. People are very upset: 

:...she's not even his heir, how much can this possibly be in the interest of - you and Shavri? - did Jisa know this?:

:I don't know! Maybe it just seeming kind of scandalous in isolation, and - worries that the royal line will die out entirely, there are rumours down there that Treven is dying although as far as I knew he wasn't even sick. I think one of the nobles in town - none of the Council's there but some nobles who aren't even from Haven traveled in to be annoying, apparently - proposed Jisa could marry Treven because that legitimizes his claim, which is stupid anyway but then it came out that she's not actually a blood-relative. And everyone is mad. It's really dumb: 

:It is really dumb: She fidgets with a chess piece, makes a legal but fairly boneheaded move with it. "Scandal broke in Haven. Nothing to do with us but this is sure a lot, what are they getting at -"

:The nobles back home are apparently saying they won't take Treven as heir anyway, because he's too young and Randi's going to die: 

"I have no idea!" Leareth confesses in answer to her comment, lifting his hands helplessly. 

:This isn't secret, anymore, right, I can tell Leareth? Do you know who told - who even knew -: