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tiny leareth comes back and is very sad
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Heavy mental sigh. :Yes, you can tell Leareth, hardly any point keeping it secret now. We're going to have to brief everyone on the Council, er, everyone who's well enough, better that than waiting for the rumours to get to them. We don't know who let it slip. The Companions all knew, apparently, and at least didn't deny it when their Heralds asked about the rumours, which was as good as confirmation. That doesn't answer how the rumours started though: 

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"Apparently Randi is sterile and Jisa is secretly Vanyel's." :I didn't know they gossiped quite that freely, I'll have to have a word with Amshalan:

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"Oh dear. That - really ought not affect anything - but of course people will find it the juiciest of gossip." 

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:I didn't know either! Yfandes and I might've, er, just had a fight about it. Although she has successfully kept a lot of secrets for me, before, including everything about Leareth up until it came out with the Heralds: 

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:As you just described to me, the Companions knowing things and not being willing to lie is itself an avenue for things to leak! At least if some god is bent on this being the most eventful month in a few decades, even if not normally! Besides, I talk to Amshalan meaning to talk to her, not everybody on hooves:

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:That's really reasonable on your part!: 

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:Anyway, thank you for updating me: "Let's wrap this up fast, if things are going to keep happening at this density I want to go check on the baby and the other villagers with plenty of time to spare before a thing is scheduled to happen." She advances a pawn at random.

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Leareth is more with it today and Belrun, due to various distractions, is not exactly on her best form, and Leareth wins fairly quickly. He leans against her for a moment before she leaves. :I love you. Take care. Oh, and - can you keep me updated on the weird occurrings? I am trying to form a theory of what the gods are even hoping to achieve here, I think the picture is still incomplete because it makes no sense:  

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"Yeah, I'll try." She kisses his head, goes out to meet Amshalan. Asks her how much she gossips with the other Companions.

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:Honestly, not much! Back when I was Sayshen, I remember decades and decades of never having anything to gossip about myself, my Chosen had nothing to do with me anymore. I just listened. Guess that's the habit I'm in, especially since I went a long time before Choosing in this lifetime too: 

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:Oh good. I'd been pretty sure you weren't telling everybody about, oh, Leareth's master plan, but I would also have imagined Yfandes and - what's Randi's Companion's name - wouldn't have blabbed about Jisa's parentage!:

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:What! They can't have blabbed to everyone, because I didn't know that until now! Also, wow, what a mess: 

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:Well, if they were selective they weren't selective enough! Apparently it's a massive scandal - I'd expect people to talk, it's certainly lurid or would be after a few embellishments, but it doesn't seem relevant in principle since there's nothing to make it look like Jisa'd been going to ascend to the throne!:

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:Hmm. I wonder if the scandal is mostly just that it makes Randi look bad? Because he did basically lie about it. And Shavri and Vanyel too, I guess: 

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:I guess. But why is Someone out to make the Heralds look bad?:

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:Because they're - we're - helping Leareth, and some god doesn't want that? I don't know. It also seems like some god does want that, since I got a Call for you. I'm very confused: 

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:If this is what it looks like when gods have a tiff...:

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:I don't like it! It's very rude of Them!:

Amshalan drops Belrun off at the first house on her call-route. 

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How's the little itty baby doing.

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Itty bitty baby is still having occasional fits of wheezing that alarm her mother, but she's more alert and less floppy, she's able to nurse at her mother's breast, and her mother says that her lips only go a little blue during the worst of the wheezing instead of being blue all the time like before Belrun came by. 

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That's better than she feared but she will still Heal the itty bitty baby who is so small a fair bit more before telling the mother to nurse, a lot, as much as the baby can stand, even if she spits it all up and it's very discouraging.

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The mother really appreciates her advice! The others in the household are all doing better, they really appreciate the weird idea about broth with honey in it. 

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Savil Mindtouches her on house number three. :Belrun, um, Van woke up this morning with a bad cough, he said he was fine because he doesn't have a fever anymore, but now he's kind of coughing up blood and this is alarming: 

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:That does sound alarming and nobody else has been doing it. I'm not positive I can get to him today, I'm out in the village and the people from Haven may show up any minute, is everyone else busy?:

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:Gemma is and I haven't actually met any of Leareth's day shift Healers to Mindspeak them. I can ask Gemma to do it for me though. Reckon Van might have weaker lungs because he had a very bad pneumonia a few years back: 

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