"I love you too. See you tomorrow." Tired smile. "I am desperately looking forward to your being able to sleep in this bed again." 

"I'm not nostalgic about this specific inn-room's bed but I miss sleeping next to you."

"Oh, yes, our bedroom in the north is far superior, but I am trying to look forward to one thing at a time." 

Pat pat. "Soon."

She goes to sleep on Amshalan again.

Amshalan is pretty pleased about the snuggles, but won't begrudge it at all when Belrun can go back to sleeping in an actual bed again. 

In the morning she's already alert when Belrun wakes. :Heard back from Rolan about Haven: 

:Good news or bad?::

:...I'd say mixed. He went in and very loudly and firmly told the temporary Council that'd put itself together to settle down and that nothing will catch fire if they wait a couple of weeks for the rest of the Heralds and Council to get back, and they've calmed down a least a little. I think the random people have stopped doing riots, I'm not even sure what those were about or who was orchestrating it, but Rolan being in the city seems to have made it stop: 

:This is a really unusual amount of direct action from a Companion acting alone, isn't it - I wonder if that's part of the same phenomenon as the gods getting less subtle:

:I'm not sure the Groveborn has ever gone out and just talked to people like that before! It's really odd. Feels like something is changing, moving into a new phase. It's - sort of refreshing, but it also makes me uneasy:

:Uneasy how?:

:I don't know, just - that we can't predict what'll happen next based on historical precedent? Iftel and Karse both attacking at once would be unprecedented, and - it might not even be that, it might be some other blatant intervention that we won't think of until it hits us: 

:Yeah. Shadowgod pushing for, uh, Operation Queen Belrun, is... encouraging sort of but in a way that suggests trusting to faith in an entity that cannot talk more than is really comfortable:

:I know. Why are the gods so bad at talking, anyway? Leareth must have a plan to make his - less like that, I wish it'd work to just shove whatever it is at the existing gods so they can talk it out with the relevant human leaders in WORDS and not have stupid proxy arguments using wyrsa and flu: 

:Words would be great! Interpretive dance would not be great but it'd be an improvement!:

Mental giggle. :Weird silver web thing is an improvement on random wyrsa, I think. Also an improvement on lifebonds and Companions getting Calls. Anyway. The mixed news is that Haven was full of various people running around like headless chickens, and now they're still acting like headless chickens but sitting down. It's going to be an uphill battle to get a consensus on anything. Rolan thinks it might actually be easier to shock everyone into agreement on something bold and daring, but - headless chickens. I'm very glad not to be in Rolan's place right now: 

:I don't have a great read on his personal feelings on the matter but it seems like he's coping all right, at least:

:The Groveborn always seem to cope all right. Guess it's what they're made for, though - I think Rolan is pushing his limitations pretty hard nowadays: 

:Hopefully the Shadowgod has, uh, accounted for those limitations:

:I hope so too. I hope it's the kind of thing They care about: 

:I wish I knew what they cared about at all. They seem, well, closer than the Star-Eyed and Vkandis, but - maybe just close enough to get things more deeply wrong than general murder and mayhem, you know - like the lifebond was really -:

:If a human had done that for some scheme it'd be extremely manipulative - I think even Leareth would hesitate to use something as permanent and pervasive as an involuntary lifebond for his plans, even if had mind-control powers that included lifebonding people. I - don't know that gods have the option of not being manipulative: 

:Yeah. Maybe I should ask him more about how he's designing his - I wonder, if the Shadowgod is generally receptive, if he could use the same ideas to modify an existing god, maybe with lower power requirements -:

:–Oooooh! That would be absolutely brilliant if we could pull it off. I hadn't thought of it at all: 

Belrun writes it down.

:Anyway I think that's all the relevant news from Haven: Nuzzle. :I bet you'll be sleeping with your lifebonded again by tonight, lucky man. I've enjoyed the cuddles but it's for the best, I'm not a real bed: