"I guess ask for updates on what the Star-Eyed and Vkandis are up to?" 

"That's a good idea." She writes that down also. "Uh, They might know more specifically than we do when to expect the rebound Cataclysm, that would be good to know."

"I would certainly appreciate a second check." 

"Whether there's any more gods to worry about or go to for support, like how I was wondering if Astera's actually fine. Uh, whether to trust channels of information that probably are divine in nature but could be anybody, like Foresight."

"If we could get confirmation one way or another of which gods did which bits of my dream with Leareth, that'd be neat." 

"Yeah, that's a good idea. We can update this list on a rolling basis but these seem like the highlights for now..."

"Oh. I should ask if there's a better way of contacting Them. Kind of surprised I've never gotten around to asking that before, but - I guess at the time I mostly wished gods would stop talking to me." 

"Which is fair, but if they have a good idea, then you can offload the responsibility?"

"That'd be great!" 

She offers him the written-up list.

He takes it. "Leareth, should we talk about the Heartstone thing some more?" 

"Of course." 

The two of them launch into a conversation about magic which is very rapidly too technical for Belrun to make much sense of. 

She flops her head onto Leareth's lap and reads.

Leareth plays with her hair and occasionally kisses her nose while it's Vanyel's turn to say something. 

Eventually they both run out of material to cover and questions to ask. "I will consider this further," Leareth says. 

"It's kind of a terrifying project but I'm glad you asked me, it'd be silly to end up moving the entire capital without even checking how feasible it is to just - solve the Heartstone issue." 

"Plus if it can be decoupled from Her it's valuable both for its current purpose and as a generic power source."

"That would feel pretty satisfying." 

"And save, uh, however many lives, in the worst case."

"Fair enough, that's also a good point." 

"Can you think of a better method than we've been using for talking about this in generalities without disclosing the exact nature of the terrible secret plan, with people like the rest of the Senior Circle or the various Lords?"

"Hmm. I feel like I should be able to but I don't have anything specific right now. Ooh, wait, this is the same as when you were trying to get me to come up with other weird hypotheticals, before!" 

"Similar idea, yes. We'd like a way to say 'we're trying to figure out alternatives to killing ten million people' without saying 'we're going to kill ten million people by default'."

"Right. Hmm, what else even lets you get a ton of power... That's sort of the problem, isn't it. Um, I guess you could say 'steal all the Heartstones' as a hypothetical, it's just a ridiculous one. Drain...the ocean..? I don't actually know that you could turn that into mage-power at all, it just sounds impressive." 

"That's the process that got me 'blow up the moon', pretty much. All the Heartstones would be good if it turns out to be somehow feasible to steal them but She's pretty hypervigilant about Leareth activity near Her stuff."

"And she can't be any more comfortable about the thought of it being both of you, you're scary enough separately."