"Uh, maybe we should leave them to it," he says quietly to Fazil.

He nods. They go around the corner.

Vanyel eventually slides down the wall to sit on the carpet. :I'm sorry: 

:No, I am: 

Both of them sit silently on the library floor for a long time. 

There are some more Mindspeech exchanges. 

Finally, Vanyel gets up and starts crossing the room. Yfandes scrambles up as well, rushing to join him, and he flings his arms around her neck and bursts into tears. :Gods, 'Fandes, I missed you so much: 

:I missed you too. Never letting go of you again. Never ever ever: 

If nobody disturbs him, Vanyel will hang onto Yfandes' neck and sob for a pretty long time. 

They are definitely going to leave them alone at least until dinner.

The lantern archon wanders the palace grounds exploring.

Leareth gets back with his shopping well before dinner, immediately Mindspeaks the two of them while he looks around for them. :Any updates?: 

Yfandes is back! She and Van are talking. We figured we should mostly leave them alone.

Leareth relaxes a little. :Oh. That is very good to hear: 

Yeah. So maybe you and Hagan and Mahdi can go to Rahadoum and we can go to Valdemar, get things cleared up there.

:That seems like a reasonable plan. If Vanyel is up for it - I am not sure if he will need some recovery time now that she is back. Have we heard anything back from the archon you sent?: 

I am not expecting to hear anything until I try to summon it again in the morning, and maybe not even then if they still have it there.

:Ah - does it return to its home plane when they release it, not to here?: 

Yes. They can't do planar travel under their own power, inconveniently. 

:That does make sense, since you said they are not very powerful. I suppose there is not actually much reason I need to stay and hear the return message, so we could leave - tomorrow morning, it seems rather late to depart tonight: 

"I can tell my guy to expect us in the morning."

Nod. 

Vanyel disentangles himself from Yfandes around dinnertime, and somehow sheepishly makes his way to find the others, trying to navigate a route for Yfandes where she fits through all the doors. 

"I could make you a miniature horse," Mahdi says. "I'm not sure if that's horribly rude to offer but I could."

Yfandes stops and then bursts into mental laughter, tossing her head back and forth. :Really? How does that work? Also, er, for how long - I don't want to be miniature permanently, Van wouldn't be able to ride me: 

"Nine hours! There's a version of Reduce Person for animals and I researched it when I started travelling with a horse!"

:You can shrink people too? Huh!: