Vanyel somehow managed to stay on his feet for - it felt like several centuries, while on FIRE and throwing everything he had into his shields and it's not enough and–

–and then they're somewhere else and he's still not in pain exactly, Fazil had cast Delay Pain on him, but something is very badly wrong and everything is rapidly fading out to black and then he collapses in a heap on the sand. 

Yfandes did not have Delay Pain and being on FIRE was agonizing, but she's also a Companion - they're not ordinary horses in more than one way, she's a lot tougher than any ordinary non-magical being could be - and it's not enough, when they are suddenly elsewhere she can't stay on her feet and it's all she can do not to fall literally on top of her Chosen, but she's still just barely conscious. 

:Fazil you need to - Van...: 

As soon as they land he channels energy at all of them. Falls over into the hot sand, mumbles something frustrated, dumps water on his face -

- remembers Van's bag of magic items, hauls himself to his feet and dumps water on that -

- Van and Yfandes are honestly in much worse shape than he would expect - well, Van has that frail build -

- channels energy again -

Yfandes is feeling a lot better now, she's still in pain but that she can ignore. :Gods. Where are we: 

Vanyel is still unresponsive. 

He can channel energy one more time for Yfandes but that's probably not the problem with Vanyel. He does it anyway while he fumbles around for his packet of diamond dust so he can cast Restoration on Van.

Yfandes gets to her feet enough to shift closer to her Chosen, nosing at his face. :Goddamnit. I cannot believe that Vkandis just set us on fire. Extremely rude of Him: 

:Is that a known thing he does? You need to tell your cleric that kind of thing, I could have done Protection from Energy!:

He finishes casting Restoration. 

:I've heard legends about it, I guess? I was absolutely not expecting him to set some visitors from an ALLIED country on fire! Sorry: 

Vanyel moans, tries to open his eyes. He's too hot, and he feels pretty awful, though the reaction-headache isn't as bad as he might have expected given the last thing he remembers. 

:...Where are we?: he manages after a few seconds. 

:In the middle of the desert! In Golarion somewhere, probably Osirion or Katapesh or Thuvia. We are stuck here until you can Gate or dawn tomorrow when I can prepare Word of Recall - clerics of Abadar get it early.: 

He can conjure up a lot of water to dump on them and their surroundings. It helps somewhat with the heat.

Vanyel licks his lips. "Don't - think - I can Gate yet. Tired. ...What happened?" 

:Vkandis set us on fire: Yfandes explains helpfully. 

"I figured that much. Why? Seems - excessive." 

Silent horse-shrug. 

"Excessive and insufficient at the same time! There are virtually no people capable of casting Plane Shift who you can kill by setting them on that amount of fire! I guess maybe He didn't know that. 

I am concerned we caused problems for Abadar's negotiations with the Velgarth gods. But at least we can tell Valdemar we took every available measure to get you home as quickly as possible."

:Ugh. If they believe us. It sounds so implausible. I guess they do know the part about Heralds not being allowed: Yfandes nuzzles at Vanyel's shoulder. :Can we do anything to get Van more comfortable here so he can recover from backlash faster?: 

"Lemme check how badly those healing bandages are damaged." He checks. They are, unsurprisingly, quite damaged. "I can repair this in the morning but it won't do him any good right now. Create Water is really cut-rate climate control...I know some people do it in the air as a rainstorm..." He frowns and tries this near but not directly above them. It makes an incredibly vigorous rainstorm, the air too dense with water to breathe. The water leaves little craters in the sand. "I think that's worse. Hmmm. What is the range on your Mindspeech, we could ask Leareth to come rescue us."

:Don't make Van Mindspeak right now, but I can probably push mine to three hundred miles if I'm really trying. Want me to have a go?:  

"Is it detectable? We don't want to mess with their undercover operations if they're already in Azir - and they might be, by now, we spent a while shopping."

:It's potentially detectable in Velgarth using our kind of magic. Especially at long range if I have to, er, cheat and boost with nodes - Companions don't go around telling people we can do that, but we can in a real emergency and I think this counts: 

"Hmmm." He is trying to use Create Water to do a fine mist; he can't quite keep it that way. "Probably we should only call them out of their important undercover mission to rescue us if anything scary-looking approaches; a fight right now would be genuinely bad news. But if nothing happens we can get back under our own power and that means they don't have to run any risk of discovery."

:Makes sense: She's trying to offer Vanyel a slightly shaded position right up against her. :Van's going to take a nap and hopefully recover enough to Gate: 

"Sounds good." He can lean on Yfandes' other side and dump water continuously on both of them, and Channel Energy away the sunburns every hour or so, until Van is ready.

Having water continuously dumped on him is not the most restful napping conditions, but Vanyel is drained enough to fall asleep anyway. He still has a headache when he wakes up, but thinks he can manage a Gate - it'll make his backlash much worse again, pushing through it now, but it seems more important that they get out of here and maybe there will be more people with healing spells once they make it to the palace?