...Vanyel isn't sure he wants random palace servants knowing all about his problems. Then again, he's never met them and it doesn't really matter at this point. "Whatever you want." 

"That answer does not exactly convince me that you are all right with this, but." He's not sure it's reasonable to expect anything better, right now. "Is there anything specific that would help, right now." 

Vanyel considers it. Tries to. "If they have drugs to make me sleep. Er. Better ones than heroin." 

"We can ask. Is it all right if I try to find out whether they have something equivalent to Mindhealers here?" 

"Sure." Vanyel doesn't really sound like he's paying attention, at this point. 

It really isn't his comparative advantage, being reassuring. "I will do my best," Leareth says, and stands up. :Mahdi, can you keep sitting with him or do you need to switch off with someone: 

I can stay a while longer. 

Then Leareth will leave Vanyel with Mahdi watching him, and go catch up the others. "I have Vanyel's permission to ask the clerics here if they can do anything to help. Mostly he wants something to help him sleep - I am not sure if there is magic for it that would be better than drugs, but hopefully they will have drugs that are a better idea than giving him heroin, anyway." 

"Sleep doesn't work on people with a lot of magical ability and even Deep Slumber stops working at sixth circle, the magic burns it off, and I would put Vanyel at seventh. We can ask if they have drugs?"

"I bet you could do something with a Wish though I don't know if it'd be something he would want? I don't have a good understanding of what the problem is exactly. - possibly we could Wish Yfandes was not being controlled by any gods?"

"Would your brother -"

"I mean it's the same diamond we're sourcing anyway, we'd really just be asking him to front it for a couple of days."

"I imagine it would require explaining more to him, unless 25,000 gold is cheap enough for him that he can front it for us on a whim. I think - hmm. I am not actually sure how Companions work, but I think Yfandes is not being directly controlled by a god at this time, and simply has - some sort of built-in structure, related to the purpose Companions serve in Valdemar. I am not sure we would want to remove all of that structure, since I assume part of it is what supports the bond with Vanyel, but - did it look to you like she was in conflict with herself? If the structure has multiple parts, and one part is loyal to Vanyel but another is against fighting gods..." 

" - kind of. Maybe."

"It might be safe - or at least worth risking - to go back and ask her. We ought to check that she is all right in any case, at some point. Though I think a first priority is helping Vanyel get some sleep. And possibly some healing spells would help cancel out the sleep deprivation he has been accumulating." 

He rings the bell to summon one of the servants. 

Servant appears promptly. 

"We would like to have one of your clerics see if they can help Vanyel. He is not physically hurt, but he is in serious emotional distress due to - it is hard to explain." He glances at Fazil and Hagan to see if they have any quick cultural translation of it. 

"Uh, he had a magical soul bond with his boyfriend who is dead, and he had another magical soul bond with his - paladin mount? And she's - blocking him out of the magical soul bond."

"I assume someone has already suggested raising the boyfriend?"

"There's a different afterlife situation involved complicating matters but the pharaoh said there's an eighth-circle spell to directly track a soul which he will try tomorrow and if the results are promising then we will raise him."

"Are we figuring that even if magic soul bonds are vulnerable to a sufficiently heightened Break Enchantment getting rid of them is not desirable -"

"If we can't raise the dead boyfriend maybe he will want to not be soulbonded to him? But I don't think he or Yfandes want to not be bonded at all. He just needs to be able to sleep and rest and recover. And we think he's too powerful for sleep spells."

"I don't know a spell, then. We do have some drugs he can try if he'd like. Most of them will make it hard to do much of anything and the ones that do let you act normally you pay for afterwards."

"We're not counting on it for a long-term solution."

"I can have someone bring things up and explain dosing."