Leareth watches. "Keep going - a little more..." 

"...All right, that is probably enough. If it has not worked by now it is not going to." 

Vanyel releases it with a sigh of relief and rubs his forehead. "Gods. That's tiring." 

Leareth uses a carefully controlled reverse-weather-barrier to cool their result so he can go examine it. 

"Good work, Vanyel. It is a funny shaped diamond but I think it is one. I suppose we ought have someone who specializes in - rocks, and such, examine it for us and make sure it is in fact diamond and of the desired quality."

"Um." Vanyel glances hopefully at the cleric. "- Also can you cast Lesser Restoration, if you don't mind." 

The cleric steps forward to cast Lesser Restoration and take a look. Creates a magic light to shine behind it, scrapes it with a knife, squints at it. "The only way to check whether it works as a focus is to try it, probably, but it certainly looks and feels right."

"It seems silly to use it for a major spell just as a test, but also we ought test the process before having you make many more, since it is so exhausting. Vanyel, maybe you could try making one of the much smaller ones? If it works at a larger scale it ought still work smaller." 

"For Restoration I'd use one like this," the cleric offers, fishing out a very tiny diamond.

Leareth gauges the size of their first diamond compared to the amount of coal and black carbon he carted in, and measures out a smaller amount. 

Freshly full of energy again, Vanyel casts the spell again and smooshes the smaller pile. This at least takes less total energy although a similar length of time, about five minutes. 

Leareth cools it, retrieves and examines it, and offers it to the cleric. 

And the cleric can try to Restoration Vanyel.

It works. 

"Amazing!"

"Good work." 

"You invented the spell. And came up with the idea." Vanyel is smiling too though. He bounces on his heels. "I have lots of energy now. I can try it again - maybe I can go all evening with Lesser Restoration..." 

"You cannot. Unfortunately there is some component of magical reserves that it does not help with, I discovered this earlier." He looks thoughtful for a moment. "I still need to test if my cleric spell addresses it, though - if I power-share with you, I ought to become drained enough for the difference to be noticeable, and it may be a little easier for you." 

"Sure!" Vanyel throws out a Mindspeech link to Leareth, slipping into rapport - amazing how casual he feels about doing that, just a month ago he couldn't have imagined trusting Leareth this much. 

They smoosh another diamond. It is easier in a sense, but he's also starting to feel a sort of hollowness that isn't quite fatigue but does make it more effortful. 

The cleric can cast Lesser Restoration again.

Vanyel closes his eyes, checking how he feels. The physical tiredness and slight unsteadiness on his feet are gone, but some part of him still feels drained. "I don't think I can do another one. Er, not a big one, I could do intermediate-sized." 

"Honestly I think you are better off stopping before you hit complete exhaustion. If you feel recovered later tonight you can try again. Besides, I wanted to discuss some things." 

"Oh. Um, sure, we could go to your room." Vanyel politely thanks the cleric for helping them while Leareth collects the two large diamonds. 

The cleric is delighted to have helped.

Leareth mulls on making the spell more efficient while they walk. He won't be able to do it in two days, but after the war...

Oh also he should ask. :Yfandes?: 

She's amusing herself by the beach, where there's actually room for her to move around. :Leareth?: 

:Vanyel can make True Resurrection-grade diamonds: 

:Oh: Pause. :Imagine he could make quite a lot of gold that way, but I suppose the war comes first: 

:Yes, I think his earning potential is not one of our top worries. Anyway. I - wished to propose...: And he describes his idea, briefly and neutrally.