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that looks like a pretty intractable problem you've got there have you tried throwing more leareths at it
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Vanyel watches too, though his Healing-Sight isn't nearly as well trained as Shavri's; he can use mage-sight as well, though, he's curious about the spell-structure itself. 

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He touches him, and pinches a very small diamond in the other hand, and then she can see energy flowing into Randi and Van can see the whole fourth-circle spell structure directing it. The diamond crumbles.

The energy flows for about twenty seconds, then stops.

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Randi sits up straighter, looking amazed.

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Shavri watches intently for a little while longer, and then turns and beams at Fazil. "That definitely did something! It was very marked. He's - I should take longer to look properly, after - I don't think it's gone, whatever's causing it, I think you were right, but if I didn't know exactly what to look for I'd call him totally healthy. Randi, love, how do you feel?"  

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"I did not realize until now that I've been tired all the time for the entire last year." Randi leans back in his chair. "I don't know how long it'll last but I feel great." 

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"Thank you!" Shavri looks relieved and giddy and also like some small part of her maybe wants to pin Fazil to a board and study him like an insect. 

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Vanyel is relieved and happy as well, but more quietly. 

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He is also super relieved and happy! He can maybe offer to do more healing which Shavri can watch later. "I'm glad I could help a little," he says, and leaves off the 'your majesty'.

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The Heralds glance around at each other. 

"This seems like a reasonable time to take a break," Randi says (even though he currently feels like he could keep going all afternoon, the lack of background inexplicable fatigue is amazing.)

"Later today, though, I think we ought to discuss whether there's anything Valdemar can do to help your world." Sigh. "I am not generally in favour of wars, especially wars of conquest, but - I just learned about the existence of your Hell and it is horrible and I think all of us Heralds would very badly like to - do whatever we can, here." 

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"Good for you. I will - think about that, and maybe have some ideas I can suggest when we reconvene."

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Savil slides her chair back and stands. "Van, ke'chara, you and Fazil are welcome to join me for lunch if you'd like...?" 

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"Thank you, but I think I'm going to take a nap or something." :Not sure if I literally need a nap: he tells Fazil, :but - it was really stressful, earlier, even if it went totally fine. I can catch you up on it if you want?: 

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Vanyel walks back with him to the guest wing - wondering privately if it makes sense for him to stay there or if he should go back to his room, but he doesn't really expect them to be in Haven that much longer - and he explains Randi's reaction to the Yfandes issue in Mindspeech. :'Fandes was right, I think, it's sufficiently not the weirdest or most concerning thing he's learned about recently that he couldn't be bothered being upset with me over it: 

Aaaaand he should probably explain the blood-magic incident, too, which Yfandes thinks he also got off on very lightly due to everyone having bigger fish to fry. So he does. Along with a little of the background on his conversations with Leareth and previous soul-searching on whether using blood-magic could ever be justifiable. 

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: - wow. We don't ...have anyone who can do that. I think it might be bad if it were advertised that it's possible, lest it's also possible with our magic and not widely known...:

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:Mmm-hmm. I'm guessing that Leareth didn't mention it and that's probably part of why: 

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:He did not mention it. Which, yes, seems very sensible, though he also may have been trying to give us less reminders about what he's done. Probably if it could be done at all with our magic Evil would have advertised how but not necessarily.... for what it's worth I'd expect it to not be Evil, or not very, in the circumstances you described. Kick you right out of Law, though."

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:Are all the other Heralds Lawful? Yfandes wondered if I was right up until that. Though - in hindsight something like that had been brewing for a while, she thinks: 

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Almost all of them. All the other Companions are. You - reason about the world more like neutral good. But it's possible that you were Lawful, before that; I would think being part of something like the Heralds is a strong push towards Law even if it's not exactly the same thing.

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Vanyel nods. :And - I reasoned like this less before, I think. I got a lot of it from Leareth: 

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:Who is himself Lawful! But I guess distinctly not using the Heralds' system, and probably with a long list of objections to it.:

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:And I'm not sure I can do the thing he does. I'm - not careful enough. Possibly I'm just not smart enough. And Yfandes thinks it might be important, here, that he's millennia old. He's had a lot of time to develop his personal code and flesh it out for all contingencies, right? Whereas I keep - ending up in situation where I really should have thought through what decision process I'd use, and I didn't because it never felt like there was time. Sunhame...isn't the first time that happened and I was unhappy with what Heraldic ethics said to do. It's just the first time I acted on that: 

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Nod. Adventuring is bad for Law for the same reason. The world is complicated, it can be really hard to - figure out how the rules even apply, let alone whether you really believe in them.

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:Yfandes keeps complaining about that. The world being complicated, I mean, and it not being clear how any given standard would even apply. I - guess she always really believed in our rules, before this, she was made that way. It's pretty confusing for her to have that suddenly stop being true: 

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:...yeah. I can imagine.:

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