When Vanyel is ready for the mad science tour, he shows him the monkeys. "They're monkeys," she feels it necessary to clarify. "I know they look very human at this point, because the whole point of them is that I'm going to move into one if I ever die, but they're not people, and I have forbidden the staff to name them. I could move into one now if I had to but I'd like to get one actually looking like me in particular first, and I want to stick more Gifts into them, I got Fetching out of some Changesquirrels but further work is needed." She shows him the mice, too. "Do you suppose Jisa'd like a winged mouse? What's her favorite color?" She shows him all her microbiology eggs. "That's a flu sample from the recent plague! I remembered to take one. Those there are other flus. The white eggs have more-alive microbes and the brown eggs have less-alive kinds - there's a cold one of the staff mages had a few months ago, there's food poisoning, there's the most common kind from healthy intestines - you could get your Sight this fine, you know, I don't do heavy Healing-Gift use apart from Sight for this work."
:Hrrm. Probably still better to move? Randomizing it seems like a good idea. Or I guess we could wait and see if the alarms pick something up, but - it feels risky, in case they drop on top of us by surprise somehow, and we know Leareth and the other mages won't be back and in fighting shape for at least a day:
:Yeah. I'll let the mage know:
:We should move,: she tells him. :I'm going to randomize time and also flip a coin to pick a location as soon as the time randomization says go, okay? Please update the people in Haven accordingly, I assume you have some protocol to avoid interrupting at a bad moment:
"We could wait till an alarm goes off but that loses us the randomization of time. Presumably if Leareth were interruptible at this moment you would have heard about that when you commed in?"
"Right. So, we could wait till there's an alarm but Amshalan thinks it's before tomorrow morning, which could be, say, the middle of the night, I don't think it'd be better to wake you up at a candlemark past midnight and need a Gate instantly."
"Foresight twigged to one and we didn't wait for an alarm. It would be cool if it were nothing but it could be a gryphon army so we bailed. Can you show us to rooms and the dining hall and such?"
Well, there's only the four of them, albeit one a magic horse, and they can share if that's expedient. Belrun would just as soon be near Dara and Amshalan both anyway. She gets some lunch.
Amshalan hangs out in the dining hall with her; it's spacious enough that she can move around comfortably.
:No, thank you, I ate recently. Some grain for tonight and some sort of trough I can actually drink out of would be appreciated though:
"Just - wish we could skip the the part where we're not sitting here being stressed. Really hope it was the right call coming here."
"Yeah, me too. You want to, I don't know, play cards or something, take our minds off it - I can't concentrate on a book or anything at the moment -"