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."
:I'm making more Healers. Savil's going to gate north to help out our people there and make sure the monkeys are fed and such. Everything's stable. How're you feeling?:
:You know what, I'm hungry too, I'll get dinner for both of us and bring it to you: Where are they staging food service here -
It'll do. She gets some for her and some for Leareth. "Should be easy to swallow."
:I love you too. Congratulations on evicting an arsonist god from Valdemar:
:I am rather pleased about that part. It is probably even worth being horribly injured: He glances down at himself without moving his head too much. :Am I going to have gruesome scars, do you think?:
:I mean, maybe if I am kept very busy, but not indefinitely. If I can stick wings on a monkey I can probably figure out how to smooth you out:
:You are amazing and I love you. Maybe you can leave one gruesome scar, as a souvenir of our victory here: Pause. :I want to kiss you but if I move it will hurt, can you come here...?:
Yes, she can lean over and give him a kiss and try to pick out his most dashing-looking scar to keep while she Heals him.
A few minutes later, there's a voice at the opening of the tent. "Hey - is now a good time to visit...?"
Vanyel comes into the tent. He's limping a bit and his forearms are also bandaged, but he looks otherwise all right. "Leareth. Feeling better? I heard you had a really rough few days."
Leareth inclines his head in a very slight nod. "I am feeling much better, thank you."
"...Is it true that you got serious burns on most of your body from the fire and then kept directing the ritual for another few candlemarks?"
Leareth frowns. "I am honestly not sure! I was in trance and had taken quite a lot of stimulants and I do not really remember anything except the spell formula I was directing."
"Um. Impressive and somewhat concerning?" Vanyel looks around for somewhere to sit, spots a stool. Sits. "Anyway, congratulations. And - we should talk about the current state of this kingdom. Belrun, are you up for that?"
"Um, so. Where to even start... I guess, first thing, you're now safe to be in Haven, right? Which means we could, in theory, get right on doing the transition of power from Randi to you. Unfortunately, there is...at best half of a Haven right now. And also we just evacuated the entire Council and all the minor lords without any warning and barely with any explanation, and then most of them lost their houses and all their belongings, so they're...not very pleased right now. And I guess we need to figure out how to approach that."
"That makes sense and also sounds very complicated." Sigh. "Belrun, any ideas?"
"Well, we could announce to our less god-infested neighbors that I can put Gifts in people and auction it off, raise some cash for compensation and rebuilding. Or, I suppose, if any of the people who need compensation want their own Gifts I could also do that."