"Glad to hear it. Haven is really coming along, I think, it looks much more like a city now." 

"You're making sound like last month it was a quaint hamlet, as opposed to having also been a city then."

"It was a city last month, fair. Two weeks ago it was not a city. There is not really a good word for 'was a city, but now half of it by surface area is burned to the ground'." 

She snorts. "Are you going to come to Petras with me in a few days?"

"As long as we do not do any public parades, yes, I would like that." 

"No parades, just me bopping around selling Gifts."

"Perfect." 

Then in a few days she'll go do that and see what prices she can command with a week's lead time in not-at-all-burned Petras.

Mage-gift is the most popular request by far, here, and the price has been bidded very high over the last week, ten times as much as what it went for back in Haven. 

She screens them - she has to explain the Truth Spell, since it's a Herald thing - and dishes it out.

She doesn't even need Leareth's help anymore, since she has mage-sight now, but he hangs around anyway so he can watch and be smug about his lifebonded and soon-to-be-wife. In a day's work, she can rake in enough money to pay for rebuilding an entire neighbourhood in Haven. 

She tells people who couldn't squeeze in that she'll be back again in a week, and they can go home and disburse the money according to the budget she's thrown together in recent weeks.

Tran is so impressed with her haul! 

So is Dara, although she doesn't seem surprised at all. 

Belrun's pleased with herself too. "I've been using my status as the only person who can do this for the time being," she tells Leareth later, "but I don't think you will meaningfully drive the price down if you can do it too, do you want Healing?"

"Having Healing seems like a good idea for multiple reasons, so, yes." 

She puts it in place. "There. You can sit with me when I'm doing it and pick it up that way."

Great! Leareth will also trade more general Healing-lessons for mage-lessons, though Belrun doesn't have any experience with battlefield Healing of injuries so he hassles other Valdemaran Healers for that. 

It's fun to be teaching each other even if she doesn't know everything he wants to learn.

The remaining weeks before the wedding and coronation pass, not uneventfully - they're very busy - but without much in the way of surprises. More of the Companions go to the Shadowgod avatar for jailbreaking. Dara seems to be getting on well enough with Rolan. 

Shavri helpfully offers Healing lessons to Leareth, and counts down the days until her lifebonded will no longer be King and their lives will belong to themselves again. 

Hey, if the Shadowgod signs off on it Foresight-wise, Belrun's okay to give Randi Healing (Sondra too, why not) a bit earlier than planned, her track record is really encouraging.

Leareth has a conversation with the Shadowgod planned, so he might as well ask that too. ...And he gets a reasonably clear answer that it seems fine, unlike his other questions, where he got frustrating non-answers. 

Then Belrun'll go ahead and surround poor Randi with more Healing in case that helps.

Randi confirms the next day that he's feeling a bit less tired than usual today, so there's that! Also Sondra having Healing is great, because with the new Palace renovations they sleep in the same room, and Sondra needs less sleep and can Heal him very slowly and gently during part of the night.