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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."
Pause, the distance sense of a web of threads shifting. Vkandis may be, but only because He is already allied with the Star-Eyed Goddess and They are both reacting against Her recent loss of territory. Kernos and the others will not object.
:Okay. I'm not going to do it soon en masse, anyway, I need more Healers trained to modify monkeys. I might want Tylendel back for Vanyel soon though, him you definitely have, right, he was a Herald:
:Is he a Companion already and you didn't think to mention it when I asked if he was going to be in the future?:
:That has been relevant information for this entire conversation and also, I suspect, for much of your conversation with Vanyel:
It was not clear in Foresight that the results would be better ones, if I were to say something. It was eventually clear that the results would be worse ones if I ignored your direct question.
:Can you give me more detail on what those results would have been at all?:
It is more closely focused on Vanyel, his wellbeing and his relationship-to-be with Stefen. I cannot really tell you in more detail.
:Is something going to go wrong if I tell Vanyel? I'm going to by default, but...:
I cannot tell you what specifically will happen. I think there are harms it could cause but it is not clear enough to translate to human concepts.
:I will... try to be careful with that, I guess. Is there anything else potentially relevant about the Tylendel/Stef/etcetera situation - I'd wanted to ask if Stef was led to Haven by god-engineering or just genuine chance -:
Sense of shuffling, looking backward. There was a nudge, but only a very small one was required, it could easily have occurred by chance.
That is a nontrivial question to answer. I did, but other Powers including the Star-Eyed Goddess might have done so if I had not. I am not sure what They intended of it.
Being a god sounds so confusing. No wonder they start committing sabotage and murder whenever someone threatens to make it more confusing. :Okay. Is there anything else I should know - or will later consider to have been an objectionable omission, if that's easier to think about -:
I do not find either of those questions straightforward to translate back. I do not think there is anything else relevant to this overall conversation that I could tell you now.
:Okay. Thanks for letting me know about Stef, uh, eventually:
:Amshalan can you, uh, tell Yfandes that Stef is Tylendel's reincarnation so I can delegate breaking that to Van?:
