"You could say that! Somebody was not doing a good job of monitoring their reserves while in trance, and passed out from channeling too much energy, and then the rest of us had to work very fast to pick up the spellcasting they had been literally in the middle of. It could have gone worse, though, we had protocols for this kind of event and we were able to respond quickly enough."

"Huh, is there a good way to check reserves from the outside?"

"Healers can, and we had somebody observing, but we think the threshold of power-drain at which someone will pass out is person-dependent and maybe variable even with a single individual, since the Healer did not call an alarm before it happened. I have told them to make the threshold for pulling someone out lower for that particular mage, in future." 

"Makes sense. And because you are yourself you had plenty of backup plans for in case anything happened."

"Well, of course. It was still more stressful than I preferred, but, now I can have snuggles about it." 

"Yes you can. How long till we get to the part where you try talking to it?"

"Day after tomorrow. ...Or the day after that, if I decide I need more recovery time, it will be stable and that element is less time-sensitive." 

"Is that a you-only privilege?"

"I am going to do it first, since one of the things I am checking for is - a very small but nonzero chance that something went wrong in a way that could be mentally damaging for anyone Mindspeaking it, and I am best able to check for that first without putting myself at risk in the process. After that, you and others are very welcome to speak with it, although it will still be a very small baby god that is strange to talk to." 

"Yeah, I'm curious how it'll be strange and want to record it for posterity."

"Of course." 

"What are you going to ask it when it's a strange baby?"

"Some very abstract checksum-type tests that are going to be impossible to explain to you. And then I will probably just talk to it a while more freeform. I do not know what that will be like, actually." 

"You should write down your conversation too."

"Of course, I plan to." 

"Good." Smooch.

Now seems like an excellent moment to switch over to the smooching hobby as a pastime. 

And Belrun will wait only somewhat impatiently for her chance to talk to the baby god.

The final day of work is calm calm calm calm satisfaction so tired, and Leareth makes his way back half a candlemark early from the expected finish time, it went really smoothly, and he'll do the preliminary checks tomorrow and then she can talk to the god. 

Leareth is too tired for much talking or kissing, tonight, but snuggles are so welcomed. 

She can snuggle him quietly.

And the next day, Leareth hugs Belrun before slipping into the shielded Work Room area where they're keeping the physical focus for the tiny baby god. (At the next stage it will become a much larger, different kind of being, without a physical locus in the material plane, but for now it's a lot more like a Heartstone than a full-sized god.) 

And there it is. :?: it floats out towards him, it's not words but it's definitely a question. 

:Leareth: Again, it isn't exactly his name, not really, but he's identifying himself to the godlet. 

:!!: 

:Yes. We made you, and now I need to look at you:

And he spends a while doing that, referring to his notes sometimes. Everything is as expected. 

About a candlemark later he opens the door. :Belrun, you can come in and meet the baby god now, if you like: