Melody opens her shields and shares her Sight. 

Via her metaphor, it's much more visible how the damaged connections around the family-and-Vanyel reactions are, not just torn, but shredded - some thread-ends even look charred - it's not at all clear how most of it could be put back together. A few trailing links are less thoroughly destroyed, though, and possibly still strong enough to withstand being woven in elsewhere. 

The other, less legible area of particular damage was, in Melody's Sight, not so much ripped or broken as unravelled - and then partially re-ravelled into a new pattern, this one linking directly to the primal-anger at multiple points. 

With the metaphors superimposed are there any obvious repairs that can be made - reweaving, screwing gears back into place -

Well, she could try to re-weave / re-screw the few remaining fragments in the personal-loyalty area that aren't too destroyed; it won't be much but at least it might be a pathway running through something other than anger. 

The other region looks a lot more intractable to put back the way it used to be, since there are so many new points of contact established elsewhere, but she could maybe try to link up the repairs in the shredded area to this part too, just to give his mind more possible directions to go. 

She lobs these ideas wordlessly at Melody.

:Hmm. Both at once is a lot to subject him to in one go. I'd be comfortable having you try the first thing - my guess is that this would correspond to helping him focus more on who and what he still has, rather than who he lost - and we'll see how that goes, and reconsider the second thing tomorrow?: 

:Yeah. Do you want to ask him?:

:Yes, all right: 

She does this out loud again; Brightstar is shielding and blocking Mindspeech, though their Mindhealing Sight can still get through. 

:...He says you can try it if you want but he doesn't think it will help: she relays eventually, wearily. 

:Well, I guess that's consent. Ready?:

And they can try to piece it together ever so gently.

His mind is VERY fragile, she has to go quite slowly and cautiously to avoid damaging it worse, and Brightstar spends pretty much the entire time sobbing. But they get it done. 

:Aaaaaand I think we'd better call it a day: Melody is looking somewhat worried. :I'll check in on him later this afternoon, make sure he's handling it all right: 

:Yeah, agreed. Keep me posted?:

:Of course. I'm guessing you've got other things to do, but I'll Mindspeak you later if I have any other patients I might want you to see, if that's all right? Er, less complicated patients than him:

She sighs, and says some more things to Brightstar, which he fails to acknowledge in any way. 

:Sure:

And she heads back to her room.

The rest of her morning and early afternoon are taken up with mage-work; Sandra visits again and asks for her help on a different section of building, and Kilchas delegates more weather-work to her. They're both clearly stressed and harried, but friendly enough with her, and clearly grateful to have her help. 

Midway through the afternoon, Melody Mindtouches her. :Got a moment?: 

:Yes:

:Update on Brightstar. On the one hand, er, he seems a little better - like more of him is there? On the other hand, he's apparently been crying for candlemarks, and he told me he doesn't want to see you again. I'm hoping he changes his mind once he's had some time to settle down, but...well, we'll see:

:That's understandable:

:I wanted to say again that I deeply appreciate your help with him, and I'm curious if you've had any more ideas shake loose over the morning? I just– I don't know what to do for him, and I hate it: 

:I haven't thought of anything new, no:

A heavy mental sigh. :No worries. Um, I do have a couple of very straightforward patients who I could put on our schedule tomorrow if you're willing to come in after breakfast, but it's up to you: 

:I can come in after breakfast:

:Thank you! It's so good to have a bit of extra help: 

After breakfast Aza shows up at Healer's to be introduced to straightforward patients.

The next few days start to fall into a routine. She does mage-work with the Heralds, and sees a few patients for Melody, who also takes advantage of her presence to invite her over for lunch and talk through some carefully anonymized patient scenarios with her, asking what she would do or what she thinks Lionwind would recommend. 

Dara arranges language lessons for her. The first is with a young woman, Herald Siri, but all of the Heralds are very swamped, and Dara signs off on delegating it to a young man who works as a clerk for them; he's not a Mindspeaker, but Azabel can Mindspeak anyone, so it ought to work out.