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the gods of velgarth are NOT prepared for demon cam
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Jisa is so excited! Today is the BEST day! Her Uncle Van is home! He was fighting enemies on the Border, which is very exciting and cool, but it's even better to have him here where he can play with her. 

Yesterday he promised to go riding with her today, but then this morning he said he was too tired and could they maybe have tea in his room instead. And then he fell asleep. This is fine, though, because it means Jisa can SURPRISE him with the fact that she's a BIG GIRL now and knows how to read and write and lots of other things. 

She has some chalk and she's been drawing wards on his floor. She knows some designs, now, from bothering Sandra in her workshop when she's bored and Mama is too busy to talk to her, and she can pretend to be a real mage doing real magic. Uncle Van says she isn't going to be a mage even though she has potential, which Jisa thinks is deeply unfair, and she sort of hopes that if she just practices very hard then he'll be wrong and she will be a mage after all. Mindspeech is neat and apparently she's going to be a Mindhealer too, which is apparently rare and important although she doesn't really know what a Mindhealer does. But being a mage is the MOST cool. 

She sits on her Uncle Van's floor and draws big circles and little circles and decorates them and sings to herself under her breath. 

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...Cam makes a fireblanket, wraps Jisa in it. "Vkandis sometimes sets people on fire," he says, "so stay wrapped up in this, okay, and -" Buckets of water. "There's those, and - I should go see what's going on -"

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Jisa tries to wrap her arms around him again. "Please don't go please don't I'm scared!" Her voice rises to a wail. 

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"I - Jisa, if she's still running around she could hurt someone else."

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Jisa starts to protest, then clamps her mouth shut and takes a few shuddering breaths. "...All right. But come right back?" 

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"Yeah. I'll come right back as soon as things are under control. Thank you very much for summoning me back." He's going to... leave random copies of the summoning instruction packet in every room he passes on the way to finding Vanyel's room.

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As soon as he turns the corner, Savil, who's standing just outside Vanyel's room with her arms folded and glaring at a whimpering Karis as she pins the woman down with a mage-barrier, spins around. One hand is already raised, a levinbolt at her fingertips and ready to throw. 

"- Cam!" She slowly lowers her arm. "Cam, what - how...?" 

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Shavri's tense voices calls from inside Vanyel's room. "Cam's here? Cam I could use a hand in here!" 

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Cam appears restraints around Karis's wrists and ankles on his way into the room. "He's alive?"

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Karis doesn't move or resist this at all. 

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"Barely - came really close to losing him - he's still bleeding - can you do anything to help...?" 

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"Yeah." Cam produces a mysterious machine, peers at the images in it, leans over Van, and starts patching damaged layers of tissue and replacing the amount of blood lost in a gradual and distributed fashion.

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At any other time, Shavri would be so awed and impressed by what he's doing. Right now she's too busy frantically throwing Healing-energy at Vanyel. 

By the time two other Healers reach the room, Shavri and Cam's combined efforts mostly have the bleeding stopped. 

"He's not breathing that well," Shavri hisses to Cam, "is that something you can help with?" 

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"- maybe." What is wrong with him that patching the lung didn't fix.

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There's a lot of blood pooling in the space between the membranes around the lung; it's not actively bleeding anymore, but the lung on that side is still half-collapsed. Shavri is trying to nudge him to breathe faster and deeper to make up for it, but Vanyel is deeply unconscious and in shock, and his body isn't responding as much as it should. 

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Getting and negotiating with an angel would take too long. Cam tubes the lung to drain, cannulas Vanyel to give him a steady supply of oxygen.

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"Good...that's helping...think we've almost got him stable enough to move to the House of Healing - Cam, how strong are you, can you help us carry him?" 

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"I'm not steady enough, I trip."

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"Right." Her eyes go unfocused for a moment. "I called some more people from the House of Healing, they'll be here in a couple minutes. Anyway, Cam - thank you. I don't know if he'd have made it without your help. ...How did you know to get over here? I don't think any of us thought to write you - were you, er, watching us from your shuttle...?" 

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"No. When he was momentarily dead that unsummoned me and Jisa resummoned me."

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"Jisa did? Where is she– wait, no, how did she know you were un-summoned?" 

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"She'd called me on the phone I left Vanyel. She might have been in the room at the time." Does Cam's machine think Vanyel needs any drugs.

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"Oh gods." Shavri blanches. "Is she all right - where is she now, did you make sure she was safe, is she hurt -?" 

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Vanyel could probably use some antibiotics to ward off infection. He's still not conscious, but he's showing flickers of it, and when he does start to wake up he's going to be in a lot of pain. 

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"She's down the hall. I left her a fire blanket and some buckets of water in case Vkandis pulls shit but I did say I'd go back when things were under control, she was pretty freaked out." Cam gives Vanyel some painkillers and antibiotics and an oxygen booster and heads back Jisaward.

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Shavri shoots a longing look after Cam - she desperately wants to go to her daughter - but, right now, Vanyel needs her more. 

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