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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 flies him to Haven, drawing up a plan for antiparasitics deployment on the way down.

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Rohan huddles up in the corner of the shuttle and is awkwardly silent the whole way down. 

As soon as he's back in Mindspeech range of the (non-Taver) members of the herd, though, he's reaching out. 

 

- and shortly later he's in contact with Yfandes and Kellan, by now a few miles south of the outer walls around Haven. 

:- Cam?: 

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"Uh, yes?"

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:Can you put me down, er, over...here...?: He sends a mental image. 

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"Here?" Cam pans the camera till it matches approximately.

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:Yes, thank you: 

Once the shuttle lands, Rohan dismounts as fast as he can. 

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Kellan and Yfandes both look over.

Kellan looks at Yfandes.

 

 

Goddamnit. 

:Cam?: she sends. :What’s happening: 

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"...uh, I'm dropping Rohan off? I'm going to go get Kilchas next."

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:- You know what I mean. If you're not willing to tell me what's happening with the Heralds, can you cut out the bullshit and just say that?: 

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"I don't know what's happening with the Heralds! I've been in Hell for a while and people were not writing to me as much as they could be! The only Herald I heard from was Van and presumably unless I have mistaken you for someone else you'd know whatever he does."

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:....No, you haven't mistaken me for someone else: 

This is so painfully awkward to say.

:- but I - I don't know what... Is he all right?: 

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"...did someone attack him again, should I nip over to Healers' before I go get Kilchas down -"

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:- I, I - haven't heard he was attacked in particular, but I...would appreciate...if you could check on him. If you don't mind: 

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"Aren't you... telepathic. Is he out of range -" Little model Van. "He looks, uh, convalescent?"

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:Thank you: 

Yfandes turns her head away and doesn't say anything else. 

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"You're, uh, welcome. I'm going to go get Kilchas." He gets back in his shuttle and rises into the sky again.

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Yfandes and Kellan converge on Rohan. 

 

 

Yfandes nudges her muzzle against his neck. :Are you all right?: 

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:....I mean. No: 

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:Is Kilchas–: 

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Rohan interrupts before she can even finish the name. 

:Please don't. Just. Please: 

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:- Right:

 

:I - I'm sorry: 

 

And the three of them go on pacing by the riverside, not speaking. 

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Kilchas is waiting when Cam arrives back at the space station. "Everything go all right?" 

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"I'm really confused about what the heck is up with the Companions. Yfandes seemed confused about something up with Heralds but I don't know what's up with Heralds at the moment, do you?"

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"Not really! Van sent me some baffling messages but I know he's also on a lot of drugs still. ....Oh. Rohan's been blocking me out entirely ever since we started trying to talk about, er. About gods. And - probably that came up in Haven too. So - I guess maybe Yfandes wouldn't know what's happening down there. Is Van all right?" 

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"Convalescent. I don't have any new messages from him. I might stop in and see him after we land but I didn't want to leave you up here." Down they go.

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