"I mean, being set on fire didn't do me much harm but I am pretty nervous that something was in fact foreseen that means I need to watch out, yeah."

Nod. "I - don't understand what it could be, though. You're not stupid, it's not like you're going to just - go ahead and do things without considering whether it's a good idea first. I mean, you're being really careful, right, what with refusing to take a side in the war until you understood what was happening..." 

Yfandes is suddenly oddly tense. 

...Well, it's a tense situation, isn't it. Vanyel doesn't feel like poking at this more. 

"Yeah, my guess is it's going to be some kind of weird magic interaction or ecological problem that naive due diligence wouldn't catch."

"Mmm, right. I guess we'd better try to learn more, then." 

Vanyel leans back against the headrest of his shuttle seat, closing his eyes. 

Yfandes lifts her head. For a long moment, her too-humanlike blue eyes stare piercingly at Cam. 

...Cam blinks at her. Waves hello.

Yfandes hesitates for a long time. 

:...I'm sorry, I don't - I'm not really supposed to do this, but - it seems important. I - just, you should know that a lot of us have been getting...hunches, about what you're doing here. Not very reassuring ones:  

"...are they at least informative?"

Yfandes' flank rises and falls in an oddly-humanlike sigh. 

:Not as much as I'd prefer. Taver can see the most, I think, he said he saw - darkness. And fire: 

"Okay, well, I'm not going to put out the sun or ignite the atmosphere and hopefully the fact finding trip will be more useful."

:I hope so: 

Yfandes' mindvoice doesn't sound especially hopeful. 

"Would it make you feel better if I told Vanyel how to dismiss me?"

:- Oh: Yfandes goes very still. :Would...you be willing to do that? I thought - I guess I'd been assuming you didn't want to be dismissed: 

"I don't! I had originally planned on sitting on that information because the opportunity cost is so high. But if there starts being DARKNESS AND FIRE all over the place and I can't fix it and it looks like getting rid of me might help..."

Yfandes goes very still for a moment. 

:- Yes. If you're willing, then...yes, I would find that reassuring and I appreciate the offer deeply: 

"Vanyel?"

Vanyel lifts his head. "Hmm?" 

"Can we go over under what circumstances you'd decide it was a good idea to dismiss me if you knew how to do that?"

"- What? I, um... Depends whether I can summon you back again later, I think? If not, then...that's a really huge thing to give up, right, and I'd...prefer not to unless I -" 

He trails off, grimacing. 

"- Unless I - thought you were about to do enough damage that even your powers couldn't repair it, I guess. I don't know what that'd look like." 

"I don't know if you can summon me back or not! I mean, I can tell you how you'd do it, but I don't know if it'd work, because apparently you can't normally summon daeva here."

Yfandes lifts her head again. :I'm not sure we actually know that? We didn't know summoning daeva was a thing at all, Jisa did it by accident: 

"...Could we test it? Try summoning someone else?"

"Yes but one thing that might go wrong is it might turn out you can't send them home again."