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the gods of velgarth are NOT prepared for demon cam
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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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Jisa is exactly where Cam left her, sitting on the floor with her fire blanket wrapped tightly around her. She jumps up when she hears his footsteps, though. "Did you fight her?" 

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"Tied her up, it wasn't a fight. Vanyel's going to be okay, your mom's with him now." Hug?

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Huh! Jisa sniffles into Cam's shoulder. "...Van didn't die? I thought he was dead - I left him - I should've got someone, I should've helped him, Cam it was all my fault..." 

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"You did get someone, you got me, and it's going to be okay. He was - briefly dead, enough to unsummon me, but apparently healing magic here is really good and he's going to be fine, we'll get him up and about again."

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Jisa hugs Cam without saying anything for a while, her tears eventually trailing off into quiet hiccups. 

"...Cam," she says finally, in a very small voice. "Cam, I was naughty - I did a bad thing, I shouldn't have..." 

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"...I'm glad you used my circle and not the complicated one," he allows, "but it worked out, okay?"

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"No it's not that– not just that. I, I - used Empathy so Uncle Van would sleep. Because I wanted to see what was in his package and he wouldn't've let me." 

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"Oh. Well. You shouldn't have done that and you shouldn't do it again but it's not the biggest concern right now."

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"But - but if I hadn't made him so sleepy then maybe he would have shielded and he wouldn't have gotten hurt, it's my fault, Mama will be so angry with me!" 

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"I don't think your mama'll be angry with you about Karis stabbing Vanyel!"

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