"Oh. I guess." Jisa sniffles again, then goes to blow her nose on her sleeve. "- I wanna see Uncle Van, can I, where is he?" 

"In his room last I saw but they may have moved him by now, do you want to go check?"

"Mmm-hmm." Jisa is going to stay practically glued to Cam's side, though. 

Shavri and a knot of other Healers are in the process of getting Vanyel, now laid out on a stretcher, out through the door of his room while trying not to disturb any of the medical equipment Cam conjured. 

Jaysen has joined Savil in guarding Karis, who's still motionless. Judging by the looks they're exchanging, the two Herald-Mages are having a heated Mindspeech conversation. 

Jisa lets out a very small whimper when she sees Vanyel. 

"He's gonna be okay." Cam helps arrange the tube in relation to the stretcher so it can do its job.

"Cam," Savil says, her tone flat. "Meeting after this? Need to talk about - what just happened." She adds in a final mutter, under her breath and mostly to herself, of "Why now?" 

"Yeah, we can meet after this." Cam is going to stick close to Jisa, who seems fragile. But he'll check his mail while he does it.

He has mail from Leareth! 

Two messages, actually. One of them is pretty long, with an introductory paragraph telling him to expect a list of all the times Leareth's plans were thwarted by what he suspects were god-managed coincidences; he acknowledges that he may be wrong in a few cases, some bad luck is to be expected, but he thinks the overall pattern definitely cannot have been chance. The next paragraph starts off listing occasions when Leareth was assassinated; a mention that he was set on fire by Vkandis jumps out to Cam's eye. 

The second message is more recent, and short. Leareth notes it's been ten minutes since he dropped off his letter, with no reply or even confirmation of receipt, is there a problem? 

Cam sighs, calculates his distance from the drones that are still reporting to him from the north, and gives one a letter to drop in the mailbox. Sorry for the delay, Vkandis is every bit as impolite as described!

Leareth receives this message (relayed in Mindspeech) within about sixty seconds of Cam's letter delivery. 

He goes perfectly still. Another full minute passes before he picks up his pen again, and then - unusually for him - he iterates through several drafts before he gets one he's happy with passing on. 

:Nayoki: he adds. :Eyes on Haven. Now. I suspect that something is wrong: 

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Dear unknown Power,

Are you currently in danger? I lack context on your defences, though I assume they are considerable, given your demonstrated abilities. If you need a location that is more safe from god-meddling, I will make my facilities in the north available.

You should be aware that you are almost certainly not safe in Haven. The Palace contains a Heartstone fuelling the Web, giving the Star-Eyed significant influence, and a representative of Vkandis is now on site. The Companions may be acting as agents for yet a third god. 

Jisa holds Cam's hand tightly the whole way to the House of Healing, but she's looking a lot calmer by the time they get there and the Healers transfer Vanyel to a bed. 

Shavri gives a hasty Mindspeech report to Gemma while they get Vanyel settled, and then she can finally be spared from the keeping-Vanyel-alive project to hug her daughter. 

The Star-Eyed wasn't rude and warned Cam that Leareth likes miiiiind controoooool so he's not gonna fall for that one. Thanks but I'm all set! Please don't let me distract you from your important anti-poverty activism.

And he passes Shavri a note: I'm worried that Vanyel might have been attacked because he's my summoner. Currently Jisa is my summoner. I think it might be wise to ask her to dismiss me and have me resummoned by someone who's willing to come up to my space station with me.

Shavri takes the note and reads it over Jisa's head without letting go of her daughter.

Her eyes go wide. Now? she mouths to Cam. 

I don't know if the timing's that tight, there's time to find a volunteer.

Shavri nods. "You'd better go meet with Savil." 

Jisa gives Cam a watery smile over her mother's shoulder. "I'm all right. Thank you for the blanket." She's still wearing the fire blanket, like a cape. "I can keep it so I'll be safe?" 

"Yes, that blanket is yours to keep."

"Thank you. Come back and visit soon?" 

"Of course I will."

And where is Savil at.

Still exactly where Cam left her, arguing with Jaysen and Tantras (who is keeping his distance for safety, just in case) about what to do with Karis now.

They should probably...question her...or something...? This seems hard because Karis is basically ignoring all of their attempts to talk to her. Also Tran is worried that doing things to her in general might cause a repeat of whatever the hell just happened. 

"I don't want to drop her off in Karse, considering, but I don't know what affordances for keeping prisoners you have here."

Savil keeps her voice low, not that Karis seems to be paying any attention but just on principle. "I mean, we do have cells in the Palace, or we could haul her to the Guardhouse - though I think this is a Heralds' matter and ought to stay that way. She's not Gifted. I just...don't know if she's going to start randomly murdering people again -"  

- she freezes, eyes narrowing, and then switches to Mindspeech. :Jisa. She can't know where Jisa is: