....He's missing something, here. Something huge. 

:All right. Do you want, er, some space? I can't go far but I can go into the other room and lock the door: 

He's stretched impossibly - there are too many directions and not enough of him and he can'tcan'tcan't–

:Please: 

:Of course. I love you: 

Kilchas returns to the room with the telescope, shuts the door. Looks around for a way to lock it and then, with a mental shrug, slides down to sit against it so that his own weight holds it shut. 

The 'I love you' really should help but it doesn't at all. 

The desperate pressure-tension decreases just a touch, though, when Kilchas is out of sight and behind a closed door. Rohan still has very little space to think, but he has something. 

Kilchas spends a minute hugging his knees and shivering, and then another minute poking at the phone, trying to recall the instructions he got. 

He texts Vanyel.

[What in all hells is happening down there] 

Vanyel is half-dozing when his phone makes a noise. 

He flops over, blinking at the ceiling. He seems to be alone in the room, so what was that - oh, right... 

It takes him another thirty seconds to wake up enough that he can track down where he hid the phone, get it into his hand, and look at the message notification. 

[What?]

...Vanyel is still in the House of Healing, probably, it's quite possible he should have called Keiran instead. But Vanyel is more, well. Sensible. That's not quite the right word but it's the best Kilchas can think of. 

[Why did Taver order us to dismiss Cam]

Vanyel stares at the phone screen for a long time, frozen. 

[Taver did what]

[Yfandes didn't tell you?] 

[They questioned Karis and she was definitely possessed]

[Vkandis sent her a Suncat] 

[Taver was scared Vkandis would keep attacking us while Cam was here] 

[Until we manage to talk to him] 

Vanyel blinks at the messages, still mostly not absorbing it. 

[You didn't do it though right] 

[I talked to him first]

A long pause. 

[He agreed it seemed sensible] 

[But I talked to] Vanyel starts typing– and then stops, without sending it. 

He goes back to look at his message history with Cam, which takes thirty seconds of poking. 

...Oh gods. 

That conversation is mortifying. Cam must have been so confused. Also Vanyel should ask someone to make sure he is never ever allowed to send phone text messages while on a lot of pain-drugs ever ever again. 

After a long hesitation, Vanyel goes back and deletes the words he's typed into his message-field to Kilchas. He starts over. 

[Thank you for telling me]

[I hadn't heard anything] 

[What are you worried about] 

Hmm. That was also a very weird pause.

Kilchas doesn't press, though. Vanyel is at the House of Healing recovering from serious injuries. Maybe he just needed to rest and catch his breath, or a Healer came in to see him, or something equally unsuspicious. 

[My Companion's acting weird] 

[It sounded like maybe Taver was off as well] 

Yfandes hasn't been really...speaking with him...either... 

Vanyel stares at the phone screen for a long time, and notices that he's still not writing anything at all. 

Eventually he grits his teeth, and tries reaching out toward Yfandes. 

She's blocking him out, firmly enough that she doesn't even consciously notice his attempt. 

At any other time, this would hurt a lot. 

But too much is already happening at once, and Vanyel is already too exhausted and confused. 

[Yfandes is acting strange too] he types out to Kilchas, without further specifying. 

After a few beats, he adds: 

[What exactly did your Rohan do?]

Kilchas blinks at the screen. He glances longingly at the telescope setup, still pointed to the stars... 

[He seemed incoherent and said he couldn't think about it] 

[When I asked about what, he said Vkandis]

[and then hesitated, and then]

Kilchas, too, hesitates for a long time before finishing and sending this message. 

[and then hesitated, and then said he couldn't think about me either] 

That fits. In a way Vanyel desperately wishes it didn't fit, but it does. 

[I'll update you when I know more] he promises Kilchas, and then takes a deep breath, braces himself, and reaches out again. 

:Savil?: 

Savil is two-thirds of the way to the House of Healing, along with the group of Healers and trainees carrying Tran on a litter, Delian following anxiously. 

She jumps. :- Van? What is it - are you all right -: 

Vanyel has no idea how to answer that question. 

:...I'm fine. Kilchas just contacted me from the space station, though. He wants to know why Taver did it: 

:Why Taver -: 

This is so hard to say. 

:We don't know: 

:What do you mean, you don't KNOW?: