Leareth is lying in bed, propped up against pillows. He doesn't look more injured than before, but he does look incredibly wrung out. He looks like someone who has spent the last many hours being miserable and terrified. It's not clear if he's even noticed Carissa's arrival. 

Well, that is very unsurprising; interrogations are supposed to be horrible and proceed to the point where you're not capable of functioning well enough to tell if the things you're saying are strategic or not. They didn't do it to Carissa but that's because they are Good and can't accomplish their goals very reliably. 

She watches Leareth impassively.

Melody stands at the foot of the bed and scowls for a while. Mindhealing doesn't show minute-to-minute changes in emotional state that well, but she can tell when someone whose mental status is 'not all the way there' has been pushed to function anyway for way too long. 

"Moondance, I think you need to tell him to use Thoughtsensing - Carissa doesn't have the translation magic up." 

"If he even can. You might've considered stopping a candlemark ago if you wanted him capable of that." 

"Well, I suppose we'll see." 

:Carissa, do you have any other translation spells left, if it turns out he's too groggy to Thoughtsense you?: 

Not right now. In two hours I'll be able to prepare spells again. If she uses Keep Watch to skip sleep.

:I guess we'll see: 

Moondance approaches the bed again, stiffly. "Leareth. You can use Thoughtsensing on Carissa only to obtain instructions. You are still allowed to move in bed and speak." 

Leareth is not, in fact, too out of it to use Thoughtsensing!

Carissa is thinking that maybe if she can get him healthy she can ask him what percentage of the Star-Eyed followers he thinks get an afterlife. Probably not tonight but maybe tomorrow.

...Does she have plans for getting him healthy. Leareth isn't expecting the Heralds to grant him much rest, which will mean it takes longer to recover from the backlash. 

He can think a lot more coherently now that he's actively trying to do that, though.

And it's...surprisingly reassuring, to have Carissa there. Which makes no sense, on the face of it - she's the one who works for a torture god - but, whether or not Asmodeus is worse than the Star-Eyed Goddess in objective terms, He doesn't have any direct grievances with Leareth. 

He cracks his eyes open and looks at Carissa, to show her that he's listening. 

Moondance leaves with Starwind, after casting one final glance back at Carissa. The Heralds disperse. 

Melody stands nearby for a while, but she's clearly exhausted. She keeps covering up yawns. 

"Gemma?" she says finally. "He's pretty stable at this point, no?" 

"- He's not dying, if that's what you mean. Lot easier to get fluids into him with two people here." 

"Carissa can help the trainee with it? You need to sleep." 

"...True. I don't want to go far, but I reckon I could bed down in the spare room..." 

Gemma turns to Carissa. :Hey. Would you mind helping the Healing-trainee every so often with giving Leareth water? We're still trying to catch up after all that time you didn't let him eat or drink: 

All...eight hours. During which they actually did let him drink but he didn't drink much because he wanted to purify the water himself. 

She's being well-behaved. She looks crestfallen. I'm so sorry. I never meant for him to - of course I'll help.

Gemma feels slightly bad about snarking, when she catches herself. It wouldn't have affected Leareth nearly so hard if he hadn't just done a lot of strenuous magic before they captured him. It really wasn't good for him to be dropped in the Void, though. She's still confused about how Carissa isn't in worse shape from that; it can't just be that Leareth was the one who had to throw around even more magic to get them out... 

She leaves with Melody. 

One of the newly-graduated Heralds is parked in the empty room next door, after Vanyel keyed her to the shields.

Melody gives the girl a very quick briefing. :I really do need some sleep, but - try to read both of them, if you can, and take notes on anything major that comes up. Wake me if there's an emergency. I mean actually an emergency. ...If she tries to summon a devil, that's fine, it doesn't seem to work here:

And she and Gemma go off to sleep on the floor of the store-room behind the centre station, since all of the other patient rooms are taken right now. It feels just like old times, in a way, back in their home village. Except that Melody's hips are a lot less happy about sleeping on the floor now that she's almost fifty. 

Carissa casts Keep Watch. 

She uses Detect Magic to check if she's alone in the room. She seems to be.

Are you up for talking, or should I let you sleep?

Leareth glances over at the Healing-trainee, who is very young and very sleepy and bored-looking, and keeping himself awake by reading a book. 

He turns his eyes to Carissa and tries to indicate by facial expression alone that, yes, they should talk. And he's going to wrestle up the energy to make sure he's shielding his thoughts properly. 

She casts Nondetection on herself.

The young Herald in the other room definitely notices this! Leareth is shielding - not well, but combined with the fact that she's reading him through shields that Herald Vanyel (who she's still incredibly tongue-tied around) hastily keyed her to, it's enough to blur out his surface thoughts. 

And the foreign wizard...isn't shielding, exactly, but she's done something that makes her mind not show up clearly anymore? 

Is this an emergency.

This is probably not an emergency. Leareth clearly isn't going anywhere and Carissa can do magic but can't move, and there's a trainee in there watching both of them. 

She prepares to wake someone on short notice, though. 

Leareth blinks, noticing the change. 

...Can he still get through to read Carissa at all. 

Yes, but he has to beat her on a caster power check, so she knows the apparent-teenager in the corner isn't reading her too.