Blink blink. :- Blocks as in the spaces between streets in a city? I think it's be closer to that than either feet or miles. His range is miles when he's awake but it's probably a lot less when he's not being deliberate about it: 

"...okay. So you need to stay in an otherwise-empty farmhouse. You're not actually sick, right, just on iso protocol as a precaution because you're from a different universe?"

:We're not physically sick, no. I'm fine. Leareth...has trouble with various things right now, because of what happened during the last war - honestly I probably need to explain that at some point but I've been holding off for privacy reasons until I know I'm definitely talking to the right person: 

"The right person as in some kind of personal care assistant?"

:I don't know what it'd be in your world, honestly. For Velgarth it would be - me, basically, but if you don't have magic at all then you probably don't have Mindhealers?: 

"Not magical ones. There are people who specialize in the treatment of mental conditions. I wasn't sure if you were trying to say he needs more treatment than you can provide or if, in addition to treatment, he needs shorter-term support."

Sigh. :I...don't know. I don't think he needs more treatment than I can provide, it's not like we had that option before either. I suspect I'm going to end up very stressed if I'm solely responsible for him for an extended period of time. I can think about what specifically would make that easier, but - honestly this whole evacuation plan was extremely rushed and we didn't know anything about your world beforehand and whether there would be better options available that 'we camp out in the wilderness for the next year': 

"...I think you can improve on camping out in the wilderness for a year. Do you have - camping - gear?" says Dree.

:That's a lot of what we packed! Food would have been the main problem if we had to do that. I'm really glad we can probably improve on it, even aside from all the other issues with it I personally hate camping: 

"Okay. I'm going to look into places you might be able to transfer to. Do you have any other exceptional needs besides not being near neighbors?"

:I am not sure I have a good sense of what would be exceptional here. I don't think so? It's better if it's quiet, but that probably comes along with not having neighbors: 

There are STILL PEOPLE and this is terrible. 

:Do we have a plan yet?: Leareth asks Melody, not particularly trying to exclude Dree from his Mindspeech (which, given that she's not Gifted, means she sort of gets it but it's faint and garbled.) 

"Well, it might have animals - sorry, did you say something?"

:Sorry, I think he was asking me if we had a plan yet. Leareth, it's all right, we're working on it. ...Er, are they large animals?: 

"Would that be a problem? If there were a rentable spare-house on a dairy farm or a horse ranch? I don't have anything specific in mind, yet, I'm getting a sense of the search space."

:I think that would probably work?: Melody has no idea if Leareth is going to be freaked out by cows or horses. He doesn't seem to be scared of Yfandes but she is obviously not a normal horse. :I guess that would be one of the ways to find somewhere remote: 

If Melody were willing to unblock his mage-gift for five minutes he could put basic shielding on the walls. Probably. Leareth is not entirely sure he could still manage this, after years of not using magic at all, but it's not like the technique is hard. Leareth doesn't say anything, though, just gives Melody a somewhat grumpy look. 

Melody has received her fair share of grumpy looks over her life and is immune to them. 

"Okay. I'll see what's available." Dree helps herself to a seat and pokes her phone to see what there is to be had.

Leareth takes a few deep breaths, steeling himself. 

:- How do those work? I realize you are maybe not the right person to ask and I should talk to a specialist, but - we have nothing like it in Velgarth, not even with magic, it is very impressive: 

"I only know in the most general terms," says Dree absently, scrolling through listings. "It's got a battery, which I have to charge, and that runs everything else it does, and it communicates with the Internet via - possibly radio but I'm not actually sure if it's radio or some other band of signal - and it's got programs on it which are written in computer code... okay, here's something that might do, place up in the hills with pashminas, farm workers might come nearby during the day but not at night. Here's a picture." She turns her phone to display a somewhat disrepaired cute little cottage dug into a hillside, with stairs up to it. "Plumbing and electricity, wifi is listed as 'spotty' but that won't be a problem for you any time soon, apparently the heater is loud but it's warm enough you won't need to turn it on in the near future, what do you think?"

Leareth is very intently reading her mind and he wants to know everything about the 'Internet' and 'wifi' and 'computer code' and - he can make a slightly better guess about what 'batteries' are, and 'radio' is almost comprehensible, but he still wants to sit down with someone for several candlemarks and ask a hundred questions. 

He doesn't ask any questions right now because talking to people is hard. He also mostly misses the part where she's showing them the house because he's distracted trying to guess what 'computer code' could be referring to.

Melody is only half following the explanation, though she's pleased Leareth is engaging at all. 

:- Sorry, what? Oh. That looks fine, I think. How far away is it - do we need to walk there...?: 

"It's a six mile drive, so substantially farther and windier than you would have gone to get here. I think anything really remote will be at least that far."

:Right. I think Leareth wasn't delighted about the trip here but I'm not actually sure what the problem was, he just looked miserable and asked if we could go around corners more slowly. Probably it's fine if it's just one more trip?: