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blai in book 11 of asftv
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do they need a guidance or two. for the math.

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...You know that's actually a great idea! You know who they should get Guidances from: Joshel! Math is portable, right, if it's portable enough to come to this room it's portable enough to go to whatever field office Joshel is parked in doing administration work when he's not channeling, and it's not like the border is much more distracting than this room full of horribly ill people. The math researchers really don't need to be seeing the horribly ill people heroically casting spells for them and feel pressured, feeling time pressure is really bad for high-level abstract theoretical work, or at least that's received wisdom he believes, it mostly wasn't relevant to his own work. 

Seldan will bounce the idea to Jisa right now. 

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but Blai is so good at Guidance. he has probably cast it literally millions of times that is not how spells work and does not matter and he will go back to sleep now.

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(Blai did tell Jisa that she and Brightstar personally can come get Blai-Guidances, if it's a particularly good time. They're already maximally emotionally involved in the horribly-dying-people situation, it won't cause them any more anxiety about it.) 

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Another night. Gemma's covering while Shavri is gone, because Shavri trusts her and won't wake up in a panic and rush here for no reason.

She wakes Blai for the after-midnight and the several-candlemarks-before-dawn channels. And then, after looking at him, doesn't actually give him the opportunity of trying to hold the spout-cup himself. She'll just quietly do that for him. 

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Vanyel makes it through the entire night without anything trying to eat his lungs! He's feverish anyway, probably also from something in some deep abdominal organ somewhere, that kind of thing can be surprisingly hard to hunt down on Healing-Sight. He's very sleepy but otherwise reasonably coherent. 

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Stef's diseases were on their way back by evening and by this point he's got something in his blood and he's gone from incoherent to not-really-waking-up, but he's not imminently dying of blood-poisoning. With just a Lesser Restoration he would probably survive until, like, noon, he has a young healthy heart and his lungs are okay this time. They won't make him wait that long, but he probably could. 

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He made it two entire days between Remove Disease castings! That's so much better than Shavri's worst fears. 

 

 

Pleaaaaaaase tell her Blai is still fine? How's Seldan looking, he hasn't had any Remove Disease castings yet.

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Seldan is...not fine, okay, he feels bad, his insides in particular feel really bad - not nausea, just a really impressive degree of pain...but he's not actively feverish yet and he's coherent. Blai...is a lot better off than he was yesterday at dawn, he thinks. 

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Shavri has a look and concludes that Blai has several incipient infections that they didn't quite catch before they were settled in, but he's not spiking a fever about it yet and she knows he can still cast ten candlemarks after the fever starts and probably longer. That's not terrible. He would ideally get a casting before dawn tomorrow, she - hmm - it's a lot less costly if Vanyel is too incoherent for prayer, as long as he can still use his channels, she might have to prioritize based on that... 

 

To Blai: same spells as always, please. 

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yes sir what are those please. just in case the desideratum here is to get them correctly prepared instead of to test Blai on being able to remember.

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(List on the wall...? Yes, good, Seldan is blurry-headed enough today to want to make really sure he remembers right, but he can still focus his eyes enough to read.) 

Orisons: what he already has, Create Water, Guidance, Stabilize, Virtue. Four Remove Sickness. Four Lesser Restorations. Two Remove Disease. 

Privately, :Shavri you need to be more specific than that tomorrow.: Tomorrow Seldan might not be able to read or to remember that he's supposed to. 

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Blai anxiously repeats that list in his head really really fast so he doesn't have time to forget the beginning of the list before he gets back to it again. For an hour.

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Blai is very good, at all times but especially now, and Seldan is here. It eventually occurs to him to try being more obtrusively here in case Blai is bleary enough to be forgetting he has a Seldan to draw on now, having a Seldan is not nearly as deeply engrained a habit as...other things. 

 

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An hour later,

:Lesser Restoration, on yourself.: 

Hopefully that will perk him up a tiny bit. Oh good, it's still not quite catching him up to yesterday but the rate of non-Lesser-Restorationable damage isn't accelerating

After that she'll point out the others one by one, saying their names but also just literally pointing and doing a mental equivalent in Mindspeech. Blai later today might be out of it enough to forget who Vanyel is or something. Seldan gets zero Lesser Restorations and Vanyel gets two, today, Endurance and then Strength. 

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Maybe she could literally put his hand on the people he's supposed to cast on for him, that might work better than pointing. Assuming the desideratum is to actually etcetera.

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Of course. After all of that she also wants a Remove Sickness on this man and also that man (so she only has to bother Blai once, she can painblock for both of them since they're lifebonded and she knows how to do that now). She's going to move the beds really close together to make this easier. They can't give each other pneumonia if the other Healers do their goddamned job and no one gets pneumonia in the first place. 

(Shavri really, really wants to take the stupid stimulant again, less because she's sleepy and more because it would turn off all her fucking emotions, none of which are helping even if they mostly aren't getting in her way.) 

 

 

She's going to want a Remove Disease on Stef well before noon, she doesn't want to risk cutting it too close, but if Seldan thinks they can hold off on Blai's then she would really like to. He's not imminently dying and he doesn't even quite have blood-poisoning yet, just a whole bunch of things growing where they shouldn't. Probably half of why he's so miserable is because his body is actually still trying to fight it. 

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...How does Blai seem when Shavri shakes him awake and puts his hand on Stef and uses her mildly alarming command voice to instruct him to cast Remove Disease on the person he's touching?

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He does not super know where he is or what's going on or why there is a horse in his brain but he does have enough dregs of consciousness left to run a cursory check of whether this person is authorized to tell him to do things and it returns "yes" so he does the things.

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