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blai in book 11 of asftv
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It does help! Like with the others, it doesn't put back the missing life-force, but the leak is gone and he could hold more now if he were to get a channel or a Cure for it. It lands about as hard as one of the good Lesser Restorations - or rather two at once on Endurance and Strength - except that it does look to Shavri like it's getting the glued-in damage that is very definitely there. 

 

There's definitely something else badly wrong, not just the physical damage. Leareth isn't unconscious, his eyes are half-open, but he's not focusing or seeming to recognize anyone. And he abruptly has a lot more Strength than the Dexterity thing that Van needed to cast spells. 

He doesn't try to Gate anywhere. He does try to flail off the bed.

(It has railings, fortunately, so he's not going anywhere.) 

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Oh noooo. :Leareth: Sera sends, and reaches for him – she knows he hates being touched when he's...vulnerable...like this but he's going to hurt himself. :Leareth, it's fine, you're safe, we're in Haven - in Haven and they shut down the Heartstone it's safe here - it's Sera, you know me, you just need to calm down -: 

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Leareth gives absolutely no indication of recognizing her or understanding Mindspeech. 

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oh no this is so much worse than being lectured 

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The fifth-circle Abadaran lady, Cicerone Kanza, has dust at the ready. "Restoration."

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Restoration takes three rounds to cast. From Sera's perspective this feels like a very, very long time. 

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It's long enough for Shavri to get a Healing-link up – it's not terribly hard, physically he's stable and not dying and his heartbeat is steady, although within seconds it's trying to be very very fast because he clearly doesn't have the slightest idea what's happening or why he's being restrained and is terrified. 

Assessment: wow that is a lot of nerve damage, including quite a lot of it that looks sticky, a Restoration targeted on Endurance - which she assumes is the plan - won't get the sticky part of that. The fixing-it spell does seem to have gotten at least a very solid chunk of the damage to his literal muscle strength and she thinks that a solid majority of what's left won't be sticky though of course she'll know for sure in another ten seconds. 

There's something diffusely wrong in his brain, removing the progressive-damage source of it didn't remove all the downstream effects and there were really quite a lot of downstream effects and it's - some of it is injurylike, the way people look after they've had a hard blow to the head, some of it is more reminiscent of elderly people...there's something else she doesn't even know how to describe, or maybe six different something-elses, because it turns out that brains are fragile and they do not so much like the results of the whole progressive-damage cascade playing out to their very conclusion, and there was time for that to happen before Leareth actually died, apparently - that might have been the main damage that killed him, that without healing in the first seconds his brain just started...disintegrating...even as his heart kept beating... 

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- the Restoration did get something, Shavri had Thoughtsensing open and it wasn't even getting her anything meaningful that she could parse - it was like reading an infant, there's a mind there but not really a person - and now there's a person. 

 

A very very scared person who is still not processing his surroundings very well and is sort of abruptly snapping to something like actual consciousness with his body already in a full-fledged panic-reaction and pretty much the only semi-coherent thought he can retrieve (which is the last semi-coherent thought he remembers hanging onto) is an absolute certainty that he's dying and nobody is going to come.

(He stops flailing and holds very still.) 

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:Leareth: Sera sends, for what feels like the hundredth time in the last...it hasn't even been thirty seconds.:Leareth, it's Healer Sera, we're in Haven, you're safe, can you - if it's too hard to speak or Mindspeak just think that you understand me, please -: 

 

He does not answer her. 

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To Healing-Sight it looks like the Restoration got a lot of damage that wasn't all that deeply stuck in place – it was very 'recent' damage, the last ten or fifteen minutes of Leareth's life – and Shavri isn't actually sure why something still seems so badly wrong with him. A Cure would help, she thinks, some of whatever's wrong is injury-like, but - she's never seen quite this sort of pattern before, which makes sense, she's never had a patient die of something unsurvivable and then be raised from the dead and subjected to two specifically-targeted healing spells from another world in quick succession. 

...The way that he's - scrambled - reminds her a bit of Van when he's been delirious with fever. Or Blai just recently, come to think of it. He doesn't actually have a fever, though, or any kind of disease that she can detect, which makes it a lot harder to figure out the solution. 

:I don't know what's wrong: she tells the various assembled clerics, almost plaintively. :He's just really, really confused for some reason - have you ever seen this happen before -: 

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"I have a new Heal, if you'd like me to try it."

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Shavri spends about two and a half seconds considering if it's perhaps a good idea to save the incredibly good expensive powerful spell - it's literally a higher circle than the Raise Dead, she thinks? though it admittedly doesn't eat a diamond - for later, and try cheaper things, like a Cure Light Wounds, it's going to be spectacularly overkill on Leareth's ability to absorb life-force just like it was on Randi. 

But it worked really well on Randi, on all the diffuse wrongness that wasn't exactly in the path of a Lesser Restoration, and it does seem plausible to Shavri that whatever Leareth has wrong with him would resemble a much much more severe version of that. 

:I think it's worth a try: she says tightly. 

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Sera is still tightly gripping both of Leareth's hands.

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Leareth is very suddenly no longer–

 

–well, he's confused! He's really quite confused! But mostly in the way where it's objectively a really confusing situation! Leareth is very sure who he is and is - located in the present - and has a feeling that until this exact moment he wasn't either of those things. He still has an enormous number of unanswered questions about where he is and when it is, and why and how he's in this particular when-and-where, and he's...scattered? no, that's not quite right, he just - keeps expecting to be able to hold onto more pieces at once than he in fact can - 

 

Also someone is Mindspeaking him and seems to be in the middle of a sentence that he wasn't parsing the start of and that's making things even more confusing. 

:I need a moment: he sends at - :Sera? Where are we?: 

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Sera is perhaps going to start literally crying in relief. 

 

:Haven. We're in Haven. You were dead - you're back, the cleric just Raised you - they got a Gate to Golarion yesterday -: She had a way more coherent version lined up before the last thirty seconds of...that. 

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...Leareth is immediately and on pure instinct going to attempt to mindread everyone in range. 

(His shields also snap up, though he doesn't actually knock Sera's hands away. She seems very upset right now and he doesn't want to make that worse.) 

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A rote prayer - golden sun shining on everyone, blue sky blanketing everyone, and this one in front of me right now -

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That was so much diamond dust and the spell should have the muscle memory to measure out the right amount but if there was some under her fingernails or something -

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He's gonna have enough money for a really nice headband after all this and it's not even life threatening.

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Sera is Gifted with excellent training and would normally be shielding more than this, but she's not wearing any of her talismans (after she died the Healers packed up her things to store in a locked cabinet they have for that purpose) and she's more or less fully open; she doesn't even notice the probe. She's shaking with relief and trying to get herself under control enough to stop literally crying and - he's shielding, he used Mindspeech and asked her a perfectly coherent question, he's actually back - 

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Ovada is also Gifted (mage-gift and Thoughtsensing both) and wearing a talisman against Thoughtsensing on habit. He does notice the probe, it's a lot - flailier - than usual, but the man was dead thirty seconds ago, it's still pretty impressive. 

He considers taking the talisman off, to let Leareth save some time on getting himself oriented, but then Leareth would see all of his STUPID WORRYING and it would probably not be reassuring at all! 

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Shavri is Gifted and has Tayledras training and Leareth...could probably still get through against her best efforts, honestly, if he were boosting his Thoughtsensing Gift with node-energy. She's not a mage.

He isn't pushing nearly that hard right now, but she lets him through anyway. Her mind is mostly full of echoes of the Heal spell under her Sight. It's such a beautiful spell! It still managed to be both massively overkill on Leareth - he couldn't hold onto a fraction of the life-force it tried to throw at him, though between the mystery spell and the Restoration and apparently being a more robust person than Randi ever was even when he was healthy, he did catch more of it and all the core patterns of life-force are bright and solid now - and in spite of that she suspects still didn't fix all the sticky damage - you know what she should do, honestly she should have done it before she asked Khayr to use up a very high-circle spell, she should have asked Jisa to come have a look, some of the things that were subtle and hard to tease apart in Healing-Sight would probably be glaringly obvious to a Mindhealer. It does look like it fully and truly fixed the fever-delirium-without-a-fever, which was the part that really had her unsure what to do, it might well have passed on its own with a week of rest but that would be such an awful week and meanwhile all his people really want him properly back - 

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Vanyel, on some intuition he didn't think about, dropped his shields a few seconds ago, at the point when it seemed like Leareth was awake-but-disoriented, it's just - a sense of Leareth as a person, that he's obviously going to need to make sense of where he is and use all of his Gifts to do so...

 

He's mostly frustrated that all of that just happened and the only even conceivably useful spell he had was Stabilize but at least! he could have cast it! instead of failing to cast it! He was supposed to be here to be a helpful reassuring presence and instead he feels like he froze and did nothing at all while Leareth was having some sort of confusing very bad time!

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