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blai in book 11 of asftv
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Seldan's consideration is that he would like a Restoration - either that or a week of doing nothing but eating and sleeping, he does think that go a long way - before he has to do any reasoning about considerations Gemma might have missed.

(Also, while it's certainly very convenient that most of the rooms in the House of Healing have doors wide enough for him not to worry about wedging himself, and the room itself has enough aisle space to move fairly comfortably, he already misses his floor-straw-box. Yfandes seems content to tuck herself beside one of the sofas and remain standing. Seldan is going to...lie down parallel to the sofa at Blai's feet, how about that. The floor isn't spectacularly comfortable but he's not actually sick or injured, just tired.) 

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Aziza nods agreeably at Van.

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What is the agenda of this gathering, is it just a post-treatment assessment? What would she like assessed exactly, how bad Blai wants a chicken pie? (He's finished his soup and bread in record time and still wants that pie. A lot.) ...wow Seldan's mane is not in good condition after all this and he's gonna Prestidigitate a comb about that. (What would the etiquette of asking the Osirian wizard for a cleansing Prestidigitation be - not under his command at all and fifth circle, probably can't be done inoffensively without, like, a monetary bid, and even that might not land and Blai doesn't have any money... he could absent a Prestidigitation certainly use a bath, what do Companions do about that especially in winter...) He could plausibly absorb more Restorations if Brightstar is about to burst into the room with a Gate-routing to the Elemental Plane of Diamond Dust but like at some point they are going to run out the supply of easily purchased diamonds on this planet and they could stand to have a care about allocating them before that. Blai can think and walk and stuff and he's not an adventurer or even planning to go back to the Wound. The government of Valdemar and the... organization of Leareth... don't owe him anything and he doesn't need it to do basic things. Like comb Seldan's mane. Does his own hair look that bad. He'll run the comb through it when he's done with what he can see in front of him. ...is it rude to groom your Companion in front of people??

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Seldan's impression is indeed that Gemma is trying to get a post-treatment assessment and figure out how to split up the remaining Healing they have available in a way that results in everyone being, if not 100% perfectly back to their top health, at least not impaired enough to need to stay here. Seldan...does think he has a better chance than the humans of eventually making a full recovery on his own, Groveborn are known to be very hard to permanently disable with any injury they survive at all, but he sure isn't making it to the stable on his own like this. He is so aware right now that he weighs ten times what he used to and will need to support all of that weight to move himself anywhere even at a slow walk. 

Seldan is definitely pulling up some vague sense-memory of spending candlemarks combing and currying his own Companion, back when he was human-shaped, so he thinks that's the main way they address it in winter? Blai should definitely get a bath, though! The bathing facilities are so much nicer than they were in his own time. 

 

....It's not....true....that Valdemar and Leareth's organization don't owe Blai anything??????? That's simply incorrect?????? Blai does in fact seem more or less functional and they're not expecting to end up in combat so it's probably still the correct call to put him at the bottom of the priority list, but not because he doesn't entirely deserve to be on that list! Blai is the entire reason anyone survived! And was essential to getting the Gate in the first place, and he saved Leareth's life at significant risk to himself before any of the Iftel things, and in short where did he even produce the idea that Leareth's organization would not consider themselves to owe him anything? Let alone the government of Valdemar, who Seldan is pretty sure will consider themselves to owe him whatever they can do for him just because they care about him and do sometimes make decisions for sentimental reasons. Leareth's organization won't, and are providing the diamonds, but Blai is the literal entire reason they have a valuable use for diamonds at all, and it's not like this is mostly an accident of Blai happening to be the one who ended up in this world, it's very much dependent on Blai having, personally, at so many different points, made decisions that resulted in better outcomes???

(This is possibly the most indignant protectiveness and fond exasperation that Seldan has let himself show openly toward Blai at any point.) 

(Also, no, it's not that he's aware of rude to groom your Companion in front of people.) 

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Blai doesn't mean he hasn't been useful! It seems like he has probably been useful! But he's not in any of these people's employ and did not make a deal with any of them for compensation. He's working for Iomedae who pays him in spells and, like, not going to Hell. If they were like "actually we consider any ill-defined debt toward you discharged by the thing where we saved you from dying of whatever Radioactivity is, using many grueling days of Healer labor and some expensive spells hired on an emergency basis from Sothis" he would have no grounds to dispute this. That's not going to stop the Valdemaran government from making sentimental decisions and he is admittedly hoping that one of those sentimental decisions is buying him a chicken pie real soon now but that's not the same thing as any of these people owing him. (Comb comb.)

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...not the time to write an entire treatise in his head unpacking the very many different things people can mean when they say they "owe" someone something. 

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Gemma waits a few beats. 

"Great. Raise your hand if you had trouble with the walk over to this room?" She echoes it in Mindspeech for Blai's benefit (and includes the random cleric, who one assumes did not have trouble at all, because it feels kind of rude not to and because Aziza is sort of a colleague of the Healers right now.) 

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Seldan literally cannot raise his "hand" that he doesn't have but he can Mindspeak. :I did.: 

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A...little...? Nayoki continues to desperately crave spending the next two days in bed drinking soup and taking naps. But the walk over wasn't hard out of proportion to how everything else is hard. She makes a wiggly-hand gesture. 

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Sera doesn't raise her hand. She's also very tired but it's not all that much in the "something is wrong with her muscles specifically" way. She's mostly just shaky, and drowsy enough to feel pretty stupid. 

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Leareth raises his hand without any change in his expression. (It take some concentration not to accidentally whack Nayoki in the face in the process of accomplishing this.) 

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Does Gemma really have to make him ADMIT it in front of EVERYONE. ...Vanyel realizers this is a stupid thought even before the mental Yfandes-nudge. He raises his hand. 

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Not really, mostly Stef wants an excuse to laze around and be waited upon a bit while not feeling horribly nauseous at all times. He didn't get a chance to enjoy being cosseted and taken care of at all. He doesn't raise his hand. 

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Blai's hand stays down.

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"Okay. That's three people - Seldan, Vanyel, Leareth - who are going to have trouble physically making it as far as a different building unless we solve that. ...Who thinks they would really struggle to hold a pen and write - or cast spells, in Van and Blai's cases?" 

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Stef's handwriting is twice as terrible right now as usual and he would embarrass himself so badly if asked to play the lute in front of anyone with the slightest musical discernment, but he's been able to take notes this morning so the answer to the literal question is no? He resents it, though. 

 

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He's been able to cast Guidance today. Writing sounds hard but mostly because he's tired, not because he's having the really bad version of the problem where he can't feel his hands properly. Vanyel doesn't raise his hand for this one. 

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Wiggly-hand gesture again? Nayoki would be more worried about falling asleep with her head on the desk if she tries to do any paperwork today. 

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Her hands are pretty shaky but she's had a look with Healing-Sight and she doesn't think she has any of the nerve damage that the Valdemaran Healer was talking about, just a bit of lingering inflammation that ought to clear up over a few days now that the underlying cause is removed. Sera doesn't raise her hand. 

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....Leareth raises his hand for that one again. Very expressionlessly. 

 

(There's a lot going on and it's somewhat hard to keep tracking all of it but Leareth has not failed to notice that he's the only person who's already had a "Restoration" and is still raising his hand for multiple questions.) 

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....Seems non-applicable for Seldan. If he has a clumsiness problem it won't be with writing and he's not sure he's going to be very able to notice it until he tries an obstacle course at a gallop or something. Which he shouldn't do for so many reasons, so it doesn't matter enormously. 

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Guidance. ...that works fine. Hand down.

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"Okay that's one person who definitely has a problem, one sort-of. Stef, I saw that face and I'm aware that you need your hands working a lot better than just 'well enough to write' but I agree it's not critical today. Van, I don't entirely believe you that you're fine but it sounds like you're feeling relatively less impaired on dexterity than then ability to walk and that's useful to know." 

Gemma has also not failed to notice that Leareth has gotten by far the most healing this morning and still has - problems. Well, it's not like it's news that it's very bad for someone to be directly targeted by a divine attack fueled by the entirety of Iftel - okay, fine, the entirety of the Iftel shield-barrier but that was really, really big - and everyone except Leareth got a channel within seconds, which they know can successfully interrupt and reset a lot of the damage-cascade because they kept four people alive for an entire ten days mostly with channels - and then continuous Healing-Gift support starting within minutes. It's not shocking that, given whatever the kinds of damage are that neither the mystery spell nor being literally raised from the dead can repair, Leareth died and came back with more of it. 

"Who here is wishing they could be napping instead of being in this meeting?" she adds. 

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...Okay, fine, a bit. Stuffing his face with food feels like a more urgent priority but Vanyel has to admit that he would have a lot of trouble staying awake through an entire Council meeting if Randi were to ask him to sit in on one this afternoon. 

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Not really he's too excited about the SONG which is going to be AMAZING sleep is for the uninspired

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