"Oh yes good come in." 

Gemma helps unwrap the various foods. There is, as requested, an enormous chicken pie for Blai. 

Oh yay an enormous chicken pie. Soon it will cease to exist. ...he's not really sure why he's still in this meeting except insofar as it would be hard for Seldan to go anywhere other than the room where it's happening before he gets his Restoration.

Oh right there was the spell! The one for Wisdom! Except that she didn't actually look at either Van or herself with Mindhealing Sight the time he was casting it, because she had no idea it would possibly come up as relevant and she's been trying really hard not to, like, peek at people's heads because she's curious and feels like it, and during her turn she was using it to think about the situation and not for navel-gazing. She would be going entirely off what it felt like, which isn't nothing, but...ugh. 

She does feel really quite sure that the amount Leareth cares about whether he can use his hands properly is a lot less than how much he cares about being able to think. 

- well, if Blai is here anyway and not busy then maybe she can spread the problem around. :Is the a usual way in Golarion - other than how many channels or spells a cleric gets, I mean - to diagnose if someone has a problem with Wisdom versus Splendor versus...I have no idea what the third one is actually. If I'd seen what the Owl's Wisdom spell looks like to Mindhealing Sight I think I could recognize a - change in the other direction, too - but I didn't look when we were doing them.:  

She includes the other cleric whose name she doesn't know, because why not. 

:Detect Thoughts can be used to gauge approximate Cunning. I don't know if the wizard in this contingent is trained in how to use it for that or if he even has the spell, and we don't have a baseline:

Of course there's a spell and Jisa waaaaaaants it and spends an entire five seconds or so wondering if she has enough Valdemaran money saved up from various holiday gifts to pay the wizard to cast it on her. This would of course in no way solve any of their problems! It's not decision-relevant in any way to know how Cunning she personally looks to a wizard spell, it's just very sparkly! How does that even work, you can't tell with Thoughtsensing except, like, indirectly based on content - 

...Anyway Leareth probably doesn't especially want to get mindread by a random wizard from another world for diagnostic purposes, even if it would be useful, which is not at all obvious given the lack of comparison points. 

Ugh. She should just ask Leareth's permission and then actually look. She's kind of scared to because - well, the thing she saw the last time she used her Sight on him was. Memorable. 

"Leareth, can I look at you with Mindhealing Sight?" 

This is clearly intended to be helpful and seems plausible on priors that it will succeed at that and Leareth has plenty of evidence that Jisa is - acting as an ally - and none of his inchoate objections are making themselves at all transparent to him. 

He looks at Nayoki. 

Nayoki nods. :I think it's a good idea: she adds, privately. 

"All right," Leareth says to Jisa. 

Peek. 

Well, he's not on fire!!! All the areas that should have plants have them and none of the plants are dead! They're also not...scattered all over as though in high winds, like she's seen in Brightstar's mind a few times, they're actually impressively unruffled, like someone has just gone through and tidied up this garden very nicely. They're not wilting or withered; this garden has been watered well recently. It's perfectly lush, from a high-level view. 

(The way his mind is structured is really weird and interesting but that isn't what she's here to investigate.) 

...She has to go in fairly close before she notices anything, and it's subtle. Nothing is missing completely, nothing is out of place exactly, nothing is nearly as thoroughly dead as what she remembers seeing years ago in (wince) Starwind's mind. 

But - there, that snaking vine that looked okay on the surface is - damaged, brittle and grey and cracked - on the underside, in a way that looks exactly like there was a fire here and some of the scorch-marks it left haven't been erased. The little climbing tendrils that should be spreading out to link up with all the neighboring plants are also, at a closer look, scorched and brittle on the undersides. 

Huh. 

"...Can you do a math problem or something?" she asks Leareth. "Uh. What's thirty-seven times fifteen?" 

Leareth...can do that. It's slower than usual but he's doing the 'mental math while very tired' version where he breaks it up methodically and he's capable of that. 

(It occurs to him after he finishes and tells Jisa the answer that it at no point in the last however-long occurred to him spontaneously to try doing a math problem and see if it worked! It should have! This is a really obvious test to run on himself if he suspects he's impaired! He just...failed to think of it somehow.) 

That is SO UNFAIR. It does seem like something is wrong, there are some abortive ripples that subside when something fails to connect as it should, and he's still barely slower than her. (Jisa realized a second after the numbers left her mouth that she did not in fact have the answer memorized and ought to, like, check that Leareth had gotten it right. Which he did. Maybe three seconds after she became confident of it herself.) 

Glance at Blai. :Math is Cunning, right? ...I think there's damage but, like, objectively speaking it really doesn't seem like it should be a huge problem, he got the answer right. Uh, is there some kind of - problem you can think about that you know works a lot better with an Owl's Wisdom, that I could have him do?: 

:Math is Cunning quite centrally. Wisdom is... reflection, observantness, as a proxy they used to use seriousness...:

Leareth has to be one of the most observant people ever to exist in the entire world so he’s…probably…normally pretty high on Wisdom? That does just seem true in the colloquial sense of the Valdemaran word he would use for Blai’s Mindspeech concept. And it does feel in conversations with Leareth like he’s talking to l someone who’s had several Owl’s Wisdom spells piled on him while Vanyel has had zero.

Jisa nods.

“What did you notice in the hallway on the walk?” Jisa asks Leareth. “Describe it for me.” That takes observantness, right? (Jisa has, embarrassingly, half-forgotten even though she’s here multiple times a week.)

…Well, Leareth was paying particular attention to objects to navigate, given how it takes deliberate concentration not to lose track of where his extremities are in space and run into things. It’s slow and his ability to visualize more than one thing at once is…not there…and the entire process by which thoughts not in words turn into words feels vague and lossy and takes a long time, but he can haltingly describe the hallway in between the room where he woke up and the current meeting-room, which included passing the center station and a trainee mopping the floor and a wagon of linens with one sheet half on the floor (he gave it a wide berth to avoid tripping hazards.)

He had mage-sight open and can also remember (slowly, and it takes even longer to pull up the right words) quite a lot of details of the standard House of Healing shields.

…Jisa is going to have to go out in the hall and check some of the things he mentioned, to make sure he’s not wildly misremembering details or something. The sheet is still half on the floor. She puts it away properly.

:Well, he’s having a hard time with something but the problem isn’t exactly with noticing and observing things? I don’t think?: Given how Jisa absolutely did not notice half of those things.

To Leareth, :- tell me what was harder than usual about that, it seemed like something was harder?: And that’s asking him to do reflection, right, so it’s also a test in its own right.

That question feels especially unfair. 

(Leareth goes on speaking out loud, half because he feels inexplicably aaaa about having his shields open even far enough for the formal Mindspeech channel, and half just because it’s less marked to speak slowly out loud.)

“It felt hard to - take the question that you said and turn it into a mental motion to try to do. And then remembering on purpose was - slow - and I would have to try a few times from different angles? I could not picture the whole hallway at once, only one thing at a time, and then it was slow to find words and to - check what I was about to say to be sure it was not ambiguous or confusing? Not - impossible - just, slow, and it took effort when it usually does not.”

Jisa relays it to Blai in Mindspeech on the off chance he has helpful commentary, and stares intently with Mindhealing Sight.

There’s a lot of movement interacting with the underground part. Everyone has some root systems, to Jisa’s Sight, but it stands out particularly in Leareth’s oddly deliberately-structured mind. There’s a lot of underground! In particular there’s a very high density of pathways that pass in and out of the underground and the more easily visible surface of his conscious thoughts. Jisa is most used to tracing emotion-pathways in and out of the underground, subconscious region, but there’s clearly more happening there, and especially so in Leareth’s mind. It’s just a lot harder to examine at a glance.

- though that’s a good thought. “Leareth, are you upset about something?”

“…Yes.” Leareth - kind of thought that would be - obvious? Is he just confused about missing something about why they would assume the situation isn’t upsetting? Is Jisa going to ask him to reflect out loud about why he’s upset, that - he can do it, he will if she asks, but he doesn’t want to.

…..Yeah, that was a stupid question, wasn’t it. “Sorry,” Jisa says.

“I can say more things about it if it would be informative for you,” Leareth says, mostly in one go but after a ten-second awkward silence.

Jisa has finally managed to actually reflect on the situation and notice that, perhaps, it might be mean to Leareth to make him struggle to talk about why being horribly killed and waking up with a lot of sticky damage is upsetting, in front of an entire room full of people.

:- Blai, what do you think? I don’t think I see anything in his mind more damaged than anywhere else, it’s little bits everywhere. I think he had the most trouble that I could see on the turning feelings and intuitions into words and checking that they make sense and won’t be confusing or ambiguous.:

Does Leareth just do that all the time. Jisa is pretty sure she says confusing and ambiguous things all the time without thinking very hard about it! 

:That... might be Wisdom, but could be Splendor? I would not normally expect someone to be so impaired by reduced Splendor but if it were very low indeed perhaps:

:I mean, I think everything is affected and he’s just going to need more Restorations and I’m sure it’s worth it, I’m just - for right now I need to pick one thing - what else would be affected by Splendor, that I can ask him about?:

:...I'm not myself very Splendid and have not worked with many sorcerers, who cast from it. Confidence? Assertiveness and - sway over others - I don't think it counts that he's recusing himself, directly, but -: