:Oh. Would you like to go home?: 

Yes! Definitely! - also vengeance? But honestly vengeance seems less important than getting to go home, if that's on the table.

:I am going to send you home now, I promise. Give me a moment to plan it, please: 

:Yfandes, ask the others if there's a way to send elementals back without, um, murdering them? This one came through the portal rather than being summoned, it's been trapped the whole time: 

Yfandes asks. 

" - that might mean we should not kill it, if it's actually here and not just projecting itself here as with a summoning. Uh, I can Plane Shift but not today and Plane Shift sends me too."

:All right, I'm definitely not going to kill it then! Um, if Fazil Plane Shifts there, can he get back again?: 

This is relayed. 

"It's riskier than the thing Mahdi was suggesting where we try to get to Velgarth by going over Air but in principle if I prepared for it and the elemental is going to behave itself - are there others, too - I can have an air bubble up and Plane Shift right out again, sure. - and then land anywhere within five hundred miles of here, because Plane Shift is terrible at targeting."

Vanyel thinks that he might be able to do shielding on the bubble, too, to make it a little safer against roughhousing. 

He relays this plan to the elemental. :Do you think that could work, and the other water elementals would let him come back again? I'm afraid it'd have to be tomorrow, he doesn't have the magic for it today, I'm sorry about that: 

The water elemental thinks meatpeople are DISHONORABLE. Slam!

Mahdi reaches out to take Vanyel's arm for the teleport.

:I thought I could send you home myself a different way but I was wrong, I'm sorry: He's super not going to say that the different way was murder. :We'll be back tomorrow, if you still want to go home then: 

And ready for teleport. 

And they're back on the sands aboveground with Yfandes. It's way too hot. "It ruined the paintings," he says regretfully.

"I thought about trying to shield them too but it seemed like not the highest priority. Wow, it was difficult to negotiate with! Although if it's been trapped in there for thousands of years, I can't really blame it, it must be really traumatized. I'm so glad I didn't kill it, though, since it's really here and would've been dead-dead." 

"Yeah, that'd have sucked."

"If we're going to the Elemental Plane of Water I'm going to want Air Bubble and Freedom of Movement and two Plane Shifts and Water Breathing just in case and Hagan to stay here and figure out whether you can retrieve our bodies, if we don't make it back -"

"That sounds like definitely the kind of problem you can send a snake and some arrows at."

"I can prepare a couple of Silent Air Bubble in case it gets popped but I don't actually think I have anything that saves us if you slip up on the second Plane Shift. - Van can you do your imitation pearl of power thing with fifth level divine spells, I assume not but it'd sure be convenient -"

"...I don't see why not? The one I did before took barely any power, I could do twenty times that from reserves - I'll make sure I'm all filled up on node-energy before we do. I suppose we should test that it works on divine spells period?" 

"I'd kind of expect it not to because it's a different source of magic? But we could try - hmm - Lesser Restoration -" 

Vanyel starts out watching the spell with mage-sight, but is momentarily distracted by the fact that he's suddenly no longer tired. He wasn't exhausted or suffering backlash from the not-fight, but it wasn't that far off, and now he feels fine. 

"Whoa! Wait, you can just - fix magical fatigue? Why didn't you say that?" 

" - did I not? Uh, divine healing doesn't just do injuries and illnesses, it also does conditions whether acquired magically or not."

"Sorry, one second, let me see if I can do this first and then I'll ask you more questions." He focuses on mage-sight again, hunting to see if the ghostly outline of the spell-form is still anywhere to be found. 

It is not. Fazil can restore the spell with a pearl of power to show how it does that, but it's much harder to see what it's doing than it was with Mahdi's spell; most of the work seems to be happening in the holy symbol, inconveniently.

Sigh. "I think you might be right, and this is a different kind of magic mine can't work with in the same way. Sorry. Anyway. If you can do a spell that makes someone not tired anymore, that would increase my endurance in a fight by a lot. I don't run out of spells the way you do, the problem is that I get tired and then I get backlash."