He will receive this yes! Maybe at some point put the taste of her mouth into his food. that's a terrible idea??? Maybe she'll try it on herself first to see though

Venn is soooo good at being professional in public spaces! She does not noticeably pay him any more or less or different kinds of attention than she did this morning.

She does catch up with Txell - how'd they fare in the snow?

One guy cut himself on a bit of ice but does not seem to have picked up a serious infection before getting it channeled off just now, they're all alive, those two are sick to death of each other and that one is sick to death of all the rest of them and everybody's sleep schedule is fucked and they had two vent holes but could maybe have used twice that many because it was stuffy as hell in their shelter, they're going to sleep here and trudge back with Venn after recombobulating. The Worldwound: It's So Fun.

She winces sympathetically. (She's glad they're okay.) 

She will do her best to get some sleep here also! (Penalties - weird place, other people in the room she is not fully relaxing around because they're stressed. Bonuses - she does like Txell, and also has been so hugged today.) She sleeps alright.

The relative nastiness of this fort relative to Blai's fort is not super obvious when your main tasks are Stew and Sleep.

That's fine. She has a lot to think about. 

Blai himself, of course, joins up with a patrol that came from #18 and walks back to their place with them as soon as is practical.

When she wakes up and feels her magic return, there's something more, there.

She tells Txell and co the good news. "I've got a 3rd circle spell!"

"- sweet, nothing like some wilderness survival to get you that last little bit, huh?"

Venn nods happily. "I felt a bit of something the other morning, so I think the Babau helped more. ...It'll make a big difference with my healing, one of my new spells can fuel my song-sorcery on its own for a while."

Do they need any more healing here since the channels from Commander Artigas? She's got plenty to spare.

They'll take it, but they did just get two third-circle channels.

She's fine topping them off!

And then they can tromp through the rather deep trench other patrols have been creating back toward #11, where the biggest news is that somebody going west also got caught in the storm and had to quinzee and it collapsed and they had to build a new one in a hurry.

Ooof. She winces sympathetically.

Blai will probably be late getting back from #18, so she'll do an extra healing slot here. (Does it look like people need serious healing?)

Little bit of frostbite from the people whose quinzee collapsed but it clears right up with a song.

Blai comes in with a patrol late that night. If you have a supernatural Sense Motive he looks pretty dead on his feet from having done three patrol-legs in the snow in a single day but if you are for example asleep like a sensible person you won't know anything about it.

Venn is asleep like a sensible person and so will not be around to detect this. She went to bed  early enough to be up an hour after dawn, though, and will be in the mess hall flavoring food and chatting with people soon after.

He sleeps and prays and looks pretty much normal when he shows up for porridge!

He's gonna read while he eats but he'll do it next to Venn after a detour to address something that came up overnight with the horses.

She tells him the good news when she sits down. "I'm getting third circle spells now!"

"Oh, congratulations! What are they, do you know yet?"

"I think one of them is the Heroism variant that song-sorcerers get, where it doesn't last as long, but I can tag several people with it. The other is the one I was really hoping for - it makes a musical instrument out of shadow and powers a magical song for as long as it lasts, which works even with the high-powered version of my healing song."

"Do you have much control over that, was your hope efficacious?"

"Usually at least somewhat! I basically always get something I want, though on occasion it's been something I didn't know I wanted before I got it. These two are both things I was looking forward too, though, the song-sorcerer I was backup for has them and they're really useful."

"What are the spells called?"

"Good Hope and Exquisite Accompaniment, respectively."

"This reminds me, the next time you hear from your friends I would like to know whatever they can tell me about what nonstandard cleric spells Iomedeae grants. Or, uh, standard ones that happen to be Good-aligned, I've heard of some of those but probably not all of them. I'm not even sure what my domains are, though I think one of them is just a different subdomain of Law."

Nodnod. "I'll write up a letter." And include their other questions for Marit, she doesn't say, but presumably he can guess. "How were things at #18?"