[Yuan doesn't dare let it cut into his work time. So his sleep suffers, here and there, and he wakes earlier to get more things done, and sleeps like a stone save for errands on his rest days. It won't be forever, at first; once the ollamh is done with them, it'll be done and done, and even An-Hei's spite won't be able to controvert that.]

[He is absolutely trying to shield Kratos from the worst of it, however. It is, after all, his responsibility.]

[This particular day Yuan is in the middle of justifying requisitions when Kratos appears again. Ordinarily he simply notes Kratos's presence and relaxes from an instinctive bristling at the imposition of another person, but Kratos has the attitude which implies to Yuan he's waiting for something.]

[Yuan finishes a sentence, surveys to make sure he won't lose the thread of what he was doing, and lays down his work to look a question at Kratos.]

Do you have a message?

[He has no idea he's expected somewhere.]