Well the problem there is that the thread which got cut NO LONGER matches the loops Thellim was searching for.

...Can she just scan for stuff in Vanyel's mind that got Mindhealed within the last few minutes?  Places that had previously been Mindhealed looked distinct to Melody; and if objects in the brain can be marked as modified, it would be only natural for them to have tiny timestamps showing how recently they were modified.

Well the problem there is that the thread which got cut no longer matches the loops Thellim was searching for.

...Can she just scan for stuff in Vanyel's mind that got Mindhealed within the last few minutes?  Places that had previously been Mindhealed looked distinct to Melody; and if objects in the brain can be marked as modified, it would be only natural for them to have tiny timestamps showing how recently they were modified.