He had not quite got around to having a conversation with Delegate Tallandria when the convention took an abrupt and lengthy recess. He was going to wait for his political reputation to be clearer, or at least less top-of-mind.
On the morning of Sarenith 5, he decides to go looking. She did him a favor, and she ought to know he intends to pay it back. He is no longer anyone's primary problem, he might as well start doing things again.
The Palace is not housing anyone by her name. He is able to get someone to confirm she checked in as alive. (He had to bribe them for this, on both counts. Which is lawless, but he can't even be mad. He might order his guards to require bribes and then report the amounts and bribers, if he was organizing security for this, given this past week. Mobs and counter-mobs aren't much good at paying bribes.)
Where should he look? He read the committee transcripts - probably slightly garbled - and Tallandria is extremely enthusiastic about the right to read. She'll be getting pamphlets.
He asks at the Cafe, but Citizen Queralt is either unfamiliar or uninterested in sharing; he's a very good liar, for a foreigner. But there are networks of distributors, and chasing them back to their source isn't that hard, if you know the city pretty well. Urchins are easy to bribe, and peacefully being a wizard and asking polite questions of the urchin-masters with marginally larger bribes is fairly effective.
"I'm looking to talk to another Delegate Korva Tallandria. Woman, early twenties, stud here, eyebrow ring here, usually a headband, roundish face, narrow eyebrows. Do you deliver to her?", he says a dozen times before there's a glimmer of recognition, and then a dozen more before it's an honest one.
But after a couple days, he finds one. who recognizes the description. He's commendably protective of the precise addresses of his clients, but he accepts a short letter, paid half on confirmation she received it.
Delegate Tallandria,
I'd like to speak with you, if you're amenable. You did me a favor, and I'm grateful for it. I can be found in the Rego Sacero in the Plaza Goya, though my temple is presently closed; I am likely to be present whenever there isn't a notable trial to attend, and can promise being home from an hour before dusk. If you'd prefer, send a message with a place I ought to find you. If not, I suppose I'll see you when the convention resumes.
Yours,
Delegate Theopho Lebanel