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Normally she'd be at the convention right now, but it's still closed for the next few days. The temple doesn't need her healing, especially since she's trying to save more of it for any future emergencies, and it'd be particularly silly to track people down to talk politics while they're at the palace, so instead she's at the Cafe Isarn doing music. It might not be her regularly scheduled hours, but she really appreciates the ability of singing to keep her focused on anything other than all the horrible thoughts about what they're going to do to Valia.
I'd say this is her core competence but actually she didn't last a week
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And a unrecognizable wizard in Her Majesty's livery floats down and says to her conversation partner with a terrifying smile, "I would not recommend agreeing to smuggle people out of the country." Shrink Item. Back home.
"Delegate Rivera?" says a remarkably kind and trustworthy woman subjectively a second later in the dungeons of the palace.
She knows what charm person is, thanks, she used it a bunch herself before she got good enough to not need it. This doesn't help one iota in resisting it, of course, but there's more than one way to plan ahead.
"Yes?"
She's terrified, of course, but projecting enough confidence over it to fool most chelish people.
Song-sorcerers, can't trust any impression you have of them. It's fine.
"The Crown's prosecutor's office is investigating whether you were involved in the riots on the 3rd of Sarenith. When we tried to find you, you attempted to flee the country. Where were you headed? Andoran? Absalom?"
"Andoran, ma'am." The lie is much harder to spot in her voice but her mind betrays her with a flickering thought of another city.
"Did you help Valia Wain attempt to start a peasant rebellion against the lords of Cheliax, or was that all her idea?"
"I thought I could escape if I was quick about it."
She's still not completely sure how she got captured but wizard seems like a safe guess.
"No one gets away if the Queen wants them found. Why not just tell us that you didn't help Valia plot rebellion, and didn't participate in the riots, and did no murder and no arson and no theft and no other crimes?"
"I didn't want to get raped or tortured or executed, and you wouldn't have believed me if I said it anyway."
"Have you killed anyone since you came to Westcrown for the convention?"
"Have you participated in helping other people kill someone, or make a plan to kill someone, or conceal having killed someone?"
"Have you burned down any buildings, or helped anyone burn down any buildings, or helped anyone plan any arson, or helped anyone conceal any arson?"
"No."
That one might technically not be true, since it's a broad enough question to encompass the war, but neither her face nor her thoughts give any sign of it and she's pretty sure she could get it past a truth spell.
"Have you taken anything that wasn't yours, since you arrived in Westcrown for the convention?"
"Are you the person who made and distributed copies of Valia's speech?"