"Well, you don't have to come back from Westpool, if you don't want to, but I wouldn't be much more help to you past that point."

She could leave. She could run off to Westpool, she could try and flee to Andoran or Galt or Lastwall — she doesn't actually know much of anything about Lastwall but Valia is cool so maybe it would be okay even though everyone in Lastwall is Lawful. Probably it wouldn't be worth the Crown sending a teleporting enchanter after her, if they're not planning to execute her.

And if she leaves, especially if Valia is executed but even if she's not, there'll be one fewer person on the committees saying no one should be able to get away with rape even if they're a noble or turning people into undead is wrong or it's wrong to punish innocent people just because the Queen is mad at them.

"I think — maybe I'll change my mind when I've slept, but I think I want to stay. And probably I should move, so that it's harder for anyone to track me down, and if someone kills me the first day back that'll suck, but — lots of things are dangerous and still worth doing."

"Okay. Double up in my room at the palace or someplace else?"

"I could try to stop a casual attempt to kill you if I was there but if the nobles try hard enough they can just kill me too, I'm not that strong of an adventurer. That's why I suggested the temple, because if they send armed guards in to murder someone there it'll absolutely be a scandal even if they're a noble. But I think the palace might also work since them killing you there would be embarrassing to the queen and with two of you there they probably can't do it quietly."

"If there's nobles staying at the palace then probably the temple's better? If they'd still let me stay there even though I — channel negative."

"Yes, of course they would. Even if they thought you were evil - that's what Lady Shelyn is about, helping evil people become good, it wouldn't make sense to throw people out until they've already succeeded. They'd be happy to have you do water if you wanted to but you wouldn't have to do that either if you don't."

"I can do water. Or, I'm not sure if I can do water today, I'm not sure how that works with the not sleeping and the not praying for spells because I didn't know it was dawn. But I can do water tomorrow and all the days after that."

Then once they've finished covering everything they need to Alicia can take Victoria to lady Shelyn's temple and get her a room in the back to lie down in. Hopefully this isn't just a cruel trick to get them dragged back into the jail tomorrow and mocked for their naivety.

She asks someone to wake her up in time for Valia's trial, if that ends up being today, and then curls up in bed and (somewhat to her surprise) manages to fall asleep.