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Rank has some privileges in Valdemar. Savil normally eats at the Heralds' dining hall except if she's having supper with company, but she can summon a servant - quietly shooing Blai back to the guest room first - and call for a generous breakfast. Bread and butter, eggs, cheese, some fruit on the side. 

She leaves him there and heads out. 

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It's nice that there's plenty since they forgot to give him dinner and he blew his Create Food so he couldn't make it himself. He eats up.

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Leareth receives the report shortly before midnight the night before. Many candlemarks after the major events, of course, but this is how long it takes his spy on the Palace laundry staff to follow up on every rumor and local information source she can - including a number of other agents with varying degrees of awareness of who they worked for - conclude that this calls for an urgent in-person report, and then get herself safely out of Haven to a cache location, burn a one-time communication artifact usable without mage-gift on signaling for urgent pickup, via a Gate from a shielded underground room. Any mage-energy signature that leaks through should be disguised by the small forest fire she sets first. 

She's only been in place for around a year, but she has quite a few advantages; she's unsuspicious, convincingly giving the impression of a gossipy middle-aged washerwoman because for most of her life she's been exactly that. She also has a very weak Gift of Touchreading, rare enough that Valdemar doesn't currently know how to test for or recognize it. It's best understood as a specialized form of Foresight; she can touch objects and, if something emotionally significant enough happened recently enough, catch a glimpse of events surrounding the person previously in possession of said item. 

She's touched a lot of objects today, most of which told her nothing or only almost-certainly-irrelevant snippets, but they included a desk and some books from a clerk's office, and also Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron's Whites, which she finagled to pick up from the House of Healing for laundering. 

Her report contains a small number of hard facts known with high confidence – there was definitely an attack on the Queen of Karse and her daughter at the Ice Festival, it was definitely a Changecreature – and quite a lot of word-of-mouth tidbits of less trustworthy accuracy, like the claim that a man miraculously Healed over a dozen badly wounded soldiers at once without touching them. Then there are the very large number of confusing observations that may or may not be possible to piece together into a picture. The spy has no idea what most of it means, but diligently recorded everything that could possibly be relevant.

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