That's already pretty reassuring! Jisa stops and sits with her back to a big tree; she doesn't think he's noticed her, he seems pretty absorbed in his chess game, though presumably Van knows she's there and is letting her concentrate. 

Can she see where the yanking happened? Whether or not they put it back later, it seems informative if they were trying to shift around his...core motivations, way of thinking...or just blocking him from taking actions or using magic, which would be a lot more contained to only a few parts of his mind, though the effect could could ripple more widely if access to his magic is emotionally loadbearing for him or something. 

Doesn't look like they touched his core motivations. Does look like access to his magic is emotionally loadbearing; he's got irrigation set up in there that looks like it could turn into a flashback on short notice for that among other reasons. There's compulsion aftereffects, which may have done more trellis-yanking than any Mindhealing that happened to him.

Jisa is not actually experienced at examining the aftereffects-to-Mindhealing-Sight of someone being interrogated under compulsions, though she has seen aftereffects on someone questioned under a coercive Truth Spell who had a very bad time with it. She has to spend a while staring at it and puzzling out what probably happened. 

:He's clear: she tells Vanyel. :I don't think they even tried to alter his motivations or do anything to his memory. They used something that wasn't Mindhealing and probably had effects similar to a second-stage Truth Spell but - cruder - I think that was harder on him than the Mindhealing, but you'd be able to see if there was any trace left. Someone picked out a set-command but it was really cleanly done.: She still can't do it that neatly, though partly because it rarely comes up to practice. Her mindvoice is faintly impressed. 

Great. Now he can be angry instead if terrified. :Jisa, what are you DOING here? What were you thinking?: 

Aaaaaand here they go. 

:You asked for a Mindhealer. You did it in a way that only made sense if you were worried about it being known. I guessed– well, I actually thought you'd rescued him somehow, but - I can do a lot more than Melody can. I'm also not exactly defenseless. And I thought you couldn't be expecting it to be that dangerous, if you wanted Melody, who can't even fight.: 

:Jisa, it's entirely possible this is a trap. I just - I thought Melody would agree with that risk, if there was also a chance we could stop the war.: 

:...Because you think Leareth might be telling the truth.: 

:It's hard to believe I'm really thinking that, but - yes. I'm confused, Jisa. I have been since the start.: 

:It’s really confusing! But Savil thought it was impossible that Leareth could take down k’Treva from the inside. I think we should've taken that more seriously from the beginning. And - I mean, if Blai had done it, and we weren't ever going to believe that, don't you think Leareth would've been right to get him out of Haven? Which in case you've forgotten also has a Heartstone?: 

Vanyel had not forgotten that, no. 

:And if this was a trap it'd be a stupid one. I don't think Leareth can do literally anything he wants, that's giving him too much credit, but - you're in the north with just Stef. If he wanted you dead or captured I don't see why it would even be hard.: 

And if he wanted Valdemar conquered, it already would be. 

That's another piece of the message in sending Feniss. Leareth doesn't need to do complicated scheming to buy time. He could probably have moved five years ago, if he wanted, and - that would have been the smart thing to do, if he already knew he was eventually going to one way or another. Valdemar still has no hope of winning, but the alliances they've made will make his victory more expensive. 

In a sense, Leareth isn't planning to fight Valdemar at all. The resources he's set up are massively overkill for that. He's worried about the gods trying something, that's the part he wanted to overdetermine, and - the ways the gods could interfere probably wouldn't be very nice for Valdemar either. 

Or for Vanyel

Oh, he should really have asked for this sooner. :Jisa, check Leareth's messenger for Mindhealing work as well? The woman with us.: 

Jisa should probably have thought to ask about that sooner! She hadn't been reading her mind because it's unethical to do that on no justification, but she can do it now. 

:- Clear. Moreso than him, I don't think a Mindhealer's touched her in her entire life. ...Er, there's some disruption that could be from long-term compulsions being taken off.: 

There are parts of the woman's garden where it looks like some dividing slats were taken down, they've left marks behind, and she's clearly not used to it and keeps self-consciously poking at it. 

:She was under compulsions not to talk about work to anyone not cleared for it. Apparently it's standard, she agreed to it, but - I guess Leareth didn't want me to have anything to get alarmed about, and he gave her orders to tell us anything we want to know.: 

Jisa doesn't think she needs to say that this would be a baffling thing to do if Leareth was still planning to invade. Even if he wanted to stall, he could have sent someone who didn't know any of his secrets except the exact message. 

:...I need to either get back before tomorrow morning or send a message. But I think it's worth me staying long enough to talk through what we know. And you should tell Blai he's fine so he knows he doesn't have to be stressed about it.: Though playing chess against himself is apparently a very effective way for him to manage stress. 

If Leareth might be telling the truth, then he's not sure he wants Jisa in Haven. Where there's a Heartstone. ...He's also not sure he wants her here, but - she's probably right that most of the risk in coming at all was in the first thirty seconds. 

They do need to talk about it. And he can run it by Blai as well, now that they're not worried about trusting his advice. 

:Blai? We've confirmed there's no active Mindhealing effects on you. - the Mindhealer I called checked from a little ways off to avoid warning you in case you were compromised. But you're fine. She's coming over now.: 

Jisa emerges from the trees. :Heya. ...You have a really neat mind, I hope that's not a weird thing to say.: 

:...do I? I've been told it's unpleasant.:

What, that's such a rude thing to tell someone. Who would even say that. 

:No! ...I mean, your surface thoughts can be - kind of a lot - but in Mindhealing Sight you have this beautiful trellis thing. I can bounce it to you if you want to see what it looks like to me?: 

:A... trellis thing... yes, thank you.:

:Like this!: 

She'll push it across to him in Mindspeech. 

:...Sorry, Mindhealing Sight is kind of confusing if you're not used to it, but - see, everything's attached to it - and it looks like you used to have a different one and I'm really curious about that but it's none of my business if you don't want to talk about it - I thought it was something your god put there at first, because I've never seen anyone else whose mind is structured like that except it's a tiny bit like what Companions have - but I think it's not that, I think the parts your god has anything to do with are just here and here: Basically just the procedural-memory interface linked up to his not-Gifts god-magic, which she can't see directly though she wonders if she could follow it with mage-sight. 

:Those are probably my spells, casting them is instinctive even if I prepare one I've never seen or cast before.

I - don't know if my guess about it is right - if it is 'a different one' would be not quite the -: Chelish people are great at controlling their facial expressions but he has less practice with mindvoice and he's embarrassed about it.

Jisa is soooooo curious but you do not push people to share things about their minds when they're embarrassed about it, that's so rude. 

:I might be interpreting it wrong. It just looks new, to my Sight, it's all - shiny - and, this bit has clearly been there for a really long time and doesn't make any sense if there wasn't a trellis to grow on, but - see how something was disrupted around here, and then this bit looks like it's still growing in...: She will try to focus clearly on the relevant areas while she's bouncing it to him. 

:I think the trellis is Law.: