Nod. 

...though apparently wondering what a prophecy spell might show going wrong has prompted him to notice one possible route for things to go wrong. :Jisa, do you think the Star-Eyed could - interfere with Brightstar getting a message, if She wanted to sabotage this? He's one of Her people.: 

:The elemental isn't! And - I trust him, he's my brother - it's not a complicated message, anyway, I'm just going to say that I'm fine and you're fine and Blai is fine and Randi should expect a letter from you tomorrow explaining more.: 

...Nod. 

:I'm not sure if it would be more informative to cast it on me or Jisa, but - it's important to me to know if she's going to be in any danger. She's lifebonded to the heir of the Kingdom, she shouldn't be taking any risks.: 

Is Blai going to ask how Brightstar can possibly be Jisa's brother. That would be so awkward. 

Blai has no interest in these people's family relationships, except: :Nothing you said has anything to do with whether the Star-Eyed could interfere with a message, Jisa. If my sister tried to send me an uncomplicated message, the fact that I'm her brother would not even slightly from any angle affect my god's ability to influence the situation and it wouldn't even if this relationship meant she trusted me. I would not expect Iomedae to involve Herself in my correspondence but this is because of Her other characteristics.:

Jisa does not like that thought. 

:I guess maybe even if She can't affect the elemental, She could - make sure he was busy and didn't get the message? But I can just ask him to send a message back, and if we don't hear by midnight or something then Van can Gate to Waymeet to drop off a letter. ...Or I can, I guess, I could do it to a Work Room so people aren't startled. Though I've already done a few Gates today and summoning an elemental is way less tiring.: 

:...I'm worried that's not being paranoid enough about what kinds of thing could go wrong.: 

:Does he know about k'Treva? If he does not, is he being competently prevented from finding out, and if he does, is he the sort of person who will not have an operational constraint* about it to learn that a village devoted to his goddess has been wiped off the map?:

* a feeling, but like, one that matters, albeit only because the person who is having it is not very professional

:He knows. It's not general knowledge in Haven but I wasn't going to keep it from him. ...I wouldn't say he took it well, and he probably still thinks Leareth did it, but it's not a surprise. I don't...think...he would falsify a report to the King on the grounds that he's convinced Leareth did it and doesn't think we should be trying to negotiate?: 

:You know him and I do not. You also know your King and I do not.:

Auuughhhh. 

:...I don't like this plan but I also don't love waiting for the blizzard to end before we send any message at all. And - having one of the White Winds mages react badly to an unexpected Gate in Waymeet also seems like the kind of thing a god could nudge, we're not that far from the Pelagirs.: 

:We can try the prophecy spell and see if it looks like anything goes wrong?: 

Blai nods. :On whom?:

:...Jisa, I think. She's the one who would be sending the message if we go with that plan.: And he's still especially motivated to find out if it's a bad idea for her to be in the north. 

Nod again. "Guidance." In case he needs spellcraft or the spell has some chance of dazing him or something. "Minor Prophecy."

And the most significant event to happen to Jisa personally in the next five days will be: 

Jisa is standing in the middle of a glassy-walled passage apparently carved straight through a mountain, only a dozen paces wide but with its walls rearing high above their head. Snow is landing gently on a shield above them and melting. Vanyel and Yfandes and Stef and Blai are all standing with her.

There's also a...giant white wolf-creature-thing? Its eyes look intelligent. 

Opposite them, a dark-haired man dressed in black is standing beside the woman who did all the enchantments on Blai when he was kidnapped. Blai hasn't actually seen Leareth in person but that's probably him? 

Jisa is looking nervous and like she doesn't know what to do with her hands. "Um, I hope your travel here wasn’t too bad?” 

Vanyel snorts slightly. Leareth just inclines his head. 

"All right. Um, right, so the way this works is - it has to be symmetrical, because each half is the keystone for the other half it can't be taken down by anyone from the outside - and, um, it needs a drop of your blood to power it, but it won't be enough to bother a mage unless you really drain yourself - anyway, if you've both make the same oath not to betray each other then I think we can convince Valdemar that you aren't going to invade." 

Leareth nods. 

Jisa fidgets slightly. "Then let's get this ove–"

At which point there's a ripping screech as an entire wing of gryphons appears from nowhere, presumably from behind some kind of magical veil, to attack the shield over their heads. There's a violent explosion and everything whites out. 

Oh ow that's a lot of information and it's all luminous and blurry, streaks of color and mood and fate and light moving across each other. Wolfcreature, enchanter, plausibly-Leareth, drops of blood for an oath spell, convincing Valdemar, attacking gryphons, explosion. :I - don't know how to render that as a report - uh -: He rubs his eyes a little even though he didn't see it with his eyes. Casts Guidance again. :- uh. The five of us were in an artificial looking mountain pass with a - white dire wolf? - opposite the enchanter I saw while kidnapped and a man with her who might have been Leareth but I have no direct confirmation. Jisa was proposing some kind of spell that wanted a drop of blood from each of - I think the one who was probably Leareth and one of us, I'd guess Vanyel but do not know from the vision alone. Something to - anchor - an oath - to the effect that they would not betray each other, to convince Valdemar no invasion would be in the offing - and then gryphons attacked? And there was an explosion?:

What.

What.

What– oh that's brilliant actually, when he was going to think of that. Is Vanyel relaying for him in the Mindspeech link so Blai will - oh good he is. 

:I really should contact the kyree clan! I - sort of half thought of it earlier - we're really close to their territory and I have a talisman to call them. Actually, they might be able to pass a message for us too, so we have more redundancy in case something goes wrong with one of the other messages.: 

Is Blai okay, that looked - slightly disruptive in the way that you would expect a god touching someone's mind to be - though it looks like he's recovering from it fine, probably? 

:Apparently I - invent an oath spell? Sometime in the next few days. Um. I have no idea how I make that work or why a drop of blood would help. I was - thinking through if you could make the vrondi do something like that, but it wouldn't be any more stuck on than a compulsion, which any other mage can just take off again...: 

:Apparently Iftel attacks us! I. Um. That - sounds hopeful with regards to negotiations with Leareth being a good idea - but it seems pretty bad if Vkandis is sending His secret army after us to try to stop us from doing that!: 

:You should maybe consider warning Leareth that Iftel has a secret Vkandis army. He might not know that.: 

:Blai, are you all right? That looked, um, disorienting.: 

:It was a bit. I don't think it was much worse than looking at something very powerful and Chaotic with Detect Chaos, which I've done before. I would be very surprised if there were any long term effects.:

:That's what it looks like to me too, but if you have a headache Van probably has willowbark.: