"All the ones we know of - Maron is casting some spells for us, Clepati won’t help, Ahnkamen won’t help, al-Khurrat is recently dead…"

Lilia knows of a couple more. Carlota doesn’t, and nods. “I’ll see you tomorrow, then. …I am much much happier to be engaged to you than I would have expected to be. If it had been anyone else in the world I think one of my first thoughts on learning news like this would’ve been - how to make sure he did the right thing -”

"I am glad that’s not a worry you have, with me."

Carlota works with her guests late into the evening. She’s worried they’ll lose the torturous executions fight and wants to, if they do, at least win the 'who comes out of the torturous executions fight looking good' fight, and she wants to have some Andoran work getting done even if they’re not to act on it until Fireday.

Also she has a wedding to plan! Well, first an engagement party, but then a wedding. She will need a lawyer to draft some nice clear reasonable trend-setting vows, and a theory of illegal orders in marriage, and a venue, and a guest list, and a dress, and otherworldly catering... She should make lunch plans with Isidonia tomorrow to ask for marital advice and backchannel about how the conservative nobles should interpret her marriage. 

She also needs to check if Andira Marusek has any more disruptive idiocy planned and if Megane has any more disruptive idiocy planned, and then she needs to have an intermediary reach out to the Lord Protector to offer him somewhere to flee to. He has his own secret demiplanes whose locations are known to no one, of course. But if he's been watching closely he may have inferred (correctly) that the Queen has some demiplane-targeting that isn't defeated by Mind Blank, and Lilia Ramona de Montero has unique credibility as someone that the archmages would absolutely have looked for and who would absolutely not be alive if they'd found her. She can offer him help evading them in exchange for an outlandishly large bribe.

He probably won't take her up on it - she should really have been laying the groundwork a while ago, to pull it off - but it's worth a shot. Naturally if he takes her up on it she will collect the bribe, split it with Norgorber for the false Commune answer that she'll probably need for this plan to work, and betray him to her mother.

Then - and this was not on the original schedule - she spends an hour having a quiet fight with herself.

You know some Gate-capable people the Church doesn't know about?

There is a ninth circle cleric of Gorum who goes around trophy-hunting in the most dangerous reaches of Arcadia. The Church probably doesn't know about her because Avistan doesn't have anything interesting for her to punch; she's never tried the Worldwound because she dislikes cold weather. Lilia only knows about her because she spent some of Asmodeus's Communes tracking every ninth circle spellcaster in the world.

So pick up the mirror and tell Riudare about her. I bet she'd be persuadable to help fight Mephistopheles.

All right, let's make a couple of things clear here. You do not know about the ninth circle cleric of Gorum. Inasmuch as you have formed opinions about the ninth circle cleric of Gorum that's - carelessness, because I was distracted and infected my Carlota persona with information she did not have. 

You also don't know about me. 'you petitioning me to talk to Riudare' is utterly incoherent. 

It's not that implausible for Montero, on receiving this report from the Queen, to decide to do the Iomedaens a favor and tell them about a cleric they missed. 

Yes! It is! She doesn't do the Iomedaeans favors!

They're the people fighting to stop Mephistopheles from controlling a country on the Material! That's absolutely the sort of plan she might have betrayed to them in order to stop it, when she was working for the Thrunes! And under these circumstances they can't trust that Lilia's mother has it handled, because she and her allies cut some kind of complicated deal with Mephistopheles probably related to the coup in Hell -

Carlota doesn't know anything about a coup in Hell. It is sometimes helpful to get Carlota's commentary on things that Lilia is working on, because she comes at things from a different angle, but Lilia's going to have to make it stop if Carlota can't keep the lines straight between the things Lilia knows and the things Carlota knows.

Carlota observes that Lilia is trying to relate to one of her own patterns of thought as an enemy she might need to enslave or intimidate or kill, and this seems like an insane thing to do. 

But also - Carlota observes that she would like to do useful things that matter, with her life, rather than achieve a perfect imitation of the life that Carlota would have led if she returned. If hypothetically that Carlota would have failed to stop Mephistopheles she would still like to stop him. It feels like this is in an important sense truer to who Carlota is, and truer to who Lilia is. When she was the spymaster of Cheliax she made trades, probability of getting caught for changes in the world. She worked quite hard to minimize those trades, to have a second route by which she learned the things she learned, to launder everything she knew, not to unknowingly make any trades. But she was not trying to perfectly emulate a loyal Asmodean including on the inside. She was trying to keep her cover as long as she could while doing things with it. 

Ugh. She'll see if the cleric of Gorum still has the retinue of weaker fighters or if they've all gotten themselves killed (their mortality rate is really shocking) and if any of them are still around they'll get a divine vision telling them to go fight Mephistopheles in Razmiran.

Your initial thought was 'Lilia knows of a couple more'.

Don't push your luck.