The speakers crackle with a signal changing, and she's back:

"This is Freedom Radio, and, wow, have we got some updates for you today. First off, as many of you undoubtedly noticed, we missed yesterday's broadcast. I cannot tell you exactly why that happened. I am going to tell you a lot of things that happened yesterday and that some of them may have been relevant to the missing broadcast.

First, Cheliax has declared war on both Andoran and Lastwall. They sent the declaration of war more or less simultaneous with an attack before dawn on Almas, Vigil, and probably also some other places. I'm sure news will keep trickling in over the next few days..."

Oh thank Heaven and Good, she's back.

Luckily, Almas has Felandriel Morgethai, and she doesn't take it very kindly when people mess with her city, and she's a much more impressive archmage than Razmir is. I'm told that she killed him twice in the space of around two minutes, and that after that he decided to go home.

And the Provost is alive. Good. There aren't enough Good powers in the world, and Morgethai is the one Jilia would most like to speak to and ally with.

Arazni cast a silence on Vigil, and everything for ten to twelve miles around, making it approximately impossible for most spellcasters to oppose her. She then stopped time and dismantled the walls she'd built; when time started again, they were falling to rubble. 

If Razmir's attacking you, you can place traps that Disjoin him, you can smite him and shoot at him.

What do you do against that? You pray.

And you hope. But... this would be a different story, if they lost.

And what I'm told Iomedae did when She came out of Heaven was talk to Arazni. Show her what really happened in the Crusade where they fought together, show her how she died, show her how her friends had grieved her, show her that they never stopped hoping they would someday have the strength to save her. And then the Goddess cut Arazni free of Geb.

The bravest person she'd ever seen executed was a maledicted priest of Shelyn. If you didn't count the screams - and there were a lot of them - his last words were 'Nirvana is for everyone.' Repeatedly. Even though after the first time they took away his ability to say it much above a whisper. The Vicar looked incensed that they couldn't impale him and still send his soul to Hell.

It took Jilia a while after that, to understand what he meant. It's just too un-Chelish. But it was this. That Good will help everyone, if they can. Even women who are forced by their monarchs to rule far more cruelly and evilly than they'd wish if they were free.

...For example.

"Iomedae is called the goddess of destroying Evil, but what She did, when She met Arazni, was see that She'd been lied to, and clear all the lies away with the sheer force of the truth, and then invite Arazni to be free, and when Arazni got to choose between being a slave for a lie or living free with the truth She chose to live free. The forces that march on you will destroy you, if we have to, but we would really much rather free you, and our greatest weapon is the fact that we can tell the truth and you can't stand to hear it."

She ducks behind a pillar in her balcony on the main square and punches the air. Yes. That's exactly what she wanted sent over the walls of the Academy tonight. If they haven't silenced the speaker there, that might have made the fight inside the Academy a real contest when it starts.