Jisa puts her head down with Stef for a while, and then asks Fëanáro if he's available to help them talk through ideas. 

He is available. That - doesn't sound like a promising situation for a rescue, though.

:It's not. But - it does give us a way to get in. Probably without getting caught. Stef, explain your trick?: 

I can use a Bardic effect to do something like shield, Stef explains in osanwë (Jisa can still pick it up with Thoughtsensing). It'll make me seem very boring and it makes disguises very convincing, and mages can't detect it at all. Sauron knows Valdemar has Bards but it doesn't seem like he finds them very interesting. If we also have a contact and we can camp out in a merchant wagon...

:I can conceal my mage-gift: Jisa adds. :Actually, I can hide all of my Gifts, I was trying to figure out if I could make that one look like potential-only by directly shutting down that part of my mind with Mindhealing, and it seems like I can. Another Mindhealer would recognize it but there were only five in all of Valdemar and Telumë doesn't have any evidence Sauron is using them. That'll get us past the Border guards. I'll need to alter my appearance, Maitimo at least knows what I look like, but most of the others who would recognize me are dead. So cutting and colouring my hair differently and maybe giving myself a scar or two ought to do it: 

And you can Gate out, presumably, if you're fast enough.

:Yes. I'll practice beforehand, I need to get the hang of doing a threshold-less Gate really really fast. But Sauron won't have any reason to be near us if he doesn't know I'm a mage until five seconds before I'm gone. And...: She closes her eyes. :If we Gate to k'Treva, then that gives us a backup plan for killing Maitimo, if it turns out we can't get in close enough to take him alive. Just have to send one of their mages through and have them Final Strike. Moondance, probably, he'd - find it a relief at this point: 

You'd have to get right up to his face to stand a chance at taking him alive, right -

:Yes. In particular there'd have to be no mage-shielding in the way and we're pretty sure he spends his time in shielded places. But we might not have to get in to one of them. Stef and I, er, discovered at some point: she wills herself not to turn red, it's still a very embarrassing memory, :that most shielding doesn't bother to do anything about either Bardic Gift or Mindhealing Sight. Mindhealing because it's too rare, no one's ever bothered to invent a shield to block it entirely, and Bardic because it's not supposed to have Sight in the first place. And I've, um - I might've peeked at his mind with my Sight once or twice. I could recognize him just from that, and Stef's met him, more importantly he's sung for him, he could pick his presence out via Bardic Gift echoes. That means we can find out where he is: 

It seems very risky to walk into a temple of Vkandis even if you are well disguised and they cannot detect your Gifts.

I kind of agree with that. Bardic Gift can be convincing but I don't think I could convince him to walk outside from the other side of a wall:

:And we can't compulsion him into walking outside because there will be mage-shielding. I mean, I think we might not be able to anyway, first of all because I'm not any good at compulsions yet - you'd think having Mindhealing would help, but I think it's a fine control thing, same reason I can't do good illusions yet. And I don't think we have six months to spare so that I can practice more: 

And Telumë thinks he'll be taking a lot of precautions against compulsions, Stef points out. Given how well he knew Leareth's, er, methods. Then he gets a speculative look. Wait. The reason you think Mindhealing would help with learning compulsions is that it can do similar things, right? 

:...Yes: Curious look. 

If your Sight can get through shields, can you actually do Mindhealing to someone through shields as well? Because I don't think he'd be expecting that, or have specific precautions against it.

:He might know set-commands are a thing, I'm not sure if Melody ever used that on Leareth, or offered to. But he's less likely to take precautions against it just because - I'm not sure how you would. Given that there doesn't exist a shielding technique in the first place: 

So what are the chances you could Mindhealing-compulsion him into walking outside where we can grab him? 

:...I couldn't be very precise. I can't See well, just, at all. But I guess 'walk outside' doesn't need to be precise. And if he hasn't had Mindhealing used on him before then he won't know what it feels like:

If he suspects anything is off he can send Sauron for both of you before you'd know it didn't work.

:I can literally see his mind: Jisa points out. :Not content of thoughts, but 'suspects something' ought to be clear in the structure. I've had plenty of experience with Quendi minds at this point: 

He frowns. All right. And if that happens you Gate to a prearranged place in K'Treva where Moondance is waiting -

:Yes. That'd be the plan. Moondance is an Adept, his Final Strike ought to take out any shielding in the way, and Quendi aren't that much tougher than humans: 

It seems worth trying.

Treven nods. Looks unhappy. :Jisa, and if you suspect they're onto you - even if you haven't made it to Haven yet - you're going to Gate out right away: 

:I mean, yes. Obviously? This isn't a suicide mission: She rolls her eyes. :That's Van's thing, not my thing: