"Our resurrections, I would hope."

"Maybe those too."

:Thank you for being willing to stay: Leareth tells Hagan, privately. :I think he really should not be alone here and you seem - quite good at being reassuring to him: 

"We ought to plan a time for tomorrow, then," he says out loud.

"Do you want to go coordinate that with your people? We'll both be ready about an hour after dawn."

"I will do that." 

He Gates out to the buried Palace again to try contacting Velgarth. Presumably the pharaoh has a very good crystal ball, and probably he wouldn't even spy on the resulting conversation and it wouldn't be that damaging if he did, but still. 

The buried Palace also has a very good crystal ball and it'd be very hard to spy on him here.

He tries for Nayoki with it. 

Nope.

His spymaster? 

Also no, this time.

Leareth sighs and tries the next person on his mental list, one of the mage-scholars he works with regularly. 

This one works.

Leareth updates the somewhat startled mage-scholar, gives a very approximate arrival time, asks for some records and artifacts to be ready to collect. Catches up on news from Valdemar, which is limited - they've moved a lot of Heralds on the border and there have been some Guard movements as well, but nothing past the border, which is a good sign. 

He can't scry anyone in Haven himself, not having met the Senior Circle. Hopefully Vanyel will at some point recover enough to check on that before something completely explodes. 

They prep for a trip. He prepares three of Invisibility (it doesn't show to mage-sight any more than to Detect Magic) and Fly, and Feather Fall since they're responsible people planning to fly - Comprehend Languages so he can tell what's going on, though it's not worth the higher-level slot for Tongues - asks Fazil to do Air Bubble since this is taxing his spell slots and he doesn't actually want to be unprepared for a fight if one somehow comes up - three Teleports, miscellaneous combat or utility magic for emergencies -

"I think we should use the rod of Extend Spell on the invisibility rather than the flight," he says when they've gathered, "but if anyone disagrees I don't feel that strongly."

"Does the Feather Fall mean that we would start falling but slowly? I suppose even if we land over somewhere dangerous and for some reason cannot teleport out, falling slowly while invisible buys us more time than suddenly appearing in midair." 

"Feather Fall descends you at six miles an hour," he confirms. "It'd be inconvenient but I think being visible would be worse."

"It makes sense to me. How long does that give us on flight, then - nine minutes?" 

"Yes. Ideally you cast your spell to determine if we're in striking range of your fortress, and if not whether we're in striking range of a known safe location, and then we go there."

"Determining our exact location will be annoying if I do not recognize the terrain but determining distance is fast - I will try to contact someone with my communication-spell, which drains more power at greater distances. How does targeting for the teleports work; do I need to try to share my memory of the place with Mindspeech? If so I should probably share a backup option as well now rather than needing to do so in a rush." 

"That'd be safest. I can do it from a map or from a sketch but with a higher miss rate."

Leareth shows him the Gate-arrival room in the northern facility where Nayoki is, and then one of his records caches in the south and another in the east. If they end up too far away from the north, he'll need to triangulate their actual approximate position on the map in order to pick east or south, since there's no one he can contact in the records locations - he has people he can contact east and south of Valdemar to compare distances, but doesn't know their exact locations and it wouldn't be safe to land there anyway. (They're spies.) 

Makes sense. 

And when they're all ready, they can soar up in the air above the winter palace and link hands and he can jump them.

They're in the air in a different place! It looks greener below.

Reach out and out with the communication spell. <Nayoki?>

<Leareth! You are back and safe?>