"Hey. I think we should figure out what to say. The broad outline is, you are from a lawful good country in another world, and you were summoned here by a magic accident, and you know they are afraid that your summons here was enemy action, and you think it almost certainly wasn't but want to get them Heaven's support in case you're wrong about that, and send them proof that you're in another world because you realize it's such an absurd claim. And we want to tell Valdemar that the archon you are sending is a representative of its own world, though a messenger, not anyone qualified to negotiate. That our gods are negotiating with your gods for safe passage of peoples between our worlds. That - and I can swear to this, to the archon, though it doesn't have enchantment sight itself - you are not under any magical enchantments, and not in immediate danger, and will take whatever steps necessary to expedite your return - with powerful allies - if Valdemar is in danger, though it'd be better to wait for the accord between our respective gods."

"We should have something prepared for if they ask us to return Vanyel, or even just ask after him. And decide how much we are willing to share as an explanation for why he is not back already, since obviously transport between the worlds is possible." 

"I'm hoping that won't be obvious, actually? You can send an archon lots of places you cannot go yourself."

"Have it explain that we have a way of getting Vanyel to Valdemar which also requires bringing some of our people. Our gods have recommended against us coming to your world until they're done with negotiations, which should be soon. If it's an emergency we can ignore them and come sooner than that, but we would like to wait for the god-negotiations. Vanyel also might be able to develop an interworld Gate he can do himself, in which case we'd help him in Fazil's capacity as a painkiller, but he doesn't have it yet. Probably the god-negotiations will finish sooner."

Vanyel sits a little more upright. "I think we should have it share that upfront, rather than - hoping they don't ask. I'm scared it'll just be worse if it looks like the archon is trying to be evasive." 

"Are archons even capable of being evasive? When I spoke to the pharaoh, it sounded like the outsiders of that kind were - not that skillful at understanding or communicating with humans." 

"There are a bunch of different kinds but I'm not powerful enough to summon most of them. We probably want a lantern archon, because it's comfortably within my power and can teleport at will and demonstrate some other minor magic. They are not very sophisticated. We should explain to the archon the situation and expect it to say all of what we explained."

" - then we should also explain to it that we did not have any way at all to reach Velgarth even in an emergency until very recently when our gods provided it. So it looks less like we could've gone back the whole time and just didn't bother."

"Yeah." He's taking notes. "I don't think the archon will come across as evasive, lantern archons are - well, you'll see once it gets here - kind of childlike in some ways -"

"That is a good clarification. Will the archon be able to take questions they ask and relay that back to us afterward?" 

"Yes. The armies of Heaven use them as messengers, they have an excellent memory for that and won't make any mistakes."

"That is useful." 

Leareth, with Vanyel's sort-of-help, tries to list out more information that Haven is likely to ask about, or that will seem more cooperative to offer upfront. 

"And now unfortunately you should leave the room, because it will notice immediately you are evil and be worried. Once we've briefed it, I'll Plane Shift it to Velgarth - invisible, to be safe - and come right back, and it can Teleport itself to whatever location Vanyel sends it. - it doesn't have Mahdi's range restriction, it can go directly there even if it lands many thousands of miles away."

"All right. Well, good luck, I suppose." Leareth nods to all of them and ducks out. 

It takes him ten minutes of silent prayer and then there is a - warm glowing sphere of light, about chest-height. 

"Hi! Wow, are these offerings for me? You must have a big mission!"

"We do, it's really important. There are some people who we want to send proof that Golarion is real..." and he explains.

"I see - you really couldn't mistake it for a human." Vanyel can send the archon a memory of Haven to teleport to. 

Then about fifteen minutes after that a glowing ball will appear in Haven!

"Hi!" it will say to the nearest person in whatever their native language happens to be. "I have an important message for the Heraldic Circle! Do you know where I could find them?"

The nearest person is a random Palace gardener, who nearly jumps out of his skin. "I - what - how are you talking?" It's a ball of light. It looks sort of like a mage-light, which the gardener has seen before, but those definitely don't talk. 

"I am a lantern archon, a messenger spirit of the forces of Law and Good. I have an ability called truespeech that lets me speak to everybody in a language they understand. I can talk directly in your head if you would prefer that." :I have an important message for the Heraldic Circle! Do you know where I could find them?:

"Ack!" The gardener has never been Mindspoken to and didn't know it was possible if you don't have Mindspeech yourself and is now pretty alarmed. Then again, the thing he would normally do about weird magic showing up is tell the Heralds anyway, and this weird magic wants to talk to them, so he might as well. "I, um, I...guess...come with me this way?" 

"Thank you!" The light flutters somehow expressively and follows, bobbing a little bit as it goes.

A very anxious Palace gardener hurries to the central meeting wing and inside, and knocks on a door.

The door opens. "What."