"Yes. And maybe ask her to search her things for items that might have been placed without her knowledge - actually I should just tell Vanyel that she should not pack the same belongings or clothing for this trip. You can do a Truth Spell, right?" 

"I have never actually done it but in principle I believe so." :Amshalan, how do I do a Truth Spell?:

:You concentrate like this, visualize a blue cloud with eyes - recite this rhyme nine times...: Amshalan walks her through the full instructions for a Truth Spell. It's not all that complicated. 

"Now I know how."

"Perfect!" He kisses the top of her head. "I am trying to think through what other precautions to take. ...Possibly we should ask them to check her for any compulsions, before sending her north?" 

"She'll probably wonder what the fuss is about but we can just tell her, so sure."

"...I hope she is not upset about being dragged into this. Though my impression of her, from what you said, is that she might instead be pleased and excited." 

"Yeah, I'm betting on pleased and excited."

"A good trait to have in a Queen, I think." 

"She's not that much younger than me and I'm planning to be immortal so perhaps it won't come up but it'd let her do a lot of what she was originally, uh, hired for, and it seems good to have somebody down for the heir position even if it doesn't look urgent."

"I agree." 

And he can pass on instructions to Vanyel about the various precautions to take with Dara before he arranges a Gate north for her. 

Vanyel, a while later, confirms that Dara is very confused but taking it with good grace and mostly curious. Melody confirmed she's not under any compulsions - or any god-mind-control, it's fortunate Melody has experience with that - and does not seem to have any planted artifacts among her possessions, though they keep all of it in Haven anyway. Including all her gold. Dara is annoyed about that part and Randi, apparently, eventually placates her by trading her back exactly the same amount of gold and silver from the treasury reserves. 

Randi is very good.

Randi is very good! 

They're going to wait for Vanyel's meetings with the relevant people and Companions, and then the plan is for him and Dara to come back north together. 

Leareth is very slightly nervous about how said meetings are going to go. It mostly doesn't distract him from his work, though. Or from kissing Belrun every time she does something impressive and delightful. 

She is up to a pretty impressive rate on that if he likes incremental improvements in their state of information and technical skill about growing microbes.

He does! 

Meetings happen in Haven. For now the only people being briefed are Randi, Shavri, Savil, Sandra, and of course Dara.  

Afterward, Vanyel contacts Leareth again. <We did it. Er, meeting where I told people about blowing up the moon, I mean. Quick version is it went fine, though that might've just been because people were too shocked to venture opinions just yet. Except Dara. She thinks it's amazing> 

Leareth relays this by Mindspeech to Belrun in her lab. 

:Man, I really like Dara:

"So do I! She sounds so, hmm - so non-stressful. I would not feel it was fraught and delicate explaining complicated reasoning about our choices of plans to her." 

When Dara arrives Belrun is there to receive her.

Vanyel is still waking up properly from his Healing-sleep transport. 

Dara is a bit distracted trying to make sure he's all right, but she looks up at Belrun. "I'm so glad to see you again! I heard some of what's going on and it sounds really exciting but Van said you had more and also I'm still incredibly confused!" 

"Well, what'd Van tell you? The communication spell's pretty sparse, I don't exactly have a transcript."