Nod. 

Leareth is glancing uneasily at the spirit now, wondering what private conversation is taking so long. 

"Are we done here?"

"The Goddess has nothing more to convey right now." 

Promise flutters back over to Leareth. "I should send Sunlord's army home."

Leareth nods, his expression back to unreadable. "Of course. You need some Gates?" 

"It would help. If that's difficult we can just let them wait out their orders but I'd rather not."

"I can Gate you there. They are only in the two groups now, that simplifies things." 

...The hard part, it turns out, is getting himself to step through the Gate to the nonhuman cluster. It's fine, he has to tell himself firmly, Promise has them all under control and he's shielded and they don't have a compulsioned Mindhealer anymore. He still can't cross it without flinching. 

She looks at him but doesn't say anything. Gets within earshot. Calls out that they may Gate back to Iftel and that once they have done so their orders are rescinded.

Thirty seconds or so pass in bemused silence, soldiers looking at each other, and then a Gate goes up and they start going through. Giving Promise a very wide berth. 

"Do you want to wait here until they have all left, or start on the next batch?" Leareth asks her quietly. 

"Next batch."

Leareth Gates them there. It's not far, and this time he crosses without twitching, and without any change in his neutral expression. He's folding away his emotions hard, to be dealt with later at a more appropriate moment, and right now everything feels distant and not-quite-real. 

He waits for Promise. 

She updates their orders too.

The human group seems to have fewer mages, but soon enough a Gate is up and they're lining up to cross it, while not getting any closer to Promise than they absolutely must. Their terrified looks aimed in her general direction are a lot more legible than the nonhumans' body language. 

"Done?" 

"Yes."

"We should go collect Nayoki and my people, and - go somewhere else." Leareth starts working on a Gate back to the wreckage. He's still mad about the library, even though he has additional copies of all the books elsewhere. 

Nod.

Leareth Gates them back to the heap of rubble and beckons Nayoki over, then heads off to ask the Tayledras who seem to be in charge, tersely, what their plan is. 

The Healing-Adept and a couple of others are going to camp here for a few days or until the terrifying lady figures out a better way of negotiating with the Goddess. 

Nayoki gathers the three other survivors from Leareth's facility, and heads over to join them. "We are Gating out again?" 

"Seems so." Leareth shoots an irritated look sky-ward. "This is going to seriously disrupt the weather patterns. I would not be surprised if we have a week of blizzards after this." Sigh. He starts working on yet another Gate, back to the... Oh. Right. "Promise, is the Ifteli soldier we kidnapped to question about names still in the records cache?" 

"Presumably."

"Probably we should do something about that. I wish I had thought of it sooner, she will not be able to Gate herself back alone." Leareth feels as though he should be able to think of an answer, but it's hard when he feels like he's observing himself from a great distance.