"I can't in fact make a gate point to point, it has to go through Fairyland, though it can do so very closely so a user won't notice. And I'm the only one who can open and close my gates unless there's a technique I don't know about, but there could be."

"All right, I think that settles the question in favour of using our kind of permanent Gate for this. Anyway, that is all my questions for you." Pause. "So, now that things are settled, did you still wish to speak about the other thing?" 

"I would like to discuss how to safely overthrow the Queen of Fairyland."

Leareth blinks, is still for a moment, and then his face breaks into a smile. "Oh! Excellent. Yes, I would like to discuss how to do that." This seems like it might be a longer conversation; he glances around Promise's garden for a place to sit. 

She eventually detects that he is doing this and flutters over to her tree to make it part with a chair-shaped piece of wood.

"Thank you." Leareth sits. "All right. Who is the Queen of Fairyland? I assume she is not the ruler over all of it, since that would not really fit with the system as described." 

"She is the ruler of whatever bits of it she happens to want. Uh, most spontaneous fairies are members of kinds with multiple instances. I haven't met any other leaflets but I know they exist. But there's a handful that are one-offs with especially rare and useful powers. The Queen's power is to know every other fairy's name."

"...Wow. That sounds like a rather terrifying power, in Fairyland. Which I assume would make it rather hard to overthrow her." His eyes narrow slightly. "I am guessing you want to - make her your vassal and then order her to take Thorn's court, is that right?" 

"Yes. I'm sure she has a system for doing it, even though I don't know exactly what it is. She's got to be at least as clever as Thorn - even with her power you have to hold the upper hand, and she's done it for thousands and thousands of years. But her reputation suggests that she's not as sadistic and the upside potential is also greater."

"The upside potential of - overthrowing her rather than overthrowing Thorn directly?" 

"You get Thorn you get Thorn. You get the Queen you get Fairyland."

Nod. "That makes sense. So - what are your ideas so far? Or what are the challenges that you would like my help in solving?" 

"I think humans can, perhaps with Fetching, get her on a food claim, and then between her and compulsions get the rest of the court to stand down. It'll obviously be more complicated than that, but I've never been to her court and don't have real intel, just extrapolation based on a few clues and knowing she's smart. She won't be expecting Gifts, and she won't be expecting it to be possible to open a gate to Fairyland, since it's understood that sorcery doesn't work in the usual mortal world. Unless, of course, she's known about Velgarth all along, but it'd be a very well kept secret."

Nod. "Do you know the location of her court on a map, even approximately? We can perhaps obtain intel in advance with scrying or Farsight, like we did for your tree." 

"Yes, it's on the same continent as mine, north of the tree, west a little, I can point it out on the map I drew you before if I didn't mark it then."

"- Oh, you may well have marked it, I will have someone retrieve the map for me." 

He Mindspeaks Sunspring about it. A couple of minutes later, one of his staff comes up with the map retrieved from his office, and Leareth unfolds and checks it. Did Promise in fact mark the location of the Queen's court? 

Yes, there it is, in a summer and dawn intersection, near a bay on the north coast.

"Ah, perfect." Where is it located relative to Promise's two fairy gates, the one high above the middle of the ocean and the one on Valley Continent? 

Valley Continent is way way way off to the west, too far for any normal range of Gift. The one above the ocean is only a little farther from Queenscourt than from Promise's tree.

"All right. This is in scrying range, and I can Gate someone to within Fetching range once we know more about the surrounding terrain. Do you think that scrying and Farsight on the area ought be the next step here?" 

"I think so, yeah. If she has anything warding against them that's enough information to want to abort."

"Well, that part will be very quick to check and involve minimal risk. If you want to open the ocean gate for me, I can do it right now." 

She nods. She goes to the near end of the ocean gate and opens it.

Leareth, still holding the map, aims a scry at the location where Queenscourt is marked; since it's going to be pretty approximate, he places the scrying point high above the ground so he can see for a wide distance around, and looks for the nearest sign of habitation or buildings. 

There's a palace, over there. It's tall and beautiful and shining.