Ranara and her little daughter Azabel move to Urtho's Tower when the latter can say six words ("up", "mama", "milk", "no", "now", and "please") and hasn't started to walk yet. Ranara sets up to teach little children to read, ones who don't have evident Gifts yet - Ranara herself has Mindspeech, is all, with about a classroom's worth of range. Azabel sits in on classes, worn on her mother's back or later plopped in a corner with toys or, when she's only four, plopped in a corner with a book, younger than the other kids in the class. When Azabel has in fact sat through her mother's curriculum she is turned somewhat loose, to walk very carefully up and down and around the Tower, exploring.
"Well, that wouldn't have been helpful at all! Even if I attacked him back he'd still have gotten me!"
"...can you tell me what to do with the set-commanded boys after me and Lionwind fix them?"
"I didn't even know there was such a thing as remedial ethics tutoring! I hope it helps."
Then Lasi will escort her to the door, tell her to wait there a minute, and slip back into the Guard-office. She returns a couple of minutes later to give Azabel a room number and the name of the officer she should ask for, to find the set-commanded boys once her Mindhealing instructor is available.
"Thank you."
And she writes the room number and the name down, and (goes to the bathroom and) goes to wait outside Lionwind's office.
Lionwind is still with his last patient of the day, but he's done forty-five minutes later. He calmly ushers the patient to the door, waits for it to fall closed, and then rushes over to Azabel. "Are you all right?"
"I'm okay - I tripped when they startled me but it wasn't a very bad fall. We're supposed to go to 507 and fix the set-commanded boys."
He nods, and pats her shoulder before heading off in the direction of the guard building, at a courteously Azabel-appropriate pace. "I hope they did not give you trouble about using a set-command in self defence?"
“I hope they would have informed you by this point if you were in trouble.”
They reach the building and head to room 507.