The tiny child retreats from full on yelling to quiet hiccuping sobs and clings very clingily. Her thoughts are mostly about how she wants her daddy King Leareth to take her back to her playroom and explain everything so it's not scary.

:Everything is all right: Leareth tells the toddler who inexplicably thinks that...he's her father -? :You are not in any danger and I am not angry with you:

People move around him. He snaps out occasional extra Mindspeech orders to Nayoki.

:- Oh. Carissa, what should we grab from your room, if we are evacuating...?:

:You had copies of my notes. I have a basket with notes and in-progress projects, on my desk.: Her knees are starting to hurt because she can't shift her weight at all to relieve them but this actually feels appropriate, somehow, in an odd sense safer than it'd feel to be free to go. She's still very scared but it's not attached to any specific predictions; if he doesn't think she could've done much better then it still doesn't make sense to kill her, and...she also doesn't think she could've done much better. How could she have predicted this.

:Thank you: And since it would seem especially bad for the Heralds to obtain Carissa's notes, not that Leareth thinks it's likely they'll be able to find this base at all but still, he orders that her desk be cleared and moved out along with all the other sensitive work in progress.

And less than five minutes later there's a Gate, glowing not far away, and Nayoki is taking Carissa's hand.

:Come with me: she sends - it's not quite undoing the set-command but it routes around it somehow, and Carissa will find herself able to obey.

She walks through the Gate.

There's a blur of movement on either side of her, and then eventually Nayoki's eyes staring into hers, her hands on Carissa's shoulders.

:Clear: she tells Leareth.

A moment later, to Carissa, :I am going to take off the set-command now:

This takes substantially longer than it took to place it, and feels very weird, but eventually Carissa's vision stops trying to show the corners of everything melting, and she finds herself in a different underground stone chamber, this one quite big with a higher, echoing ceiling.

Leareth leans against the wall, shooting occasional Mindspeech directions to his staff as they carry boxes of evacuated supplies to new storage locations, and hugs the little girl still in his arms.

He's so confused.

Well. She's picked her side, now. She tries to - control her expectations. Obviously there won't be an excursion like that again. That's fine. She doesn't need that. Probably Leareth will be some odd Leareth-emotion, instead of angry, but if he is angry, he still won't kill her. She's not very sure what he might do instead. She hasn't seen him angry and that's itself a bit scary now that she thinks about it. 

"Thank you," she says to Nayoki.

Pexa's daddy came and so now everything is okay. She hugs him a lot and waits for him to explain what's going on.

Leareth is reading both of their minds, right now, and - he really wishes he could reassure the child, and reassure Carissa though he's much less sure that's even possible.

He's suddenly very tired. :We should be safe here no matter what resources they have: he tells Carissa, and then slides down and sits against the wall beside her, the child still in his arms. :I - wish I understood what is happening here... I do not, at all:

:I don't either. I - she speaks Taldane -: 

"What's your name?" she asks the kid.

Her mommy is being very silly. "Princess Dierne Aspexia Iomedae."

" - princess of what."

"Cheliax."

"Oh.

Who's in charge of Cheliax."

"You! And my daddy King Leareth."

"What - year. Is it."

Pexa does not know this! "Where's White, I want White."

"Who's White."

"My cat!"

"...not here right now."

Leareth doesn't speak Taldane.

:Do you know how your mommy and daddy came to be the rulers of Cheliax?: he asks the child in his arms.

:There were mean people in charge of Cheliax so my daddy and Aroden, who is also a my daddy, fought them. And they won, because they are the bestest.:

Leareth turns to look at Carissa, wondering if she's as baffled as he is. He includes her in his Mindspeech answer. :What do you mean, Aroden is also your daddy. ...Also, is Aroden not dead: