Objectively if she thinks about it there's no point punishing people for something they couldn't reasonably have avoided and the reason to punish them anyway is that there's also little reason not to and it's not really worth determining whether they could've reasonably avoided it or not. But Leareth already has to pay attention to this, so.

She stares at the wall. "If the kid told them you're her father - then the actions of the Heralds all make sense. The kid herself still does not make sense, but - they thought they had your toddler, then she declared I was her mother, so they tried to arrest me.....

Vanyel seems very very sad all the time and I'm not sure how you manage to have conversations with him, he didn't seem at all like he liked...talking. Liss thinks being a Herald is bad for him, and said he never wanted it. The other heralds seem...all right, I guess? In their place I would have rendered me unconscious on the spot before indicating any suspicion and then searched me for the artifacts, but in their defense I think they were off duty and they can't have been expecting this and maybe they tried something and it didn't work because I'm a third-circle caster not a random person...I think you're right that people don't have any reason to believe there's an afterlife though I want to reinvent scrying and confirm it. 

Haven was poor. Compared to Cheliax."

Leareth listens calmly to all of this.

"- That sounds right," he says finally. "About Vanyel, I mean. He is very sad and he did not want to be a Herald, he - was steered into it by some Power. I think he puts a great deal of effort into our conversations, but, yes, I do also have the impression he does not like it." He sighs again. "I expect I will end up speaking to him in the dream soon enough, and perhaps find out more about what happened."

Nod. "Oh. He, uh, defended you, sort of, at one point, the old man asked if if we were married and then he asked if I was your prisoner and Vanyel was like "I don't think Leareth would -""

Leareth blinks. "Hmm. He did not think I would what, marry my prisoner? Have a child with my prisoner?"

"I think so? I don't know why he thought you wouldn't aside from that it'd be hard to think of a strategic justification?"

"I am not sure either, I have not exactly tried to present him with a positive slant on myself and my actions, and I thought he was upset with me after our last conversation. We had a fight about ethics."

"Maybe he was just referring to the thing where all your staff agrees you have no personal life. What'd you - fight about? The invading his country?"

"I cannot think that Vanyel has much information on my personal life or lack thereof! Perhaps I somehow convey that impression in my manner, though. We fought about blood-magic - in the abstract, he was not aware of my plan. He thought that killing innocents was a line that he would never cross. I brought up some examples from one of the best-known Heraldic textbooks on ethics, to try to show that this position was not really consistent with how Heralds are willing to act in practice."

Carissa looks like someone who has not particularly encountered the position one should be unwilling to kill innocents. "Huh."

"Anyway. I...am really not sure what to do with the small child who thinks we are her parents. I ought really - tell her that we are not - but I expect quite a lot of wailing." Conveniently, Princess Dierne Aspexia Iomedae does not speak Valdemaran.

"...yeah." Sigh. "I guess I'd explain to her that no one loves her and yelling will make things worse for her and she should work on being cute instead? I think she's old enough she'd better know that."

"I am not very inclined to say that to her! ...Also I am still confused, I have been reading her mind and she is - not lying about remembering us as her parents. I - am beginning to wonder if there is more than one Golarion, somehow." He drags a hand over his face. "And if hers is - well, very very surprising and strange."

"Even if there were more than one Golarion, you're not from Golarion."

"- Maybe there is a different Velgarth where instead of kidnapping you and dropping you here to solve the problem, Nefreti grabbed me? ...Or maybe time travel is possible, that is also occurring to me, but that would require us - deciding to get married and conquer Cheliax together. Which I must admit was not among my top ten plans for going forward."

"I don't know much about your capabilities here but I don't especially think you could do it, Hell has more resources than you. Also even if you did do it and were then in charge of Cheliax you'd want to marry, uh, an appropriately placed noble, not a random deserter from the army. Also if Aroden's not dead then - that's not the world I grew up in -"

"That too. ...Also apparently Aroden is me, in her world, whatever that means! I am so incredibly confused and I dislike it."

"I'm sorry."

Princess Dierne Aspexia Iomedae has fallen asleep on Leareth.

She's probably had a tiring day. Leareth will...try to get up, very cautiously, without waking her, and find an available bedroom to put her to bed in. This is not what he expected his day to look like.

She wakes up while being put down to bed and makes a small sad sound. "I want to sleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed tonight," she objects. 

Leareth continues to not speak Taldane, but he can pick up her meaning from surface thoughts.

:It is not your mommy and daddy's bedtime yet. I can stay here until you fall asleep though.: What sorts of things do children usually do at bedtime. :I can sing you a song?: Leareth isn't an amazing singer by any stretch of the imagination but he knows some ballads.

:I want the Windrider. And you should do magic stars on the ceiling. And you should fix my ring so I'm safe if there's another emergency.:

:Yes, of course: Interesting that she knows the Windrider Cycle - and fortunate, it's the most popular Valdemaran song cycle and Leareth actually know a couple of the songs from it well enough to probably sing all the way through.

He makes an illusion of stars on the ceiling of the random guest bedroom, and then looks at her ring and tries to determine if it's actually fixable or if he should...what, lie to her and said he did? That seems kind of mean and unfair, but it's going to be hard to explain to her why she's safe here.

It is fixable. She may be in the habit of activating it at least once a week.

Leareth puts it back to the way it was, this time keying the alarm to himself - somewhat reluctantly, it's going to be very annoying if she decides that needing a glass of water in the middle of the night is an emergency, but he would, at this point, feel moderately bad if anything else happened to her.

He sits on the side of the bed and sings 'Windrider Unchained', only needing to mumble through words he can't remember on a couple of the verses.