"Oh. Right. I...guess I could see that." Shavri seems to find this idea uncomfortable. 

"I'm sorry. It seems - tragic, that you're more convenient to your gods when you're poor."

"Mmm. A lot of things are tragic about this world." 

"The whole country having to be poor forever feels - bigger than most things that are tragic." Shrug. "I don't think you're not allowed to do healing research though, probably you'd have noticed."

"Probably." Shavri's enthusiasm for talking about it still seems very deflated, though. 

Well, maybe she'll come back around to it if she makes small talk about how Golarion healing works.

Shavri remains more subdued than before, but does gradually perk up and start asking questions. 

Golarion healing is better for injury and unaffordable but good if you can get it for illness; it's useless for many other conditions Healers can see and treat, though. Carissa can herself do infernal healing with unholy water or a devil's blood but she didn't have either on her when she was arrested and would hardly have been permitted to keep it anyway.

Shavri thinks this is fascinating! Velgarth Healing has no particular advantage to either injuries versus illness; it just depends how much damage needs to be repaired and how widespread it is. She really wishes she could observe it, does Carissa think she could ever reinvent healing spells or is that only a god-magic thing, not something wizards can do? 

"If I hit seventh circle I get limited Wish, which can imitate divine spells, but I probably won't hit seventh circle and there's no other way. Maybe once Leareth's god exists it'll pick clerics."

"Maybe." 

The dining hall is starting to empty, and Shavri apologizes and excuses herself to head out. 

If no one seems to have instructions she'll go back to her room.

There are no further instructions. No one bothers her there, either. 

It is stupid how often she feels scared, here, when it's not causing her to do anything to defend herself.

She doesn't feel scared like this up north, not since she didn't exactly try to escape. 

She stews about this for a while and eventually falls asleep.

And she's woken in the middle of the night by a blaze of light and magic right next to her bed, and Leareth's voice, "Carissa come across now -" 

- well she'll do that!!!

And the Gate snaps down behind her in about half a second, taking just long enough to hear running footsteps and shouts from off in the distance, presumably someone raising the alarm about unexpected magic. 

Leareth reaches for her shoulders. "Are you all right." 

She was planning to kneel on the floor and hold still until he wanted to deal with her, like before, but that's an odd thing to do if he's reaching for her. She just holds still. She doesn't have Tongues up. She nods.

"Nayoki -"

"Clear." 

"Thank you." Leareth looks so inexplicably relieved. He switches to Mindspeech. :You are certain they did not harm you?: 

:They... didn't do anything I noticed?:

:I am very glad. Nayoki does not see anything either. I, just...:

He stands uncertainly for a couple more seconds and then, rather abruptly, hugs her. 

She is so confused -

- and letting that show on her face isn't going to help anything at all. She hugs him back. :I assume this isn't just because you missed me terribly.: