"I don't think my case is very representative!"

"Just, you know, for my notes, I'll also ask other people."

"In my case Iomedae personally arranged to make sure I'd think I might need to kill Leareth, when I met him."

"Hmm, so, one point for the hypothesis that the Good gods are just very invested in this -"

"Where did you even get your hypothesis in the first place, how many Good clerics have you met?"

"Enough that they won't all know it was you who shared the forbidden Good cleric secrets, don't worry."

This is incredibly adorable, and Leareth has to try very hard to keep a straight face and does not, entirely, succeed. 

He Gates them to the palace, to one of the secure Gate-rooms where no one untrusted will have a chance to notice the duplicate Carissas, and walks with them back to his and Carissa's usual suite. 

Mhalir...is just going to hang back and observe, for now. 

Mhalir's Carissa looks somewhat startled at the suite, but recovers quickly and starts in on comparing it to the ship. "I have a television."

"And what is a television."

"It does illusions but it does them really really precisely. Earth humans use them for theatre. They have stories about Earth adventurers, and comedies, and fantasy which is where they pretend they have magic even though no one on Earth does, and science fiction which is where they pretend to have spaceships even though no one on Earth does..."

"Huh. Maybe sometime we can arrange to watch a movie.

Is she staying here?" she asks Leareth.

"- If that works? It seems simplest, in terms of not making her presence obvious." He smiles at the other Carissa. "I would like to watch a movie! I am very curious now." 

"I just feel silly, having bragged of all my bedrooms and now having four of us here in one."

"It's because your husband thinks I'm hot," she says to her other self. "Mhalir, is there any way to get a television in here so we can watch James Bond?"

"- If Leareth can Gate to the Yeerk ship again, we can get one of the portable screens?" 

Now that things are not horribly rushed he can plausibly manage to actually pray to Abadar and get his Lesser Restorations and Recharge Innate Reserves again and do another Gate. "What is 'James Bond'?" 

"Carissa, you do so much better a job of explaining it." 

"James Bond is an Earth adventurer who fights with an Earth weapon called a gun. It's a small metal two-handed weapon where you trigger an explosion and then it sends a piece of metal flying at your target, hopefully smashing right through them. Most Earth humans are gun fighters but most of them suck at it. James Bond works for the Queen of England, the most powerful country on Earth, and people keep trying to destroy the world or steal England's stuff or whatever and he has to do lots of acrobatics and have sex with lots of women in order to save the day. It's not very subtle and it does not make much sense but Earth's had lots more practice at propaganda and it really shows."

"I see." Glance over at his Carissa. "This is probably going to make me want to Mindspeak all the characters to tell them not to be stupid, yes? I suppose I can do a Gate for that." 

...Aww, that's exactly what watching James Bond movies always makes him think. They are, however, very fun. 

His Carissa is feeling jealous of her alt, which is kind of silly, and curious about Earth propaganda, which she's leaning into as it's less silly. "Yes, let's watch James Bond."

It is very much not dawn, but 'dawn' is kind of a fake concept anyway and also he's missed out on several days' worth of spells so it's not like he's getting a leg up against other clerics; Leareth figures he might as well sit down and attempt praying to Abadar to get his magic-restoring spells so he won't be too tired to enjoy the 'movie'. 

:There's a power-sharing agreement among the gods about this: Abadar complains to him. :....I guess I could let you do it from the spaceship.:

:...I suppose I can do it from the ship:

Their suite is shielded against Gates, it won't be detectable from outside, and also he Gates places a lot and no one will consider it suspicious... He does the infosec calculation anyway, of course.

Leareth risks startling the Yeerks this time rather than ask Mhalir's Carissa to do a Sending again. He did say he would sync up after they arrived, and. She looked so - not resentful, exactly, but - something, when Mhalir asked before. 

He steps across and takes his Gate down and then gives the Yeerk staff a quick update - everything is fine, they're going to take some time to rest and schedule meetings for tomorrow, expect communications by this time - and then he asks politely if they can borrow a - portable screen? Television? Mhalir wants to show him some examples of how Earth does propaganda. For educational purposes.