There's a truly appalling backlog of horrifically complicated work to figure out and Nayoki is doing her best not to feel overwhelmed by it. It's not helping that Leareth's mind still looks...weird. Less than before - the temporary disruptions and instability must have been from the talking-to-a-god part - but she can see the paladin-changes. On someone else, the effect might be less broad-sweeping, but for Leareth in particular - Leareth, who's spent millennia working alone in a hostile world, using fear and paranoia and caution to keep himself alive - it's...sort of concerningly transformative. 

She needs to sit down and TALK to him about it at some point, but he's clearly in a hurry and she's not done with this meeting. 

"Leareth, by the way," she adds, "did Zahra tell you about the Resurrection for Carissa?" 

"What?" Leareth looks to Zahra. 

"My dad says Iomedae says to arrange her a resurrection if anything happens. I told the paladins this. I assume you would've done it anyway, honestly? You don't want her in Hell, she knows too much."

"I would have! But - yes, it makes sense to think through the logistics of it in advance, probably? Since if anything does happen to her, I am assuming it will then be time-sensitive to get her back before Hell can question her? What do we need to do, to be ready to resurrect her on demand?" 

(...Or himself, honestly. Iomedae seems utterly confident that She can prevent the Velgarth gods from grabbing his soul. Which...means that probably he should sit down with the paladins and talk through the pros and cons of keeping his own immortality method as an emergency backup in case something goes much more wrong than expected, and - almost certainly end up dismantling it...) 

(He's not afraid. Conviction, certainty, that he can figure out what the right call is and then do it and that's all right.) 

"Is there some way with your magic to check if she's alive, that's step 1. Dad has rings for us that will stop sending a signal if they're interfered with or if we die."

"- That is possible with Velgarth magic, but nontrivial. How much effort does it take for your father to make those rings?" 

"I think they're one of his original designs but not very hard to make once you've figured out how? He might only be able to make them ping him, though."

"Well, that would be better than nothing. I can think about how I could do it with Velgarth magic in a way that would be - definitely robust against the interference of this world's gods. Do you have a way of contacting your father to ask him?" 

"I have some scrolls of Sending." She pulls one out. "Hey, how difficult to make vitals monitoring for Carissa and Leareth, and can it inform Leareth's organization?" 

There's some powerful Golarion magic.

Leareth watches the magic intently! It's shaped very differently from a Plane Shift, but it's clearly doing some kind of interaction between different planes - which his current communication-spell can't do, yet, he needs to design a new version that can, and a new version of Gates that can, and this is the sort of magical research that's very hard for him to delegate to others... 

Malduoni is of course very busy, but he's also expecting to have to handle quite a lot of these sorts of interruption. He answers almost immediately. 

"I can have the monitoring ready in two days. Need to invent spell to relay alerts, can do but will take longer." 

Only Zara heard that, so she relays it. 

"- Good. I think that is faster than I could put something together, and researching it would come at the cost of other very critical research. What else would we need? Someone who can cast the spell, I assume - it is a cleric spell? So, Iomedae's people? And it requires materials, no?" 

"Cleric of fifth circle or higher if we have a body, seventh circle or higher if we have part of a body, ninth circle if we have no remains at all. And it requires a diamond. I don't think Iomedae has any ninth circle clerics."

"Which gods do have ninth circle clerics? Could we make arrangements with any of them, in advance, so it would not take as much time if we suddenly need it?" 

Snort. "Asmodeus does. Nefreti Clepati has ninth circle cleric spells and works for pay, though I only know her by reputation, Dad wouldn't even let me go there to drink the wine. Sarenrae has someone in Qadira."

"Noted. I think that I should write up some contingencies, then, and make sure that all of my senior people are appraised of what to do in the event of an emergency where I am - not available. And I will talk to Iomedae's representatives about who they have available at fifth and seventh circle." 

Sigh. "- And we should probably tell Carissa that we have made this arrangement, it - might reassure her." Though he's worried that if he goes back there, he'll get distracted again and end up not starting on his massive backlog of other work for another candlemark. 

"I can do that," Nayoki assures him. "And I will write up a draft proposal for those contingencies, I heard everything you did." 

"Thank you." Leareth nods to Zahra. "And - thank you, also. I deeply appreciate your willingness to help, here." 

"Well, we can use all the help we can get, with Cheliax."

“I know. And my help is yours - whatever I can offer.”

He heads off to review notes on his negotiations with Laborda. 

And Nayoki excuses herself and goes looking for Carissa.

Carissa is going to stop sulking in her room and go do stuff any minute now, no really.

Nayoki knocks politely. 

:May I come in? I will be brief, but - I have news for you: 

Why do people here say they're going to say something instead of just saying it. Maybe it's how the natural human inclination to torture people manifests itself if torturing them is disallowed. 

Sure, come on in!