Melody is of the growing opinion that gods are the worst. Her own crossing wasn't that bad, in either direction - apparently Vkandis finds her uninteresting - but she is INCREDIBLY TIRED of gods messing with the minds of her patients. (She's not sure how to think of Leareth if not a patient, albeit an unusual one - her mind doesn't seem to have a category for 'prisoners she uses Mindhealing to restrain'.) 

She sighs and taps Leareth's shoulder and pushes with her Gift. He goes silent, sinking back into unconsciousness. 

She turns to Carissa. :Hey. Are you all right - did Vkandis hurt you too -?: 

Carissa tries to make it apparent in her surface thoughts that she has divine instructions to keep to the agreement, and she does not know what the agreement is, but she very much swears she will keep to it, and it seems like the safest way to do so is to not take any more actions until she dies, which could maybe be tomorrow, if they're efficient about all this?

....Ugh. Somehow Melody is even more ticked off about gods now. 

:My understanding is that the agreement was between the Star-Eyed Goddess and Vkandis. For Vkandis to let us through the barrier to grab Leareth - and you - in exchange for both of you staying under the Star-Eyed's remit, which I think just means under guard by the Tayledras? I'm not sure, it was all kind of in a rush, but - I shouldn't think it involved you in particular making any promises, since you had no idea. I imagine the Tayledras will intervene if you tried to escape or get word back to your people: 

So the agreement is that she belongs to the Star-Eyed Goddess now?

Okay.

She can deal with that.

Sufficiently loyal people still get to come back with some memories.

What...does the Star-Eyed Goddess want from people who belong to the Star-Eyed Goddess.

Melody can't think of anything to say that would be reassuring, so she hovers silently as the Tayledras carry their two prisoners back to the cottage they used previously as a Gate-threshold. 

One of the other Adepts, not Starwind or Moondance, raises a Gate back to the palace grounds in Haven, almost three hundred miles away. It's glowing bluish-white, and crossing it is disorienting, it feels like falling for an infinitesimal fraction of a second, but it's not nearly as bizarre as the barrier crossing. 

And then it's over, and they're in Haven. 

It's raining hard. Thunder rumbles overhead. There've been far too many Gates here in the last few candlemarks, and the weather doesn't like it.

The horizon is just starting to turn pearly-grey with the approaching dawn. 

Nobody immediately comes out to meet them, but Savil Mindspeaks them from the safety of the shielded Palace. 

:Did you -: 

:We have Leareth and his captor. Both under set-commands. ...Leareth may need a Healer: 

:Gods! He's hurt? What happened?: 

:You would have to ask the other prisoner for details. She...did something. Attempting to escape with him again, we believe: 

Savil takes a shaky breath and lets it out. 

:Stay exactly where you are. We're sending someone to, er, check you for compulsions and things: 

This was discussed beforehand and the Tayledras are expecting it. They stay put, standing around somewhat awkwardly in the rain. Moondance shields Leareth from it with a mage-barrier, but no one bothers to try to keep Carissa dry. 

It would literally never in several thousand years of lying here thinking about this situation occur to Carissa that someone might try to keep her dry. 

Instead she is trying to remember what the Star-Eyed Goddess's deal is. She controls the...Dhorisha Plains, right, and some other place she is forgetting. She has a pact, with some people, where they serve her. Leareth didn't like it because...because Leareth is Good and incredibly naive and thinks that everyone should just be fair and reasonable to everyone they have power over all the time. It didn't actually sound bad in any way, if you don't believe mortals are meant to have rights in the first place. 

A man wearing white comes out. Exchanges some silent Mindspeech with the Tayledras, then examines each person one at a time. 

His eyes go wide when he gets to Leareth. :What is that?: 

Melody shrugs. :Oh, can you see it? I can only make it out indirectly, it's putting all sorts of weird pressure on his mind. It's the foreign world's version of a compulsion, apparently: 

:It's twenty times more overpowered than any compulsion I've ever seen! And...complex - there's structure there, I can't tell just by looking what it's for...: 

He looks absolutely fascinated. 

:You'd have to ask the wizard prisoner for details, but I don't know if it'll be on the top ten first questions for interrogating her: 

Kilchas sighs gustily. :And it sounds like we won't be interrogating Leareth for a while - he was injured in the, er, rescue-capture?: This is aimed at Moondance. 

:It seems so. Though he was not exactly well cared for before that. We ought bring him inside: 

Kilchas shrugs. :You're all clear. Let's go in. We don't need special facilities for the other prisoner, right, with the set-command in place? Might as well bring her to the House of Healing too: 

Looks are exchanged. 

:Savil?: Starwind checks. 

:One second - er, yes, you're cleared to proceed to the House of Healing: 

Kilchas leads the way down the path, to a long, low stone building. It looks dingy and poor and very, very old compared to most of the construction in Cheliax. 

Inside is warm and dry, though. 

And, probably to Carissa's great surprise, a woman shows up to help the Adept lower her into a bed. 

"Melody? Can she undress or do we have to -?" 

"She literally can't move at all. I, er, should probably...fix that, at some point. It'll be faster just to do it ourselves." 

And they skin Carissa out of her rain-soaked clothes, like a doll, and the other woman tucks her in with blankets that must have been very recently warmed near a fire. 

"Melody, can you at least let her talk?" She turns and looks at Carissa. "I'm Gemma. One of the Healers here. Are you injured?"