Leareth is too busy being INTENSELY DISTRACTED by his entire sensory experience melting into itself to even attempt a response. It's hard to parse someone's words when he's half seeing sounds as colours. 

Well, it probably doesn't hurt to have the kid along and a hostage just in case?

"It's your decision," she says to Jisa, squeezing Leareth's hand. "I can tell you're a really mature kid and that you don't need more people trying to make decisions for you. But my recommendation is that you stay here; I think it'll probably be safer."

Adventure!!!!!!!!! 

"Can you tell me if you're doing all right?" she asks Leareth. You're supposed to Check In With People if you're doing a lot of Mindhealing to them. 

The question is a very pretty swirl of purple and green. 

Leareth makes a noise which he hopes is reassuring. He doesn't want to slow her down. 

"Do you think I'm hurting him?" Jisa asks Carissa, worriedly. "Should I stop for a minute?" 

"Well, how's it going, compared to what you expected? Are you reducing the block? Are you doing lasting things to other parts of his mind? I don't think he's in pain -" he might be but that's totally irrelevant to their goals - "so I think he'd only want you to stop if you're worried that you might be doing it wrong."

"I think I'm getting at the block but it's really glued in there! And I miiiiiight be, um, making some...other mess...it's stuck so I have to make it sort of gooey and then that makes other stuff in his mind sort of gooey too..." 

Honestly Jisa has never seen anything like this and is mostly improvising on the spot what she hopes will work. 

"- I think I'm almost done on the part that's in the way of his mage-gift?" 

Leareth puts a vast effort into parsing her words. "I - fine - keep going -" 

There's a knock on the door. "Jisa?" The voice belongs to Ellie. "Are you still busy?" 

Aaaaaaaah. 

"Still kind of busy! ...Umm Leareth wants something to eat and drink?" 

"Oh good! He must be feeling better - the Healer on day shift said it was hard to get him to eat anything, I'll be right back." 

"Thank you!" 

Jisa is soooooo streeeeessed and this is making her Mindhealing work if anything even more sloppy. But she's nearly done. She thinks. 

Probably Leareth's own Mindhealer will be able to fix the damage? Carissa hopes? If not maybe she can still convince Leareth's people to let her go back to her own world if she takes them with and offers to help orient them and teach them to operate there.

"Aaaaand all right I think I'm done! I'm going to stop now and you should take a little while to catch your breath and then try doing a bit of magic to see if that works?" 

The spinning maelstrom of colours and sounds and sensations and concepts all melting into each other slows to a halt. 

Leareth blinks. His eyes seem to be mostly seeing the room, though there's a faint staticky fuzz throughout everything and motes of random colour dancing in his peripheral vision. 

He clears his throat, which feels weird in some indescribable way but does work. "I - think - that worked...?" The downside is that he's painfully exhausted; being subjected to a lot of Mindhealing is tiring, and Jisa wasn't very efficient about it. But it's a flavour of exhaustion that, he thinks, mostly didn't affect his physical state or his magical reserves. 

He tries a mage-light. It works. 

...Despite himself, he smiles at Carissa, almost a grin. He's shaky with relief. 

" - should we wait for the food, or go?"

It's...kind of bizarre and shocking that this worked at all - there's a Heartstone right here in Haven, surely the Star-Eyed doesn't want Her prisoners getting away - what are Starwind and Moondance even doing right now - 

"We should go now." 

:They almost certainly have wards to detect magic use: he warns Carissa. :The Gate will trigger alarms - we will need to move very fast once I begin it -: 

He checks. The door is still locked. 

All right. Focus. ...Focusing is really hard right now but Leareth has two thousand years of experience, and this is objectively speaking a much less complicated Gate that the frantic unscaffolded one he used to get out of the collapsing safehouse near Iftel, let alone his half-Gate out of the Void. 

He raises a Gate. 

:Go - go go go -: he sends frantically to Carissa.

And then attempts to stand up from the bed, and finds himself instead slithering down onto the floor in a heap. 

Aaaaaaaah! This is happening so fast and Jisa is suddenly having so many second thoughts! 

Carissa isn't having a single second thought.

She drags Leareth across the threshold and ignores the kid.

This is going to take her at least ten seconds, because Leareth is a lot heavier than her and he's not capable of helping effectively at all. At least he realizes this in the first couple of seconds, and stops wriggling so she can just drag him. 

Jisa stands frozen on the spot. 

- she feels like she's been VERY STUPID but she doesn't actually know what she missed? 

The woman prisoner is very very distracted right now. And also about to be very far away. And Jisa needs to decide NOW whether she's going with them - 

She pushes a LOT harder with her Thoughtsensing, and tries to read the woman's mind. 

She was an idiot for not having Levitate or something prepared - if they're caught she's going to DIE and then she WON'T EXIST ANYMORE and she's SO TERRIFIED -

She is not holding the Gate for the kid, she's going to Dispel Magic as soon as she and Leareth are through -

She's so scared! She's so scared of dying and she's going to be so alone and what if something else goes wrong - Jisa doesn't want her to die - 

(- she is also very very curious about everything there wasn't time to explain -) 

She sprints ahead, darts past Carissa and tumbles into the dim-lit stone room just ahead of her. 

Leareth goes rigid for an instant as Carissa drags him through the Gate and the drain from the spell gulps down all of his remaining reserves and then some. 

As soon as she casts Dispel Magic and brings down the Gate, it's going to be utterly pitch-black in the heavily shielded underground store-room that Leareth directed the Gate to.