:I think they're going to make me go home soon: Jisa says to Carissa. :So you should finish telling me all the advice you wanted to. It was interesting: 

Okay. Hmm. What's something grownups don't let you do that you want to do?

Jisa considers this solemnly. She does NOT say 'reading people's minds'. 

:...Climbing things? My mama says it's not ladylike. I don't want to be ladylike! ...And my mama makes me wear gowns even though I don't like it: 

Right. And since it's a Good country they probably think it's better if you don't have to worry about why, since why would involve explaining that the world is dangerous and that your actions have political implications and so on and I bet Good people like to pretend that's not true, at least far enough to not tell their kids how it works... so, you're the King's daughter, right? 

:Mmm-hmm: 

So that means people watch you to learn things about the King's court, and how he runs his country, and what the rules are, and who has influence over him. And in that game, it is useful to someone for you to wear dresses, probably your mama. I don't know why - I can think of reasons why that'd be in Cheliax, but Good countries are different from Cheliax and the exact things people gain and play for are going to be different. 

Jisa scrunches up her face in thought. :So - hmm - maybe my mama wants me to wear dresses because she wants people to think that she taught me manners, because...that makes people think my papa will have manners too?: 

Yes, maybe. Or maybe she thinks that people will assume bad things about her if you don't wear dresses, that they'll assume she doesn't know the rules or doesn't have manners herself and isn't a suitable mistress to the King.

:Savil doesn't have to wear dresses, though, and nobody thinks that she doesn't know the rules or doesn't have manners!: 

Savil the Herald-mage? Is she a noble?

:Yes, she's Vanyel's aunt: 

Carissa also hadn't know that Vanyel was a noble. Neither of them act like it. At all. Huh. Well, lots of the time there are different rules for powerful spellcasters. No one is assessing them to try to learn about their mother's manners, they're assessing them to see how loyal they are and how eccentric they like to present as and how often they see combat, and they choose their outfits to communicate about that. 

:My mama is a really powerful Healer. She’s one of the best in the whole kingdom. She doesn’t have to wear gowns either, she wears Healer robes. She just makes me wear gowns anyway:

Well. If you were in Cheliax, I would say, maybe she is trying to position you for a marriage to someone useful to your father and they like gowns either directly because some people are into that or indirectly because gowns would be a sign you're cooperative and do what you're told. Or maybe she wants people to think of you like a princess and thinks gowns will help with that. Or maybe she thinks that your father will be more attached to you if you wear gowns, and that's good for protecting you.

:Oh: 

This is the point at which Nayoki hustles the two of them through the Gate, which appears to open directly into the infirmary.

Leareth is tucked into a bed with an entire nest of blankets, grimacing at the Healer trying to offer him painkillers. It probably is reasonable at this point, to focus on resting, but he’s worried about being any more out of it while Carissa is still settling in here. 

He tries to catch her eye, but has no way to actually communicate without using Mindspeech, which he would rather not.

She is mostly occupied talking to Jisa but she does pause once they're through the Gate to take in her surroundings. Medical care for Leareth, that seems good. Lots of people - well, she wasn't planning to fight her way out. She might be here for a while, actually, if no one has a way through the barrier on Iftel's border.

She sees Leareth looking at her and has no idea what to make of it. Presumably he is not worried she'll betray him, she hasn't the slightest incentive to do that.

Leareth groans and beckons Nayoki over. Speaks to  her quietly for a moment. 

Nayoki nods and steps awkwardly around the bed to rejoin Carissa. “Leareth wanted to check if you need anything urgently?”

"I don't, ma'am, thank you. - and it might be good for him if you tell him to stop being Good and worry about himself, I've got an entire person looking after me and he should too."

"Telling Leareth not to concern himself with possible complications is like telling the sun not to rise. We should give them some space in here, though."

She nudges Carissa toward the door, beckons for Jisa to follow. "- You know, it is clear he respects you. It is not easy to earn Leareth's respect in only a few days. ...Though I suppose that very competently capturing him would help." 

"The First Arcane did that." She would consider lying about it if she hadn't, actually, said it already. Clearly what is going on with Leareth is that while trying to persuade her to defect, and in Valdemar, it made sense for him to try to get along with her, and the way he does that (like the way Carissa herself does that sort of thing) doesn't snap back instantly when the situation changes. ...also he might think she's hot, Good or not, straight men who don't are hard to find. "Leareth's clearly very talented." She will not complain about how that's basically wasted on a Good person.

Nayoki isn't going to bother to argue with that. She just shakes her had slightly. "Anyway. Do you want the set-commands still on you to be removed? Oh, and I did notice, it looks like they were modified to be much less restrictive - do you know why that was done with you and not with Leareth?" 

"...because I snarked at them? That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me either but I think it was in fact what happened. I would like them removed."

"Of course. Follow me - oh, one moment." Nayoki calls out to someone else at the end of the hall. "Ebet! I want you to return this young lady to Valdemar. Take a guard - make sure she is not harmed - but go unarmed. We do not need to escalate the situation with them any more than we already have."