"Also," the Healer working on Leareth says dryly, "in our world at least it's considered very rude to ask about the details of - that sort of thing. And, are you two almost done? Leareth, you've got maybe another thirty seconds before keeping this up risks actual damage." 

"Which, one assumes, an Asmodean cleric can fix." Glance at Carissa. "- He is using Healing to buy me some alertness so we can talk. Have we talked enough." 

"Yes." She - wants to hug him, but that's stupid. She takes a step back and excises the impulse by reminding herself that she's probably going to make a mistake and die horribly.

"I suppose we ought not appear to treat you so much as a valued guest. I apologize. ...And Nayoki should be briefed on this - plan. Before she goes." 

Leareth closes his eyes. 

"He needs to rest," one of the other Healers says tightly. "I can Mindspeak Nayoki - you up for talking to her?" 

To pass on Leareth's orders? Surely she won't believe them from Carissa? "Yes."

"I'll have her come over here. You can do the talking and Leareth can just sign off on it?" 

They've stopped the alertness-boost and Leareth feels incredibly awful now, but he nods wearily. 

And Nayoki is there a minute and a half later. "What is it?" 

"Uh, Leareth wants to keep me, and I told him I think there's a way to play it off so they don't think it's worth making a big deal over, and don't want that much compensation, and I think he approved of that plan, and wanted me to convey it to you. He wants you to - stop treating me like a valued guest, to be consistent with the story he's going to give them."

"...I see. Leareth?" 

Nod. 

(Nayoki is totally reading Carissa's mind again. How she feels about whatever this plan is seems kind of important.) 

Mostly what she's feeling is totally overwhelmed. Leareth's offer is good for her, and it'd be stupid not to take it given her default trajectory here, and he explicitly said he'd let her leave so there's a bound on how bad it can possibly get. And she does think Cheliax won't care very much, if you present it right, and she's not sure if Leareth's competent to do that but it seems promising that he - jumped to the right track quickly enough - anyway, worse case scenario here doesn't seem very much worse than the default scenario here, which is that she gets taken to pieces and then goes to Hell, and that's not very bad, really -

If Leareth were Evil she'd be expecting a worse outcome for herself but she'd also be less off-balance, which is a trade she would totally make, right now.

Is she going to have to walk them through how you keep a pregnant prisoner who you don't like much - probably. Good people. Don't know anything. She's feeling extremely reluctant to explain that to Nayoki, who is scary without Leareth's mitigating aura of being too Good for his own Good - no, she shouldn't think of that as scary, she should think of that as an asset. Nayoki is loyal to Leareth and not Good, Nayoki is in principle the kind of person who should be easy to work with and who will help Leareth accomplish his goals as ruthlessly as needed, which is also what Carissa wants, here. 

She thinks back to the storeroom where she arrived with Leareth and Jisa. "What do you want done with the girl?" Nayoki had asked, and - and they're just stepping sideways into a world where Leareth said something different -

Oh, so that's the plan. 

It's...sort of cute? In a mildly horrifying way? Nayoki is distantly tempted to be amused and chuckle about it but she is absolutely not going to do that. 

Carissa is still just standing there, thinking overwhelmed thoughts. 

"Leareth approves it and wants you to explain," she says, a little impatiently. 

"He's going to tell them I'm annoying and boring, but pregnant, and that he's going to keep me. They'll probably want to talk to me for confirmation bur that shouldn't be hard."

"I see. They did agree not to read anybody's mind while here, so hopefully that covers you as well. ...Should we post a guard at your door or are you giving the impression you are fine with being kept." 

"You'd want to maintain ambiguity, if this were actually what Leareth wanted, about what would happen if I wasn't cooperative. I think most people'd post a guard and tell the prisoner it's for their safety, or something like that."

"...Of course. You are after all a very beautiful young woman, in a facility that is mostly male soldiers. Leareth would not want anything to happen." Nayoki scowls. "- Which is not actually a concern, to be clear! Leareth does not tolerate discipline problems among his people. But we can hint it, if that is...legible to your people." 

"Yes, you've got it. It's - Cheliax disapproves of rape, right, but it'd be very stupid to disapprove of people being prisoners, and if sometimes the prisoners make decisions that they were rather cornered into, that's the human experience, no one can maintain righteous indignation about cornering people."

That is such a bizarre and vaguely offensive worldview! Now doesn't seem like the time to argue about it, though.

"All right. Should I stall so that you have longer to - prepare yourself - or would it be fine if we do the exchange in the next half-candlemark as planned?" 

"That's sooner than I was expecting but, uh, my part isn't hard."

"We did not want to put off Leareth getting magical healing." 

"Of course. I'm ready." Are all of these people under the impression that Carissa is incredibly fragile or something, that is the second time people've proposed delaying getting Leareth something he needs in case it causes her distress. She's admittedly had a stressful week but she doesn't think she gives off the impression that she's going to become useless unless people baby her.

Nayoki considers being offended about this, but it's mostly just sad, and actually she's too busy worrying about negotiating with Evil people to leave much room for feelings anyway, so she only feels tired. 

"Go back to your room, then," she says tightly. "I need to go pack my things." And do some Mindhealing on herself so she can keep her temper, later. It's inevitably going to be a struggle.