What Malduoni sees is...something, in the Detect Thoughts equivalent of his peripheral vision, some kind of shift, and he re-focuses his attention on Leareth - 

- at which point the permanent spell shuts off and the sudden impact of it sends him reeling - though there's a very brief infinitissimal flicker of - something shining very bright and moving very fast and alien-yet-familiar - 

And then he's slumped back in his chair, his head pounding. 

Leareth finds himself back in his own (physical) body.

And then a second later finds himself, somewhat to his own surprise, collapsing in a heap on the floor, trembling and hyperventilating and not actually crying but it's like his body is trying to do the motions of crying without any of the attendant emotions. 

Malduoni who is actually Aroden is presumably reading his mind and so Leareth tries to very clearly think the words that Iomedae said to him before vanishing. 

Malduoni isn't, actually, reading Leareth's mind. His Detect Thoughts is functional again but he's still dizzy, and also alarmed, and he's testing it on Carissa first. 

Carissa has absolutely no idea what's going on but of the two mysteriously disabled people one prefers that she continue to exist. She has dived to the floor to grab Leareth and check if he's being strangled by an invisible monkey or having his life drained through his tongue or something.

Leareth does not seem to be suffering either of these fates, or any other kind of actual damage or bizarre medical problem. He's still shaking and breathing hard, but he reaches for Carissa, almost without noticing that he's doing that. 

He has to communicate - what first - one thing was important but one was urgent - 

"Problem," he forces out. "Worldwound. Iomedae - warned me - might need help -" 

Malduoni is suddenly holding almost perfectly still. 

Tentatively, he shifts Detect Thoughts to Leareth's mind. 

Nothing bizarre and fast-moving and alien, this time, just a human mind, albeit a strange one. Leareth is clearly half in shock, his surface thoughts aren't especially coherent, but there's a litany - no, a memory - that he keeps repeating to himself. A sharp-eyed Chelish woman looking at him, impatient, frustrated. 

Tell him I want to work in Velgarth

I can see better.

He'll need to take some of my people who can consecrate some ground

he can pick them up at the Worldwound, when he's done being an idiot

Tell him it was Milani, and I think She got the math wrong

but either way it bloody fucking obviously wasn't me

"What happened at the Worldwound - is it holding -"

Leareth has no idea, Iomedae didn't exactly flesh out that aspect. He shakes his head, helplessly. 

"- I apologize, please bear with me for two minutes," Malduoni says abruptly, rising from the chair. "I will...go check..." 

And he Plane Shifts out. Lands in his other personal demiplane, the hallway connected to his office in Rahadoum - strides out - heads straight for his crystal ball, stopping only to briefly search a bookshelf and snag a list of current Iomedaean personnel stationed at the Worldwound - 

What's going on. 

Left alone in the demiplane, Leareth slumps back against Carissa, his heart still pounding almost painfully in his chest. 

"Can you still understand me," he thinks to try, after a few seconds. 

(Tongues still works.) 

The wardstone at Simenka has fallen. It's the sort of thing that happened sometimes - maybe once every five or ten years - even before Cheliax pulled out. The protective barrier will still function between the next two, more distant locations, but it'll be weaker. 

"Yes. Iomedae sent you a vision?"

Time-sensitive actions first. He digs into his drawer of scrolls, does a Sending to one of the Rahadoum commanders - can they please organize sending some people to support the remaining troops at the Worldwound - and then to three different adventuring parties he's called on for favours outside of Rahadoum before. Problem at the Worldwound, standard contract agreement and this much gold if they go help out - it's not easy money, exactly, but he should be known as someone who always pays up - 

That should help them cover the weaker section. Fixing the ward-stone is a harder problem. Ideally one he would coordinate with Iomedae's people on, since most likely they already have a plan. 

...He's stupidly, pointlessly terrified of that. 

Milani. Why? 

Sure, it was obvious it couldn't have been Iomedae. But - he hadn't thought the betrayal would happen at all. He missed something. Even as a god. All of his previous understanding was cast into doubt... 

Iomedae knows, now.

He - didn't see that coming. Didn't predict this, as a way Leareth could get past the restrictions of his demiplane. Should have, maybe.

Why didn't he? Lawful Evil, mostly. Lawful Evil and working on a tentative treaty with Cheliax, but that's - only the local picture, it's not the big picture, the big picture is that Leareth wants to save everyone and fix everything - 

"I - yes - I think so." Leareth is still shaking. "Prayed to her. Thought - maybe - would still work. Even here. It did." 

"Well. Good move, I guess." It would - take a god, pretty much, for Detect Thoughts to stun a ninth-circle wizard like that - and that must be what happened - 

- she wants to ask him to say more about the Worldwound but he obviously doesn't know any more - 

What else. Carissa can't read his mind. If Leareth wants her to know what he heard, he's going to have to use his actual mouth words. 

"She, she said it is him. Aroden. She did not know until now. She...seemed angry about it." 

"Oh."

"She could be lying."

"...Would she? Is that - Lawful Good? ...She said Milani betrayed him. Not Asmodeus." 

"I don't really know if Lawful Good gods can lie. Lawful people can, though not, like, in an oath  - I don't know much about Milani but She's a - minor god? I don't think She could have killed Aroden even if She was trying to - and She's Chaotic Good and I don't see how it was a Chaotic Good thing to do -"

"Iomedae really did not explain much! But... I mean, the sense I got - Aroden already knew Asmodeus opposed him, no? And would fight as hard as He could against Aroden's plan? And...Aroden thought that Asmodeus and the other opposed gods would not be enough, but - if it was a fine balance -" 

Maybe he got more from the vision with Iomedae than he realized. Or maybe it's just the rest of the negative-space missing puzzle piece, falling into place. 

Tell him I want to work in Velgarth, Iomedae said, I can see better.

"- It destroyed Foresight, in your world. Right. Aroden's death? That - I am not sure I understand the concept of Chaotic Good, but...it might approve of that outcome?" 

"Yeah. It made prophecy stop working. ...I guess that's a pretty Chaotic Good sort of thing to do. - makes the gods weaker, makes things on the Material Plane farther from what they intended - honestly it sounds like Velgarth could use that but things here were fine -"

“Iomedae - did think that Milani got the math wrong.” 

"I guess it's not pathetic to say that about a god if you are one."