Carissa has many talents but calming panicked children isn't really one of them. If they were a Chelish child she'd slap them just because you don't slap someone in a shape-up sort of way if you're planning to execute them, why bother, but by the norms of other places this would probably be more threatening than not doing that. And obviously saying things to them doesn't work. Iomedae said 'act as my Self', which probably means to do what Iomedae would do, more than that's her normal strategy, but she doesn't know what Iomedae would do. Exude an aura of paladiny paladinness? They do have an aura, and it's not just magical. Carissa has never contemplating imitating it. She could...try that?

What are even the essential elements of a paladin aura. Fearlessness, unshakeableness, slight smugness - maybe the slight smugness is a way in which paladins differ from the Iomedaen ideal, maybe Iomedae herself isn't smug - no, what Iomedae is is angry, and being angry at the kid doesn't seem like it'd help at all -

"How about you draw me a map of your world," Carissa says, and gestures for someone to get him paper and pen. 

Oh no this is an unfairly hard request! 

He draws. It's not a very good drawing because he can't stop shaking and he's having even more trouble remembering the map he saw than he usually does.

It could be Golarion? It probably isn't, it'd be a pretty bad map of Golarion, but it could be. The place he identified himself as from is the right place for the Mwangi Expanse. There are some islands where Absalom is. Iomedae said he wasn't from this world, so probably it's just a coincidence, but. 

"Thank you," she says, reading through it. "What do you think you'll need to be safe and comfortable here while we figure out what's going on?"

Why is she asking him that? He's so confused! If anything the question makes this more stressful, because he doesn't understand what any of these people want. 

"I dunno." 

:He might benefit from some time alone: Ramel offers. :He's - very very overwhelmed. I would say that he should see a Mindhealer but unfortunately that's also pretty overwhelming: 

I think you shouldn't do therapy on people who think you might kill them, they'll be too cooperative. Can we find him a guest room, and guard it, mostly in case the monsters do follow him -

:Sure, we can do that–: 

He cuts off, eyes going out of focus; it's the way Mindspeakers look when suddenly interrupted. 

:- Message from your husband. He's going to wrap up over in Aktun as soon as he can, expect him in thirty minutes, and he's sending Nayoki over to get the full run-down on what you know so far, and to look at what if anything the Velgarth detection-wards on the room picked up when he arrived: 

Good. Let's have someone draw up a bath, for the kid, too. He smells like he's maybe been hiding in an outhouse for a while. And say comforting things to him? Do we have anyone on staff with children-comforting expertise? 

:One of the Healers, maybe? I'll get someone for it - ideally someone with Projective Empathy to help calm him down a bit...: 

He kneels again, to bring his eyes level with the kid's, and speaks very gently. "Can you come with me? We're going to get you a bath and then a room where you can rest." 

Masozi manages to nod. He picks himself up from the floor, moving mechanically and not making eye contact with either of them. 

He's...more exhausted than anything else, at this point. Things keep happening and he can't keep up and he has no idea what's happening, which gives him a dizzy falling sort of feeling again. 

The kid looks slightly unsteady on his feet, but Ramel suspects that touching him at all will just scare him even more. "Thank you. You can follow me this way." 

:Carissa, Nayoki's going to Gate in and meet you. Meeting-room nearest the Gate threshold: 

Carissa heads over there.

Nayoki reaches the meeting-room at a run, seconds after Carissa does. "- What in all hells is going on - I was running an experiment Leareth made me drop everything, he never does that -" 

"Kid showed up in the palace from - another planet? Sounds like a lousy place honestly but we should definitely check it out. Also he thinks monsters might follow him, though we haven't observed any. Iomedae says do all interplanetary contact in Velgarth where she can see it."

"...More other world things. Perfect." Nayoki sits down. "What do you know about his planet, so far? And the kid himself?" 

"Practically nothing, Iomedae can't see him that well either - he's Neutral. On his planet, there are lots of varied monsters, called mals, and most children are eaten by them, and to protect children people send them away to school, which is...in a demiplane? I think? So the monsters can't get them. But the kid had gotten in trouble in the demiplane for killing for mana - just animals, but they think it's addictive and if you start with animals you'll escalate to killing people? It sounded kind of like what people say in Velgarth but also no one in Velgarth would bother killing rats for blood magic, would they? Because you don't get enough? So maybe there's a difference. Anyway, the place is ruled by 'enclaves', several of which were involved in a power struggle, and the kid was - adjacent to it? He was worried there'd be a war." She hands over the map. 

Nayoki studies the map. 

"Wait, so - the demiplane only has children in it? And the children are having a power struggle and might go to war?" 

"I'm not sure? He's almost an adult, as Cheliax counts it, and he was thinking about people older than him. But I think it's mostly students."

"...I see. How old do you think he actually is?" 

"I don't know, thirteen, fourteen? An underfed thirteen or fourteen but poor kids always are."

"He was poor, in his world? Do we have any idea how his blood-magic use - or whatever it is that they do in that world - was related to a power struggle between these 'enclaves'? And do you happen to know the place names on this map?" 

"I don't know, I don't know except he tearfully assured me he hadn't known it was bad and he promised to stop, and I can read the map with Comprehend Languages up but I don't know how far that gets me -" She speaks all the unfamiliar place names out loud. "New York and Shanghai were the ones he was worried might be at war."

"They are not even on the same continent! I am surprised they would have much geopolitical tension. Or interaction at all. Teleports are not cheap - actually, hmm, do we know if his world has that, or Gates?" 

"He said he'd never been farther from his village than two months of walking but that just suggests that if there's something, poor people don't have it."