Dree nods and composes her email and gets a reply from the Committed of Truth. "A Committed is going to swing by here," she says. "And not come in the room, she's allergic to iso gear, but you can demonstrate the telepathy and she can see you through the door."

Leareth will probably be very relieved about that. :Sure, sounds good. In how long, do you know? Leareth is going to start really needing a nap, at some point, and I need to decide if it's worth loading him up with Mindhealing blocks to avoid the nightmare problem, or if we should try to hold out until we get to the new accommodations: 

"The map app," she is thinking here of the thing she has running on her phone now, showing a dot approaching them on a colorful map of the neighborhood, "thinks another five minutes."

They have maps with realtime locations on where other people are???? Leareth really very badly wants to see this but unfortunately he is now hiding under a blanket and that is definitely not something he's going to be able to change until there stop being strangers in the same room as him. 

:That's so neat! Five minutes seems fine, sure. Thank you for your help with everything: 

"No problem." Dree hangs around till the Committed arrives.

The Committed is in a work uniform - long white dress, with bishop sleeves and a mandarin collar, and over that a deep royal blue vest as long as the dress is, worn open and decorated with little pins and badges. She has her hair in braided pigtails that go to the small of her back, and wears glasses. She stops outside the door and texts Dree, who says, "That's her, can you telepathy her?"

That's a nice uniform. More distinctive and also a lot more flattering than Healers' robes. Melody approves. On reflection, everyone's clothing here is impressively high-quality; their technology must include something for weaving or sewing. If Leareth were fully functional he would probably have already thought to ask about that.

She reaches out with a Mindtouch. :Hello. I'm Melody and this is Leareth. Er, do you need any more of a demonstration than just me saying that to you?: 

The Committed furrows her brow. :Can you hear this?: she replies.

:Yep! You thought 'can you hear this' at me? ...I can also read your surface thoughts in more detail and tell you what I'm seeing there, if that would be useful information, but for ethical reasons I generally don't do that without asking: 

:Does that go for your companion as well?:

:Sorry, which part? ...Oh. Er, if it's about the Thoughtsensing, Leareth didn't agree to the standard rules for Healers that I did, and I think he does tend to read people's thoughts more often, especially when he's confused or scared. If he feels safe somewhere he's generally willing to not do that: 

The Committed is taking notes. :I am prepared to represent to the Premier and any other inquirers that I experienced this conversation as telepathic, that you made those assertions about your ethical boundaries, and that both of you appear to exist as depicted by Dree. Are there other assertions you would like me to be prepared to make about you or on your behalf?:

:Well, this isn't something I can directly prove, but it seems relevant to include that we traveled here deliberately from another world, using a kind of magic from Velgarth - our world of origin. And probably your Premier would want to know about the war with the evil god that caused us to decide to come here?: 

:Please tell me about that. I would also like to see more demonstrations of magic that are safely convenient:

:War, short version: Leareth and I are from Velgarth, where some people are born with Gifts, including Mindspeech which we both have. Also there are gods, I'm not a fan of Them, it's mostly not relevant except for it's slightly relevant that They hate Leareth personally. Leareth was experimenting with magical travel and accidentally ended up in Arda, a different world, which has its own native kind of magic - generally less flexible, but more powerful in some ways - and also its own native gods. Including a specific evil god, for SOME REASON, who likes torturing people. There was a war in their ancient history and he was imprisoned by the other gods but eventually released. Big surprise, he started another war, it came out openly shortly after Leareth arrived there and noticed in the first ten minutes of talking to someone about it that all their mysterious problems could be explained by an evil god scheming in the background. Leareth helped extensively in the war, including by bringing over another powerful mage - mage-gift is the most flexible and useful of our Gifts, I don't have it sadly - but he was captured by the evil god and only rescued at the end of the war. That was a couple of years ago. A few days ago we learned that the capital of my home country had been destroyed in a surprise attack, and it looks like one of the less powerful god-entities from Arda, one allied with the evil god, had managed to get across during the leadup to the last war ending, and allied with one of Velgarth's gods, and so now there's an entire war going on over there and we're not entirely sure that they don't have inter-world travel too so we figured we'd better bring Leareth somewhere that was definitively safe. ....We're quite sure that this doesn't put your world at any additional risk: 

Melody is running low on energy and, as usual for her, this means that she tends to talk more and use way more words than necessary. 

The Committed takes notes very solemnly. She's transliterating "god". :Is there anything else?:

:No, I think that’s all:

:Are any demonstrations of other magical abilities safely convenient?:

:I - can demonstrate Mindhealing if you want? It's not especially costly or inconvenient for me, or anything. It's more, just, I'm not as sure as I'd prefer that things I expect to be safe and easily reversible will still be that for people from another world: 

:And your companion?:

:He only has Mindspeech right now, which I've already demonstrated. If it would be helpful, I can have him Mindspeak you as well, I guess: 

:Why does he only have Mindspeech right now?:

:....It's complicated. Is it important that I explain it right now?: 

:No, but I will mention omissions in my writeup:

Sigh. :Sure, you can do that: