Nayoki has to admit that this is not exactly reassuring, but it still seems like useful information? In some sense?

She relays it to Leareth. :I think I will not be in danger if I go in and talk to her. ...Honestly, I think you would not be either, but I would prefer to resolve the question of why she thinks you must be the Emperor of the Eastern Empire and also have forbidden all of your staff from touching her before you speak with her in person: 

(Nayoki is rather protective of Leareth.) 

This is...probably worth it? Leareth arranged all of this in order to figure out what was happening in Valdemar and he is really not any closer to answering that question. And, in fact, has several dozen additional questions. 

:All right. I...think it makes sense to be fairly open with her? I think it will be difficult to resolve all of the confusion here otherwise: 

:Right:

And Nayoki heads for the Work Room door, and forges in. 

:All of you are dismissed: she tells Leareth's staff, including the Fetcher. :I will take over from here: 

She waits and watches for the young woman's reaction to this. 

....Aaaaaaaaaaah what a relief but also at the same time he's weirdly upset about it??? 

"Sorry," the Fetcher says to their visitor/prisoner, and flees.

She turns a stunningly pretty pout on Nayoki. "It is mean to let me tease someone and not let him actually have me. Cruel and unreasonable work conditions. I'm gonna unionize this place."

"Let him...have you? ...I think you must have very different expectations around standard operational protocols than the ones I am used to! What does 'unionize' mean?" 

"Oh, Jesus, am I actually gonna have to do that now. You know, I feel like this is kind of being punished for being quippy. Uh, unionizing is when all of the workers get together to demand better working conditions, because the boss has more leverage than any one worker, but if they're all acting collectively then it's an equal playing field. So in this case, your workers are gonna want to demand the right to have sex with me, and, I dunno, health insurance? Dental? - actually I should clarify first, are we, like, dealing with the direct staff of the Emperor or is this a mercenary outfit he sent to grab me or what -"

"What an interesting concept!" Leareth will be so curious about it. "I should probably not ask more about it right now since we do have other priorities. ....First off, Leareth - the person I work for, who ordered your kidnapping in hopes of figuring out what was even happening in Haven - is not the Emperor of the Eastern Empire, and I am not sure why you had the impression that he would be? ...He was involved in setting up the Eastern Empire but that was a very long time ago." 

" - because no one else has been foreshadowed at all?" This is also, precisely, what she's thinking. "I guess 'set up the Eastern Empire' technically sort of works but it's such a stretch. I'm used to the villain having been established before he kidnaps me!"

The entire way that this woman reasons is baffling. 

"You are....used to that? Has this - happened to you before?" 

Six times now!

"Hey. uh, at this point I think we're getting into interrogation territory and I don't just give up information because people ask nicely. It's a matter of pride. If you don't have an army I bet you can still wrangle something but it'll take some creativity."

Not getting any less confusing! The fact that it's also weirdly hot is beside the point.

"I mean, Leareth does have an army but he does not generally use it for interrogations. I am not even sure how one would go about using an entire army for that?"

Also Leareth wouldn't need to because Thoughtsensing and compulsions exist. Though the latter apparently don't work on this woman. Presumably she knows that Thoughtsensing exists, if she's been in Valdemar for a while? Nayoki isn't going to be the first one to bring it up. 

...Is her Mindhealing Sight giving her anything at all useful, here? 

" - gangbang," she says instantly. "I really thought that was pretty unambiguous innuendo. Does Leareth have a title? Dark Lord? Evil Emperor? Tyrant of Terrara?"

The woman's mind is - not nearly as far outside the normal range as you'd expect for the bizarre thing she's saying. 

She is a very fetching loaf of bread. It's somehow sensually appealing. You can almost smell it, and it smells nice. 

Nayoki's Mindhealing Sight does not normally include anything even vaguely analogous to smell! Let alone sensually nice smells! This is surprisingly distracting and it's not a route where she was expecting that kind of distraction!

 "Leareth does not really have a title? He is not actually the leader of a country, yet." And then, because she can't help herself, apparently, "- some people in the north do refer to him as Master Dark. I assume because 'Leareth' means 'darkness' in the Tayledras language. Though in the original Kaled'a'in tongue that he knew, and chose it from, it means the night sky full of stars." 

"Master Dark! Yeah, now we're hopping. An army, but no country - so, by any chance, was he planning to use the army to invade the country?" She will have to thwart him. With sex. She does not expect this to be hard; there are usually a couple plot twists but no more mortal peril than in your average Pixar movie. She's not that kinky.

"...I suppose that is the natural extrapolation here. And Leareth has told me to be open with you, in hopes that - this will result in him learning the answers to his many, many questions sooner, I think. So - yes, that was the original intended purpose for his army." 

Pause. 

"- I confess I am a little surprised that Vanyel did not tell you about it? Given that you were, by all accounts, close with him." 

"He just kinda stared off into the middle distance. I figured the Evil Emperor had killed his whole family and he just wasn't ready to talk about it yet, but then apparently they're all alive -

- shit fuck I'm a moron - 

- Master Dark killed Tylendel. Right?"

"....Not personally? At least I am fairly sure he would have told me if that were the case! I - would have to check if he knows more about the circumstances than I do..." 

"Well, you should check that!! Because it's so blindingly obvious I was obviously supposed to figure it out a week ago!! Vanyel lost something emotionally equivalent to 'his whole family' to the supervillain! Vanyel's too emotionally damaged to talk about it! Vanyel has a fucking hole in his soul from the death of his partner, Tylendel, in an incident he doesn't want to talk about! And I'd already found Stef so I was like 'neat, that plotline's getting all resolved, weird how I have no leads on the supervillain' -

- did you know that there's no stat to make myself smarter, I can get hotter or hornier or kinkier or less constrained by the laws of physics but I am as much of a dumbass as I was on Day 1. I take back my imputations about the writers, this one's on me."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah - 

:Leareth can you tell me about the circumstances of Tylendel's death? I think he was Herald Vanyel's first partner. I - just - she is asking about that: 

Nayoki is perhaps going to LEAVE UNSPECIFIED the exact question being asked. Because it's awful. 

(Also she feels like there was a lot of information in their most recent exchange and she should really be trying to mentally note that down and convey it to Leareth but she is too busy internally screaming.) 

...Where did that come from. Leareth was not expecting this to come up in their conversation! 

:I did not intend his death specifically, but - the bloodpath mage involved in the feud with his family and the neighboring landholding was one whom I had supplied, and - given the assignment of kidnapping young mage-gifted children or killing Herald-Mages for bounty. I think there was - extensive scheming by several gods involved, as well, but I did play a causal role in Tylendel's death:

Pause. 

:I confess I am very curious why she is asking about that?: 

Nayoki is not going to have any feelings about that right now. Which mostly requires not having any thoughts either. 

"Leareth says he did not intend Tylendel's death but one of his existing plots was - involved in causing it. Though also the gods were involved. I am not sure if you have encountered Them much, yet, but They are very terrible and inconvenient." 

'did not intend Tylendel's death' seems like it might be weaselly bullshit, but if it is Master Dark'll tearfully confess as much later, she's in no hurry. 

"Uh, I don't think this is exactly the kind of story where religion features," she says reassuringly, about the gods.

"And I know people around here think that homosexuality is objectionable but actually -" slight smile - "don't knock it till you've tried it, is how I see these things."