Nayoki giggles. "Is that just your whole thing - you go around on quests to fuck people and collect a harem of supervillains and you get rewards for - succeeding at that? What sort of reward are you expecting for this one? ...Come to think of it, who's the one rewarding you, anyway? Do you work for your own version of a Master Dark?" 

"Can't tell you that." Literally; when she says something about the [non-mysterious and uninteresting origin of powers] they'll just hear that the answer is boring and irrelevant. "Uh, my reward for this quest is never having a moral dilemma again, reportedly, so that's got to be some hot shit and I'm expecting it's going to take a really good arc to get there."

The Thoughtsenser bravely tries his best to relay whatever she was just thinking about why she can’t tell Nayoki how her magic sex powers work. His best attempt is not especially coherent.

That makes the least sense of anything so far! Which is saying quite a lot! Leareth desperately wants to understand Elfyn’s alien magic, so - how can the problem possibly be that any attempt to describe it ends up conveying nothing except that it’s boring and doesn’t matter? It does matter! This is so baffling and frustrating! 

Nayoki giggles again. It’s a tense, high-pitched giggle; the subject is not actually very funny.

”Huh! That is very odd. I…would not have imagined that knowing Leareth would result in encountering fewer moral dilemmas! What sorts of moral dilemmas have you tended to run into before, anyway?”

" - don't actually wanna talk about this. I'm - not gonna fuck up your world, if that's what you're worried about? I don't do that. I give some people a nice time and seduce some supervillains to mend their evil ways and then I skip town." And it's great, most of the time, except when this specific unpleasant subject comes up!

“….I have to say, I cannot imagine how you could possibly convince Leareth to - make any different choices - just by having sex with him. That is not really how he works. Though if you somehow do it anyway, that will be such a good story.”

Sigh. Nayoki is at all capable of reading a room and she can tell that Elfyn really genuinely does not want to talk about this. 

"Anyway, I am sure he will want to speak to you himself as soon as he has gotten over being intensely paranoid that you might try to murder him. In the meantime, we could play with Mindhealing some more?"

There's an argument that she absolutely should not be teaching the mysterious sex alien how to use Mindhealing creatively, in case she goes off and uses it on Leareth, but on the other hand if she used Mindhealing to seduce Leareth that would be incredibly hot   Nayoki is, on some level, concerned that she's making bad decisions right now due to sex mind control, but it's a very distant level and the concern is not loud enough to actually cause her to stop. 

"Yes, we should! And when we're done with that you can use magic to tie me up for Master Dark, if that'll make him feel better."

"You have literally all of the Gifts! In addition to whatever powers you already had from your previous quests and your mysterious sex magic! I am not sure that tying you up would make you much less dangerous as an adversary at all. If Leareth decides he is willing to be in the same room as you, it will be because he is sufficiently convinced you are not directly hostile. ...Though I suppose it might be fun to tie you up anyway, and maybe it would help a little..." 

Leareth is really not sure it would help! The thing that would actually help is having her under a dozen of the usual compulsions, but compulsions apparently don't work on her. 

Maybe Nayoki can eventually work around to doing some Mindhealing on her to replicate the effect? If she...frames that as a sex thing? 

Sure. Nayoki - after she's had various other kinds of fun - can work her way around to proposing this. 

She will actually get to that idea herself! "There has got to be something I can do to these mind-ribbons that's the equivalent of tying up, but for magic, so the person can't use it."

"There are many things in that genre that you can do! Blocking only the ability to use magic, without any side effects, is very difficult - though, actually, we think Valdemar must have invented a method, since Vanyel was able to block his Foresight for the past year and thus avoid having the dream where he speaks to Leareth -" 

Oh, right, Elfyn possibly doesn't...know...about that? It didn't seem like Vanyel had told her anything about his strange, tense, decades-long destined enemy/quasi-friendship with Leareth.

Nayoki...will wait and see if she asks any questions about it. 

Yes, yes, it's already been driven home that she missed several plot hooks there. "Well, if you block some other things I won't complain. Unless they're sex things, then I'll complain loudly."

Nayoki's Sight-metaphor is not actually very convenient for this! She's great at rapidly incapacitating people in fully reversible ways; she's much less good at the fiddly detailed stuff. Elfyn's ribbons metaphor is probably way better and Nayoki is jealous! Maybe they can do some concert-rapport Sight sharing and Nayoki can experiment with things that way, and try to figure out a magic block that doesn't have all sorts of weird sensory side effects like the ones she's done in the past. 

“Do non-Mindhealers just not have any way of stopping people from using magic? That seems really inconvenient! Melody is, like, the only sexually mature Mindhealer in all of Haven.”

"I mean, if you are a mage you can put compulsions on people! I think the Heralds do not use this because it goes against their ethical principles." Slight eyeroll. "The downside is that compulsions are - very narrow, usually? And...brittle, compared to Mindhealing. If you want to use them to reliably and definitely block someone's ability to use magic, without any loopholes they could exploit, then it will have all sorts of side effects on their ability to think or - walk around in a room - things like that." 

The ribbon metaphor makes it a lot easier to zero in on specific Gifts! 

“Or have sex? I don’t mind if I can’t think or can’t walk.”

"I...confess I have never had reason to test that! Although I think you might just be immune to compulsions because of your sex magic? We tried it when we had first kidnapped you and it did not work." 

“Well obviously your magic won’t work on me if you haven’t fucked me! That’s the first level of the whole magic immunity skill tree, people have to fuck me to have power over me. Otherwise it’d be a lot more trouble getting supervillains to convince themselves they’re making good decisions.”

...Possibly Nayoki should have more concerns than she does about the fact that she is maybe being led into making terrible decisions while Elfyn's sex magic convinces her that they are actually good decisions??? 

Well, she's going to continue to leave the good-decision-making up to Leareth. She is just here to have a great time, right now. 

"Oh, how clever. I am going to place all the standard ones for prisoners, then. I do not think any of them should interfere with sex at all. Leareth will probably want some additional precautions because he hates mysterious forces beyond his understanding, but we can start with this." 

She starts trying to lay some compulsions. Does it work, this time? 

(Leareth takes reports on this from a distance, and tries to think through how many precautions have to be in place before this becomes 'not an incredibly stupid idea.' It's not going to be safe, either way, but he's willing to take on some risk, for the level of upside he might expect here.) 

It does work this time!!

Elfyn notices it, this time, and moans and shudders at it.

Nayoki would not previously have expected that this would be such a turn-on! She considers, briefly, whether to feel bad about that fact, before deciding this would be stupid. 

And so, while messages are relayed back and forth between her and Leareth, via the two Mindspeakers in the middle, Nayoki can incidentally have a delightful time while making very very sure that Elfyn will definitely not be able to harm Leareth. Or do very much period. Most of why this is fiddly and exact is because she does need to leave Elfyn able to talk.