"Please do."

Minihouse.

Lady Reihar appears to be engaging in abstract art in her bedroom. Oh no wait that's a person.

"Eugh," says Sindri. "Is that -"

"I went to medical school and I can tell you that it is biologically impossible for that person to be alive without magic."

"Wow. Um. I am definitely terrified of Reihar Nirue," says Sindri.

"I don't blame you."

"Let's not try to seduce her," he says. "I feel like that would be a bad plan. Any other useful information available...?"

Well how about this rumour that she might have resurrected somebody!

Posthumous works of somebody - "Nope. Unless they never do anything, which I suppose is given her hobbies possible."

"Yeah... is there some way you can, I don't know, consider the resurrectee a creation of hers and conjure for resurrections she has done? Or would that catch it even if she just cloned them or something? Actually I think I want to know if she cloned someone, I am deeply concerned for the welfare of the clone if so."

"I don't think I can conjure by that, it'd be timeslicey shenanigans."

"What's the name of the resurrectee -"

Kadiran Ruava!

"Can you conjure for her under the assumption that even if it's not a successful resurrection she was probably still named after the original if she turned out viable at all -?"

"Yeah, if you let me."

"Go on, then, let's see how she's doing if she exists."

That's a familiar abstract sculpture.

"Augh!" he says. "I keep being insufficiently suspicious!"

"I apologize for assuming this might be garden-variety mistreatment of political prisoners easily handled by United Nations sanctions and the introduction of summoning to alleviate material scarcity stresses."

"I damn well wish it had been - poor girl - all right, let's consider our approach to the prince. I didn't see anything on that list that made a bird drone sound like a bad idea. And now would be a pretty good time to send one because Lady Reihar is pretty likely to be the only Wood mage in Akaiet, she's busy, and Wood mages have lifeshaping which, if it comes with an associated sense as I think I've heard implied, is the only means I currently know of for someone to magically detect that a bird drone is not a real bird. Thoughts?"

"Water might be able to do it too. I guess I can add pockets of water to the bird drone."

"All right. Water-laden bird drone. Let's see what Prince Korovai is like."

Cam conjures feathers in the area, finds some that look big enough to go with a big bird, makes the bird, inspects it, and copies its design for a drone. He starts it up in the sky halfway to its destination already and pilots it from his computer. Off the drone flaps.

Sindri paces and constructs increasingly elaborate flower crowns as a form of fidgeting.

The drone won't need that much attention till it gets closer to the palace. Cam plays Freecell. "Do you want a chiplock install, seems like it might be handy for all your government-toppling needs."

"Sure, yeah."