And now, Taylor is holding a little roseling, wiggling excitedly in her hands, and feeling - strange new senses for things -

...Is this what a Thinker headache feels like from the other side?  [ADMINISTRATOR] dislikes this.  On the other hand: [UNDERSTANDING] === [POTENTIAL SOLUTION]; this much, she learned from the short time she and her host were one creature.  The non-hosts are teleporting.  This thing her host called [MAGIC] may be how they are doing this without the hardware Shards need, and without the same sorts of expenditure they undertake.

She is allowed to encourage a host to exploit novel power interactions.

-- spread out into her swarm, what --

And meanwhile, Ophelia is still coming down from her panic of 'what the fuck' to a confused 'okay, it's Milani, I don't know what She's doing here but it is in fact Milani - becoming Weaver's witch patron?  That's definitely a choice she could make, what the fuck?' when there is a whisper from her mirror - "the lost girl needs to find her will to be herself again; teach her what you've learned of my path."

Well.  That's definitely...something.  Probably explains what she overheard, too, if Milani wasn't the only deific being involved in this.

"...Good job getting Milani's attention; I believe she's gifted you power that I can teach you how to use.  First lesson: don't draw the gods' collective attention to you by praying at random like you must have done to find Milani, because some of the gods are Asmodeus."

"What."

"I do in fact remember the Asmodeus you mentioned.  I was not, however, praying at random."

The roseling looks vaguely human: not in the sense that sie could pass for one, but as a conscious imitation. Sie might pass for a normal rosebush sculpted to look humanoid, if sie stopped moving. Sie has a large blossom for its 'head', a pair of wings made of petals, and the rest of hir torso is constantly shifting in ways that suggest different body-shapes, female, male and neither.

Sie takes a few seconds to figure out how to push on Taylor's hands - carefully, without bringing hir thorns close to Taylor's fingers - and turns around to give her a graceful wing-spreading bow. "Taylor! I'm Rosal. I've heard great things about you from Milani! She asked me to help and advise you and I always wanted to visit Golarion, so here I am." Sie twists hir head-flower around like an owl. "That includes teaching Taylor to use her new witchy powers. Are you Shelyn's? Milani didn't tell me you were qualified to teach witches, but She couldn't see you very well."

"I am my own self; I occasionally work with different patrons of sorts on mutual goals.  You may call me Ophelia."

"Now if you will excuse me just a moment, I'm going to go get the Inquisitor to stop worrying if she needs to shoot you.  She does not like surprises, and this is definitely a surprise."

...You think that saying words with your face is going to be sufficient to -

Adversarial confirmation?  And it was of Milani?

Ugh, she supposes she'll step down from high alert for now.

She's still got her eye on - well, everything she can, being as this is hostile territory.

"...What I want to know is how Milani did that without - provoking whatever is doing this," she waves a hand at the still-shut-down coloxus demon, "because the sort of entity that hands out that sort of power is very...unlikely to share and predisposed against Milani's nature."

A Chaotic Good deity has chosen Weaver, sent her an Outsider advisor, and apparently has made her a witch. 

Gord is experiencing that rare, heady feeling that means the universe is on his side for a change. The mind-controlling herald of an alien abomination has been endorsed by Chaos the moment she prayed - by an ally of Iomedae to boot! He wonders if it's a subtle snub from Iomedae to her followers, telling them to trust Chaotic Good more. (Take that! he thinks loudly in Mira's direction.)

He jogs in Taylor's direction, wearing a broad and for once completely sincere grin. "Let me be among the first to welcome you to Golarion! I am absolutely delighted that the patron of freedom and liberation approves of Weaver and, I hope, of our shared cause as well! ...I am Gord, cleric of Gorum and freedom fighter of the Worldwound."

"How are you feeling?" sie asks Taylor solicitously, "I know gods talking to mortals can be a headache. That's part of the reason They send people like me instead. Would you like me to call you Taylor or Weaver or something else?"

Someone compatible with Milani, whose prayer reached Her on the first try, wasn't ever going to be noticed by Asmodeus. The alien is a different matter, though, so sie'll keep quiet on this matter for now.

"Weaver, for the moment.  I'm fine, I've had worse."

Really, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is "the first week of her having had powers", 12 is "Khepri/her merge with the Queen Administrator", and 5 is "trying to see/hear through her bugs for the first time", this is about a 3, in terms of disorientation, and as far as pain, she's definitely had worse.

"...Oh, bother, I forgot to warn the outsider about Gord.  He really does have a sort of charisma to him."

(Insofar as Iomedae can be considered to have an opinion on this matter, it is mostly "glad that Milani is helping".  She's too busy to have time to arrange subtle snubs, though it is true that She thinks that Milani and Her outsider will likely be better at keeping Taylor Hebert aimed towards Good ends than an equivalent bond with Herself, for reasons of interpersonal compatibility and cosmic coincidence.)

Milani saw a Chaotic Evil cleric in Taylor's party, of a deity Who chose to keep Their name obscured. The other people are all either Good or Lawful. A cleric of Gorum doesn't fit this picture, although...

Better to keep quiet until sie can talk to Taylor in private. Witches can't detect alignments but enough people in this party can, it's just a matter of figuring out who to trust and talk to first.

"Milani very much approves of Weaver!" sie says warmly but noncommittally. 

Good, Lawful, or [ERROR UNDEFINED], actually, thank you very much.