:...Right. Um. Can she tell you exactly what happened?: 

To Iomedae, :- We're trying to figure out what happened - can you tell me exactly what you saw in the garden-village before it exploded? Who did you talk to there?: 

:I spoke to a man called Starwind. He and another man were bathing in a pool. They were alarmed to see me, and shielded themselves, and asked questions about what I was doing. The other man went off, after a telepathic conversation I didn't hear. Starwind asked about the war I am fighting in my homeland, and about our understanding of the layout of the continents. 

Then everything exploded. It was - flame and poison and something I'm unfamiliar with, for ten miles around, for a long time.:

....Need relays this to Jisa, because it's not like she knows what to make of it. 

:Um. It - seems like, er, we - probably shouldn't go any closer, then...?:

Assuming this bizarre stranger is telling the truth about anything, but honestly Jisa is overwhelmed and is kind of flatly trusting Need to figure that sort of thing out. 

(She's so worried about Brightstar. His expression continues to be so concerning.) 

Katri has not even slightly been included in this mental conversation and is pretty confused about why Jisa and Brightstar are just standing still and staring into the distance???

:We really shouldn't! ...We should find her and Gate back to Haven with her and let someone with better Thoughtsensing read her mind, I think. I can't do it from here.: 

Jisa's current feeling is that she is overwhelmed and out of her depth and wishes that someone else could be the grownup and figure out what to do! ....which is a very alien feeling, for her, it's not the first time she's felt this way in the last couple of days but the last couple of days have been weird and bad and deeply wrong in multiple ways. 

:- Right. Er, where - is she, exactly -?: 

:Hey: Need sends in Iomedae's direction. :I think we should Gate you back to our capital so we can figure out what just happened, and I'd like to do that without us having to go any closer to the poisonous explosion or whatever it was. Do you have a way of getting to us fast -: a brief mental sense of direction, :- or should we have someone do a short-range Gate to you first?: 

:...I can fly, but not all that fast, and I am worried about going to your capital because I'm worried that I somehow caused the explosion that wiped out that village and in a city it would be unfathomably catastrophic, you'd have like six survivors.:

:- We can probably Gate you to somewhere that isn't a big city.: 

Pause. 

:Jisa, what's the most remote place you have a Gate-location? ....Though, er, I'm really not sure any of us should be there for it. Is there anywhere you can send her that Van can get on his own, that isn't near a big city?: 

It's obviously deeply rude to send Vanyel to do anything, right now, but he's also the most powerful person in the kingdom and the only one who could survive a fight with - whoever this is. Or with whoever her enemies are. Probably. ....Maybe. 

Wow. Jisa is the worst person to ask for this! 

:...Um.: She - technically has some Gate-locations in Rethwellan, but Van won't have the same ones, and also that's so far away and she's - actually pretty tired, right now, though she's been trying to hide it - 

- though, now that she's considering it, she did just do this Gate on blind reckoning. She....can definitely - or, well, probably - get a Gate up to somewhere vaguely reasonable on a map, somewhere that Van knows. She probably won't even collapse in a puddle after trying it.

Need has been in Shavri's head, before. 

:Send her to Polsinn. Van can Gate there.: 

....See, Jisa does not actually have a map on her right now, and she was probably supposed to learn in her lessons where Polsinn is but she cannot, in fact, remember right now. Possibly because she's stressed and terrified and she feels stupid about that but still. 

Need can send her a mental image of it! 

:You can Gate her there. - er, you'll have to do a short-range Gate to get her here, first, but then to there. And then Katri can cast with me to Gate the rest of us home, it's fine.: 

Jisa does not really feel like any of this is fine! Actually! 

...none of that is new. Nothing has been okay since– .....not thinking about Savil right now. 

:Right. Um. Where am I Gating her from?: 

:- Iomedae, where are you, we need to Gate you to us first before we can send you somewhere remote.:

That is not how the spell Gate works but she is assuming that the translation's just behaving a bit oddly around slightly different spells or something. :I don't particularly know how to tell you where I am, if the Telepathy isn't doing it! I'm in some forest that looks identical to all of the forest I have been in since the explosion. I've been on a vaguely southwest bearing since the explosion and I've probably walked twenty, thirty miles.:

Need....is not actually very good at Gating, and relatedly is not very good at precise directionfinding in Mindspeech. 

- she will pull Jisa into the link, it's not at ridiculous range for her or anything. 

Uhhhhh. 

- Jisa will not send :Hi!: in a metaphorically high-pitched mindvoice, since that would sound very stupid. This is so awkward though.

She....will focus on her sense of where this weird person is, according to Need's weird mindlink, and fix a blind Gate over there, and...build a threshold...and raise the Gate...? 

And there's a woman there, blinking in mild surprise at the Gate. She is in magical plate armor and wearing kind of a lot of extremely magic stuff.

:Hello.:

Is she actually stepping across Jisa's Gate or does Jisa need to make a lot of hand gestures about this. She would really prefer not to hold it any longer than she has to. 

- sorry! She can come through! She doesn't really know how this is supposed to work!