He will go away, to a secret meeting with the Osirian government to petition them to shelter some civilians of great interest to the church of Abadar.

The Osirian government is tentatively supportive. They would generally prefer to stay out of the war in Avistan entirely, obviously, but if Cheliax is doing things that endanger the whole planet then it seems appropriate to respond to that, and 'shelter some civilians' is a reasonably practical way to do that which probably doesn't drag them into the war. If it's in Abadar's interests then they expect Abadar will authorize it. 

Well, one of the civilians is Lastwall's chief engineer - honestly, most of their engineers, if Osirion will take them - and one is Freedom. Part of the reason he's asking is that Cheliax might try to kidnap them again and the Dome would keep them safe. But it also means they are more likely to be dragged into war for sheltering them than they would be for most civilians.

They'll ask Abadar. …it is somewhat more awkward for them to take in unchaperoned Avistani teenage girls than to take in civilians fewer of those adjectives apply to. 

…He can send them with a chaperone. If that makes the difference.

Yes, that would definitely be helpful.

Who is an appropriate chaperone?

…her father, or failing that her brother, or another male relative, or a grandmother or something if somehow there are no male relatives available, or her guardian if there are no relatives available at all. 

…Alright. He's very grateful, please send him when they've come to a decision.

They notify him a few hours later that they'll take the civilians, in secret, and they'll have to abide by Osirian law while they're here which would preclude the following things from recent episodes of Freedom Radio (a few things that qualify as evangelizing for Chaotic gods, a few instances of advising people in Cheliax to murder their priests and desert their army), and they will guarantee at least a week's notice if kicking them out but are not prepared to guarantee more notice than that.

He'll return to Vigil to speak with Iomedae, then (And let Jan know about a likely impending attack).

"I am ordering you to relocate on Wealday to the Dome in Osirion. We have reason to think Cheliax is going to make more attempts to kidnap you and you'll be safer in there. I'm appointing Lieutenant Jeres your commanding officer. He will also be your chaperone, as you are required to have one. Alfirin is welcome and encouraged to join you though she will also need a chaperone. They want a legal guardian, so she may have to sign an agreement to the effect that she will treat Jeres as such for as long as she remains there. You will also need to moderate the content of your broadcasts to comply with Osirian law, Jeres has the details on that. Any questions?"

Wow! Iomedae is really deeply unhappy about this on enough levels that they aren't immediately possible to disentangle in her mind. Some is the censorship. Some is the having a legal guardian, she is done having a legal guardian. Some is how upset Alfirin's going to be.

None of that's a question. Cansellarion's busy liberating Cheliax from Hell.  She can evaluate afterwards if he made the tradeoff correctly, and is not anywhere near confident enough he didn't to protest it.  "No, sir."

"Alright. One more thing and this one's not an order... Nefreti Clepati, who is still a little bit prophetic by virtue of being Nethys' high priest, thinks that it may help with some secret things if you invite... someone... to your and Alfirin's wedding."

Iomedae was not going into this declaration in a good mood and so she mostly feels…really upset, actually. That was her business to handle as she liked, and doesn't really seem like it ought to be the subject of prophecy. - set that aside. "...someone I'd get along with?" she asks.

"They're a defector from Cheliax. I don't know them very well as a person but I suspect they could be - personable - if they chose to."

"There's a war on and I have no imminent intentions to marry and would need to talk to Alfirin but if it helps it seems like a not very costly way to help? Is the idea that the defector …would get along with us? Would be happy that America has gay marriage? Would consider it proof of - something important about Good?"

...gay marriage? What does that mean? Marriage between two women? How is that possible - none of this matters.

"I don't know. Clepati did not elaborate on how this helps, just that it might help - with something secret that doesn't bear any obvious relation to the Chelish defector, nor directly to you and Alfirin. She also said that even if it didn't work she'd think it was funny… I understand if you don't want to do this. It's really not a reasonable request to make of an ally."

"I'd very much like to talk to Chelish defectors, it'll help me improve the messaging, and I'd like to think I'm a good influence on them, and so I'm at least intrigued. I…wanted to have more control over what people thought of Alfirin and I, and I think Alfirin's going to be very upset about my orders and I don't want to make that worse. By when do you need to know."

"I was planning to go back to the front in about an hour. And bring you with me, if you're going to talk to the defector."

"Then I'll tell you in an hour." Iomedae feels very unsteady but probably an hour will be long enough to fix that.

He leaves to go plan the defense of Lastwall with Jan.

"Hey…something's wrong."

"I have an hour," says Iomedae. "- so we can ration which parts we spend how much time being upset about. First, Cheliax is probably going to attempt to kidnap me some more so I am being relocated to the Dome in Osirion, as of Wealday, and you are invited to come too, but you're going to hate it."

"...Okay.  Why am I going to hate it - I assume you want me to come with anyways -"