First things first:Time Stop, Moment of Prescience, Greater Heroism, Magic Circles against evil and chaos – because anything that can land a  dominate on Naima can probably land one on him – 

Where are you? Do you have the body? 

Nex, south of Sarfa, where we were going to clean up undead. I think it fell. Can't look down at it. I'm confused about why I'm able to say this, actually -

Her invisibility is broken from the attack. She flies down into a crevice in the earth, watching herself.

Because it's a trap – not that he expects it to matter. He waves over his nearest assistant, tells him to get a sending to Catherine – Naima dominated, killed Shawil, south of Sarfa, come – and teleports in, invisible and mind-blanked. 

Heading down into some kind of crevice, she notes, not actually aware that he's here, and kind of trying not to think about it. 

Her feet touch the floor, and she looks up, eyes scanning for falling dirt that might indicate anyone else entering the cave behind her.

He can see it, now that it's been pointed out. He'll use his dimension steps to get to the bottom, where – yes, Naima is visible – so he'll cast Break Enchantment, with just a little twist of fate to make absolutely sure it lands. 

She feels something land, and then tries to move her arms to check whether this made things better or worse. Works.

- okay, I think that did it. Still have to find whoever it is.

He's not going to assume it worked just yet. Ordinarily they could just kill and resurrect her, to be sure, but that's out of the question, with the baby. 

Check later. Right now the most important thing is finding whoever did this. Is there anything unusual to his Arcane Sight? 

There's a hidden entrance in the crevice, illusioned to look like ordinary stone. Beyond it, a corridor into a larger complex.

He points it out with an illusion marker, since he's not about to reveal his location just yet. Through there. 

After me, I suppose, she says, and then realizes that she would rather be invisible again if she's going to head into the base of something that can land a dominate on her. Not that that stopped it the first time. She activates her invisibility ring again anyway, and flies through.

Entering. Are we waiting for the others?

"I'm here," she sends Élie, "Forty feet above and twenty north of your marker, meet there for a telepathic bond?"

Alfirin's here – to Naima.

And to Alfirin – Actually, you'd better meet us down here. 

She swoops down to join them and lets Élie put up the telepathic bond.

Naima's free? What's the situation?

She seems to be but we should confirm later. We don't know who's responsible but I suspect they're past that suspicious hole in the wall. 

It's not easy to land a dominate on Naima. It wasn't her. Dispater doesn't leave Hell. It could be Geb?

Understood. Summon first?

Good idea.

He tells Naima to hold back – he's sending in an invisible stalker to scout. 

All right, staying outside.

There are traps. There are not incredibly impressive traps, relative to what they've dealt with over the course of the last year. And there are other defenses, and illusion spells - but, again, underwhelming relative to what they've seen in the past. 

It's a lich. Apparently there are just random liches hiding under nondescript rocks sometimes.

Apparently. Either it's a lich who's been hiding under a rock for the last decade and got really unlucky with who it decided to pick a fight with on emerging... or it's not that. It's cramped in here, and there's too many unfamiliar magic constructions - she doesn't want to risk a disjunction. Greater Dispel Magic on the lich, and she'll follow up with a dominate in a moment -

And Naima pinpoints Alfirin's location. Evil eye, stormbolts, misfortune, wail of the banshee, slumber.

That's not good.

Stormbolts she can dodge, misfortune she can shake off, wail of the banshee she can redirect to the lich (who will be wholly unaffected but that's fine), and slumber she can resist. That is, however, decidedly not good.

Nope. He's going to go ahead and risk a Disjunction – the space isn't big, he can get both Naima and the lich at once. 

Yep, that hits both of them. And, unfortunately, also cuts through the middle of at least one volatile magical experiment. There's a crash, and a flash of something exploding -

Time Stop.

- okay, well, she's not entirely sure what's happening at this point, and is pretty concerned about several elements of it, but most immediately there is a frozen explosion behind her, Elie has presumably pulled her into a shared time stop, and she is going to spend the entire span of it running as far away from the explosion as possible.

This works, at least.

Ten subjective seconds later, the explosion fills the room. She's put enough space between herself and it that she gets singed, and not entirely destroyed. 

This is not what happens to the lich. The lich is gone.