"If I were you I would have more questions about me, but I don't think there is anything so definitively urgent on my end I must disclose it even if you have other priorities, your majesty."

"There is much I wish to know about you and your world, but I'm afraid there are others to whom it is urgent for me to speak tonight. Those of your advisors who are traveling with the army will arrive tomorrow, and you will have time to confer with them before I announce the crusade to the troops. In the meantime, Inheritor watch over you and bless your work."

"- or about the event with the Wardstone, or anything about the Desnans one of whom you indicated you might re-try, your majesty?" Like he is totally willing to take a queen's word for it if she has a lot of other urgent things to do but he wasn't actually thinking that she needed to know the exact date of his departure from his timeline, here.

"I had intended to speak to Thall personally," because she has now gathered that he's a third-circle wizard and expects he can be persuaded that he wants to serve with the crusade, "but if there is information you would have me know about him or his compatriots, I will hear it. As for the Wardstone — I have gathered that there is no longer a grave threat to Kenabres, and that many believe it to have been a miracle, though I understand you to have doubts. From the accounts I heard I had taken it to be the sort of occurrence largely beyond the comprehension of mortals; is it not so?"

"I do not claim to have a complete explanation, your majesty, but there are some details to what I observed that might or might not be relevant?"

She nods. "I will hear them, then."

"Were you already aware that the Wardstones contain hosts of angels? It was news to me."

"I had suspected that something like that might be the case — it had not escaped my notice that the creation of the Wardstones aligned so closely with the total departure of the angels from our forces. But Heaven did not clarify the exact nature of the Wardstones, and I had assumed that a full explanation would be too costly to be worthwhile."

"...do you happen to know if that sort of expense persists if I, having already learned of such a thing, then relay it -"

"I do not know. I suspect that much of the cost would lie in the initial communication, but perhaps not all of it."

"In your estimation then should I go on or no?"

This is really not her area of expertise, but the gods do not lay upon their shoulders only those loads which they are well-suited to bearing. 

"If it is relevant to the security of the Wardstone line and its ability to repel further incursions, I would hear it, but it may be wisest to omit details that are of less relevance to such matters."

"...it might wind up being useful to the functioning of other Wardstones if I can access them and do a similar though less urgent procedure?" he says after a moment's thought.

She nods. "I will see to it that you are authorized to have access to the other Wardstones along the Mendevian line, though a full tour will likely need to wait until after you take Drezen. If you wish, I will seek permission from the forces along the other lines as well, and I expect Lastwall to grant it."

"- oh, what should I know about your lines of communication with other signatories, such as Cheliax?"

She outlines the lines of communication she has with the other treaty signatories. Each of the major powers holding a significant stretch of the border, as well as the Church of Abadar, has a designated representative to whom a Sending can be directed (for his crusade, that representative will initially be Baroness Gaunther, though he may appoint a different one later when he has the time to formally introduce them to the other signatories). Lastwall's representative was among those killed in one of the parallel assaults on the Wardstone line, but reportedly is alive again as of this morning. Irrisen and its holdings are generally very unresponsive to attempts to communicate, and generally do not initiate communications with other signatories. There are provisions that allow for particularly urgent and important messages to be conveyed via a teleporter, if no other method is suitable, without that teleporter then being arrested, subject to various restrictions intended to avoid this being used for espionage, but Mendev has sufficiently few people who can teleport that they almost never actually make use of this provision.

(In this case, she expects that if she informs the other treaty signatories that for classified reasons they should permit him to access their Wardstones, Lastwall will permit this and Cheliax will not.)

Are these reasons in fact now classified, then -

She is advising but not ordering him to keep them secret, though he should of course apply his discretion if a situation where it would obviously be a good idea to tell someone comes up. She currently intends not to share them with other signatories to the treaty.

Understood.

He THINKS he is maybe done taking up her time for now if she needs to be off about other business.

Very well. He is dismissed, then.

(Shortly after he leaves, one of her guards speaks to Fiducia Rathimus, who makes his way upstairs.)

Oh thank goodness an Abadaran is on it. He still hopes Boian gets back to him - if nothing else Boian has the Travel domain! - but Rathimus seems within the expected range.

Woljif is attempting to teach Lann and Seelah how to read. This would probably be easier if they weren't in the middle of a loud, crowded party, or if Seelah weren't a little drunk.

"So, what'd she want to talk to you about?"

"It might be secret."

That's such an obvious question for him to not be ready for. "Uh, my career plans."

"...Do clerics have a lot of different career options?"