Alexeara Cansellarion is in his study when he gets the vision from his Goddess, which means he must have fucked up quite badly.
"I love you. I'm really scared. I can't - I can't lose you. I don't know what I'd do."
"You're not going to lose me. Lastwall can protect me, and worst case, I'll explode on them and Lastwall will raise me. And absolute worst case the goddess Iomedae will probably intervene, because She can't afford to have Cheliax capture me either. It's going to fail, and it's going to make Cheliax look stupid and weak, and it's going to make them actually weaker since they can't use the Wish to do anything else. …but I'm scared too. Because - because I didn't know this was possible at all, and -"
"And there could be another dozen things like it, that we don't know about yet and won't until -"
"Yeah. I don't know how they found out this time. But they're probably not perfect at it. I can wear an explosive vest all the time, though it makes stupid workplace accidents a lot likelier and stupider. …they're also going to try to protect you tomorrow, just in case, though we don't think Cheliax knows it might want to target you."
"...Okay." The prospect of being kidnapped herself is not that much scarier on top of the prospect of Iomedae being taken. "So… two explosive vests? Or are there more?"
"There are other targets. I don't know how many, or if - gods. The explosive vests show our hand to Cheliax to some degree. I'm not sure if that's worth it for all of the targets. I guess that's Cansellarion's decision. Let's figure out how many we can make tonight and then he can figure out how to allocate them."
"I mean. I don't have C4. They're going to be some stupid jerry-rigged sack of gunpowder and greek fire…no wearing one all the time. Can do three or four maybe." Except that she'd have to let go of Iomedae to do those and that feels terrifying right now.
Hughughug. "I don't know if that gives Cheliax ideas or not. Probably not to an important degree. Glad it's not my decision. I wish I was the kind of paladin who isn't scared, it's really distracting being this scared - I'm going to need to do something so I don't sound scared on the show tomorrow -"
"Might be a spell for that. While Lastwall's putting spells on you anyways."
Iomedae goes to find Cansellarion in the extremely early morning to tell him there are four vests, and ask if there's a spell for not sounding scared on the radio. Also she'd like to know if it'll feel like anything, when it happens, and if it's all right for her to react on radio or if she's supposed to pretend she didn't notice.
"Anyone who could resist a wish transporting them would notice… I don't know if you'd notice if it just didn't work because you were in the Dome in Sothis… I will ask Morgethai that when she gets here to cast some of the spells. If they think we're broadcasting from the Dome then maybe they won't guess that we knew, so if Morgethai thinks you wouldn't notice then you should try not to react."
She nods. Doesn't reiterate the question about not sounding scared because he's probably very busy, though the sounding-scared is noticeable every time she opens her mouth. "That was all."
"It's going to be okay. We have quite a few protections to put on you, and if they don't work we'll get you back… Some of them will help with the fear, too."
"I don't want - you should only get me back if it's worth it. You probably should because it'll be very bad if Cheliax knows the things I know, but - the important thing is winning the war."
"I know. We're going to get you back because that will help us win the war - well. We're going to try quite hard."
Iomedae nods. And then leaves, because he's really probably quite busy and she has a broadcast to prepare, even if her heart isn't entirely in it.
"If she were in the Dome she wouldn't notice the attempt," Morgethai says when she arrives.
"Alright. I'll let her know, and with luck Cheliax will believe we broadcast from the Dome as a matter of course. Thank you for coming here to help." It's important to thank Chaotic Good allies, because otherwise they might help less often.
"Any time, though ideally not too many of them. I'm going to leave before the show starts; I want to be in Andoran if anything happens, and it's where my own precautions live. Gallipsiwhoop will stay with you and notify me if anything goes wrong." Gallipsiwhoop isn't visibly present at all.
"I will be departing too. Could I travel with you as far as Andoran, Madame Morgethai? My boots can't get all the way in one hop." Catherine says.
"You may." Communal Mind Blank. Extended Greater Heroism all around, Gallipsiwhoop doing half of them.
Protection from Spells. ("I'd like the gems returned afterwards.")
Extended Mass Owl's Wisdom.
Morgethai offers her hand to Catherine and drops them off in an unfamiliar garden, presumably somewhere in Almas, and then gestures invitingly …straight at the garden wall. "I'm not sure if you had time for tea," she says.
Catherine blinks. "I have no pressing business." She touches the wall tentatively.
It lets her through. The room on the other side is under a Mage's Private Sanctum, and has, as promised, a table for tea. "I was planning to listen to the radio myself," she says. "It's an entertaining show. I am the more impressed by it learning a bit more of its host," in particular that she aired that episode about Lastwall while sheltering in Vigil, but this is presumably obvious enough to not be worth the (minimal) risk of saying it aloud.