Feytower - Laerdya's Laboratory

Ooh, those are incredibly good suggestions.

Veshti Selmer's place is the most immediately secure, comfortable, and easily available of the options presented, and she prides herself in having people of all walks of life coming and going during the day so she won't have a problem with any of you. Sunrise will remember Veshti has a "no boys overnight" rule, but Sunrise may also believe she can talk her way around that given the circumstances in this case.

Yondalla's temple does have private prayer rooms, but given how closely Rik has been under scrutiny by the Redfangs that might not be the best place to congregate. However, he should remember the temple of Sehanine has a scry-proof room and a high priestess who might be willing to see profit in this venture.

The chimera farm is secure in the sense of not having Redfangs coming and going at all hours, but on the other hand... acid-breathing ducklings. The family probably tries pretty hard not to have random civvies running around just because the liability runs kinda high. Still, if you needed a staging ground outside the city for "going into the forest" stuff, that's a good place.

[TW: Drug Use] Sithani, you also know of a big open abandoned place outside the city walls: the ancient temple to your patron where the kids go to get high and leave their paraphernalia. You don't think sleepovers are the best idea but while the dreams might be disturbing, probably no one would die.

Couple of things to throw out here:

One: While Rik says this kidnapping isn't targeted at him because there would be hundreds of other children to kidnap, remember that those mothers took oaths of secrecy as part of the Yondallan fertility ritual. (The secrecy is a throttling gate to keep the temple from being crushed by the high demand of everyone wanting their own made-to-order god-baby.) So it is possible the kidnappers don't know Rik has other children; if they believe Laerdya and Rik were romantically/sexually involved, they may think Laerdya was an old flame of Rik's, as opposed to one petitioner among hundreds.

Two: I understand why Rik is reticent to get Thorn involved with all this; Thorn went into hiding after Rik was murdered and his location hasn't been shared with Rik (to the angst of everyone involved), which is very fresh in his mind. That said, Reverence is willing to pass messages between Thorn and Rik, and could arrange a meeting between Thorn and someone else. As long as Rik isn't attending, Thorn would not likely be in danger; the Redfangs who are looking for Thorn don't know to follow anyone who isn't Rik or Abbie.

Three: It is entirely possible that Treygis isn't the mastermind behind the kidnapping. However, if he is his mother's right-hand in running the crime family, it's reasonable to believe that he would be aware of his family's involvement. It takes a lot of bodies to travel into the Silverwoods, commandeer a probably-guarded ox-cart full of gold, and get it back safely and quietly into the city. Whoever is behind this will need loyal people and lots of them: that points to family, not freebooters. A mafia don worth his salt should be aware of the movings and shakings in his family.

While Rik is correct that Thorn can't know about the kidnapping (having been away from the family for a year), he can tell them quite a bit about Treygis and how to talk to him, if someone wanted to feel him out for information in a sneaky manipulative manner. Thorn also knows which members of the family are closest to Treygis, which is very useful information if someone wanted to kidnap, interrogate, imitate, or otherwise shenanigan. Remember that he told Abbie and Rik he "hadn't met all the cousins yet", but he has met the ones which most closely support Treygis in his day-to-day work.

Since Sunrise and Glen have brought up the Thorn/Treygis angle, it would not be unwise to gently push Father Rik on his answer.

16 ( 8+8 ), it's not her best work, but hopefully the lock isn't broken