Halie shows up to the Whoa Buoy, naked and carrying a bucket of chopped fried sheep liver.
"May I come aboard?" she calls up in Latin.
One of the sailors yells something unintelligibly in Latin. Then another one yells out, "You'll have to excuse Sal, he's hard to understand until you get used to him. Permission granted, Maga Haile, I'm Paolo." A really short man, almost a boy yells out and then scampers down from the rigging. His Latin is impeccable. "I'm Talia's navigator and loremaster of sorts." He gives you an appraising look, "You're prettier than I expected from Corvus's filia." He seems totally unphased by your Gift. "If I may escort you below to Talia, Sal's getting her and we'll all meet up in Caoimhe's cabin." She spies someone going below decks ahead of you, assuming it's Sal. While Paolo is escorting you to the cabin, you can hear Sal grunting and saying something, and you hear Talia say, "Very well, coming, thanks, Sal." Sal goes above decks, and a few moments later Talia comes out of her sanctum. It appears she has difficulty, as the door doesn't quite open all the way.
"Haile, thanks so much for your quick response. Thank you, Paolo, Haile and I can handle it from here." Tailia is dressed in her new provocative outfit.
It would be strange indeed for anyone to be bothered by Halie's Gift 
"Thank you Paolo. But I hear my pater was quite the heartbreaker before he began to sag in several key areas," she replies.
Before Paolo departs, Halie hands the bucket of still-warm sheep liver to Talia. "I brought these for your crew. Since you described them as being like old dogs," she explains, maintaining a perfectly straight face.
Talia chuckles. "I'll roast them up. Sailors can eat almost everything, but they appreciate it being cooked.
((Forgot about Haile's Gentle Gift! I designed two of Talia's grogs to be unaffected by the gift.))
"So this is her cabin. If there's a way I can keep her aboard, I'd love to. She's a wonderful asset to my crew. She may not realize what she's done by trying to seduce a Maga, but I understood the implications knowing my ship is outside the Aegis. I don't think my Arts are sufficient to transform the pier into something insubstantial move through it, and then allow the pier to reform, so this is a problem for me for some time to come."
Halie seems impressed that Talia isn't repulsed by the organs. And she always likes folk who can take a joke.
"I am not particularly adept at Perdo, and in any case Arcane Connections here would have no effect on Arcane Connections she may have left behind at Litori Orientalis. I can inspect her to fond traces of any magics that the other magus may have used upon her, though."
((this gets into the debate of whether the AC is two way. If Caoimhe can be used to target ACs she may have left behind. It was recently suggested on the Ars forum that ACs are two way... I'll search and find that.))
AFAIK ACs connect to the person, but not to each other. There's a spell that severs all ACs to a person, using that person as the target of the spell.
In any case I don't think Halie has any chance to spont that. Her suggestion was "let her scry, and we'll catch her in the act."
((No, to remove any AC, including fixed, appears to be PeVi base of 30. Technically once the fixing process starts, it becomes essentially fixed, but will fade if the lab work is interrupted by enough time. I know, I'm being paranoid here... But being outside the Aegis makes me think about these things a bit more...comprehensively.))
"So, how would you catch her scrying? She could spend the next few months fixing the connection, and then scry at almost any time. And of course, I could be overly concerned for no reason. Just seems odd to start a covenant a few hours away from an old one, that you 'heard had been disbanded.' Knowing myself, it seems reasonable to verify such a claim, if at the very least for knowing one's neighbors, wouldn't you say? And the Bonisagus said something about our neighbors from across the lake, which strikes me as an inconsistency. I know Godiva sent someone to go get him to join us for lunch, but she was a little girl. Can a little girl convey the message that the covenant you thought had been disbanded really isn't? Is a maga is going to trust a child with that kind of nuanced message? Or is she just going to say to the child, 'tell Actius that our neighbors from across the lake are here. Exactly that.' I don't expect a Bonisagus focused on research to understand the nuance of politics or realize he said something he really shouldn't have. Their existence so close troubles me. I could be looking for trouble where there is none to find. I've done it for much of my life."
A good time is had by both, back at Orientali Litore. That evening, when Caoimhe makes her escape, she needs to make (1) either a Stealth or a Guile/Charm check, depending on whether she's going to sneak out when Godiva's asleep or make excuses for leaving in the middle of the night, and (2) a Visual Awareness check.
Doineann is actually the elder with the best chance of pulling off a Level 15 PeVi to destroy any AC that you may have, but I'm inclined to say that, unless it's two parts of a whole or they're designed to be two-way, that Arcane Connections are normally one way. Caiomhe's hair is an arcane connection to her, but not vice versa. If you take a stick and break it in two, they're AC to each other.
Drystan is actually able to spont a ReHe on the pier that would allow the wood to move aside for the Whoa Buoy to enter the Aegis, if she wants and lets it be known that she does.
"Intellego Vim detects traces of magic cast upon the target, along with the caster's sigil. Higher level effects leave stronger traces, so anything cast at Arcane Connection range will be easy to find. Quaesitorial training allows me to detect whether Muto Vim has been used to alter the sigil, as well."
"I'm inclined to see what happens. It might be a bit of misdirection we can pull off, and they think we are without an Aegis or a very weak one."
Halie nods. "I agree-- let them grow overconfident."
She is interrupted as Caoimhe rounds the hallway. "Talia? Why do you have a naked woman in my cabin?"
"Ahh, Caoimhe, you're back. Meet Haile, she's another maga here."
"I asked Haile here, because I'm concerned about what you left behind in your daliance with Godiva. Things that came off your person that are connections to you. Hair from that wig, for example. The things we touch and use or that are directly from our bodies are connections to us. If you'll recall I made a concerted effort to search about my person when I left. I picked up a stray hair that had fallen, because another magus can make that a permanent connection to me. My ship is outside the Aegis boundary, so it is easy for Godiva to spy upon me in particular, and if she's very good then anywhere you go inside the Aegis. I don't entirely trust them."
"The hair from this wig isn't my hair," Caoimhe replies defensively. "I didn't leave anything behind. And-- for the love of god, will you put some clothes on your friend?"
"I don't care if the hair isn't your hair, the wig is a tool. The tools we use become part of us. If you leave part of the tool behind does is that enough of a connection to you? I don't know, it's why I asked Haile to come aboard."
"She's a maga, she's a guest aboard my ship. She can dress or not dress as she likes. I'm not wearing any clothes either!"
"But if your stray hair is a connection to you, then why isn't this stray hair a connection to the merchant's wife? If I pulled a hair from your head and used it to clean my teeth, then it connects to me instead of to you? Because it stops being your hair once it becomes my tool? That makes no kind of sense," she frowns.
"It depends on the amount of time you own something. If that wig is new, it may be connected to the other person. If it's something you've had for a while the hairs on it may be more connected to you than the other person. The tools you favor have the most connection to you. If you take one of my hairs today, it will still be a good connection to me for 6 or 9 months an entire lock of hair will last years, eventually the connection fades over time. But magi can take those connections and make them permanent. The hairs from a frequently used wig of yours may not have any power at all, or it may be as if she had the whole wig, I don't know. Our most often used tools are connections that last a few days. Did you make that wig, Caoimhe?"
"I don't wear this one more than a couple weeks a year, total," she says. "I didn't make it. I can make them, but they fit better and look more convincing when created by another, who uses your own scalp to model it."
Halie's frown of disapproval deepens. "Perhaps I should not be hearing this," she suggests.