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Remember, you can make use of stuff in other storylines.  Sil's transformation triggers Jaylene's revivification.  How many days is it until the necromantic Master is killed?  If it's not too long, you can have some time pass (rescuing Tazar, Puppy's memorial, stating that days pass, a conference with the recovering Sulder ... and then Sulder becomes aware of Maalok's death and the Horror that owned him being passed to a new host.

There is the Horror stored in the Catacombs.  The Horror now moving would like to rejoin with it one.  Elston (if he's really a good guy) thinks he knows how the Lance can destroy them, with the aid of the forces at Base.  And the Horror Jayene holds is also a grave danger if the others rejoin.  The best hope is to get it moving and get ahead of the other one.

In the meantime, Alda has been the despair of people trying to train her.  She learns and forgets.  Sometimes she remembers for Jaylene.  Jaylene has been reading the memoirs of the three other revivified Lances.  Maybe we learn a little about the leadership and war duties of the Lance, and see Jaylene moved by what they did, and thinking that her elevation was a mistake.  Maybe she shares this with Alda ... ?  Spends time in prayer--which leaves her more confused than before?  Maybe a parallel with Alda here?

Or maybe it's the attack on Kha and Sil that Sulder picks up?  That puts it a few days earlier.  We could learn that Sulder has had something like a seizure--Behira showing him some of the terror that she sees, or that he feels the power that Sil unleashes at Blossom.  It's not quite the Council of Elrond, but you can use it to give Jaylene about half of the certainty--and all of the determination--that she felt about rescuing Tazar.

And if Saundon is a good guy, maybe you could even have Saundon's priest come with news of something.  The attacks on Kha and Sil are aboveground, and within Saundon's demense.  They could even bring word that one of Behira's Founders has not been seen in the air, that she was transformed more than once, and attacked, and is not what she was.

Of course, you have to find time where Tazar has been.  Is he determined to hide?  To defend against magic?  Maybe it's Alda who knows where to find him, maybe some event drives him to run to Jaylene with news.  Maybe HE felt the drive of magic somewhere ... maybe interrupts that Council, or is found waiting when it's over.

One thing Tazar would not do is hang around the Temple, with all its magic.

Yes, this is more, not less, before you go underground.  Don't worry about that.  Tighten up the underground journey, and if it takes 120,00 breathless words, let it.  Readers buy breathless words.

The real point here is that you've got so much to work with because of your multiple timelines.

Heck, you could even have Marion report a dream!