Vampire Lore!  From school and not a sketchy pamphlet!  Her smile becomes realer as she hears that!

"We have a wizard at our monastery that knows all about positive energy, or at least, she's trying to learn.  I should ask her about vampires!  And yeah, it's like monk training, just got to keep going no matter what."  She nods at that, but her smile falters some at the thought of the endless hours of practice.

"Any other thoughts Sower?  If not I'll guess we'll be on our way!"

"I don't know much about snails besides which vegetables they'll kill but I'd think it'd get thirsty faster walking instead of waiting in its shell."

“Oh, uh.  We did not think of that objection.  I don’t know how long snails can wait to drink and it was a pretty long drought.  That’s why she licked up some snake blood!  But I guess that doesn’t work either?”

She glances at Tetula, hoping she has an idea.

“If you think of a good story where a snail waits something out in its shell you could have someone copy it down into the back, we left some blank pages!”

"Maybe so, maybe so. Thank you and yours for the book, and you let me know if you need anything from me or mine."

Tetula sets off with Gabi towards the monastery.

"Are you a monk of Irori?"

Gabi was actually picked for a bit more weapons training, stealth, and social subterfuge, but she basically thinks of herself as a monk, and she wouldn't mention that other part anyway!

"Yep!  Lot of footwork and punching and kicking and training!  Are you a wizard in addition to a cleric, is that how you knew about vampires eating positive energy?"

"I actually became a cleric this morning! I was a wizard before."

"That's cool!  Since you're a wizard and you said vampires eat positive energy, do you think a vampire could eat other vampires to eat their negative energy and would that make the vampire Good instead of Evil?"

Gabi glances down a somewhat sketchy alley, looking carefully, and then decides to lead them through it.

"I don't know anything about vampires! Maybe it could. Although you have to wonder why the vampires didn't think of that."

"Maybe because they're too Evil and not perfectly lawful neutral like Irori?"

"Being Evil doesn't mean you're stupid."

She is about to repeat more praise for Irori when she has a cleverer idea.

“Sometimes Evil means you take the simpler easier thing.  Like -“

She hesitates… the Evil the Sisterhood did before the Four Day War is fine and even normal to admit to, right?

”- simply beating your student instead of giving them a chance to take a punishment that teaches about what they did wrong and makes them stronger!”

There, Evil in the past, perfect Lawful Neutral in the present!

”So the vampires are so Evil they don’t think of any more complicated ideas instead of just drinking the blood of the living!”

"So the idea is that if you're trying to be Good you're more constrained so you end up coming up with cleverer ideas within the constraints? Like writing a poem?"

Gabi does not know much about poetry writing, but it sounds like Tetula is agreeing with her!  She talks quickly moving past her uncertainty.

"Yeah!  Do you like writing?  You should talk to Lili, I mean Lilly!  She loves reading and wants to learn how to write really good, not just reports and stuff, like stories.  She came up with most of the parable you heard earlier!  I helped too."

She leads them to an even narrower alley, one that is a close fit for Gabi, then remembers that Tetula is bigger than her.

"We can go around, it's not much slower."

"It's a nice parable! I'd like to talk with her about writing. I've never written anything really, but there's always a first time." 

"I can try to make my way through the alley!"

"Let's do it then!"

Tetula can squeeze through, but she will get bits of dust and soot all over her clothes and hair!

"And the Abbey is just around this way, it's built underneath an old crematorium!"

"I look so silly!" Tetula exclaims with glee. She draws a design on her arm with a bit of the soot. 

Gabi laughs at that.  In between her and Nuria, she's pretty sure Chaotic Good people are great!

"Do you have a prestidigitation?  I wouldn't mind getting the worst of it off, even if I'm not as bad off as you.  This is my nicer set of clothes."

"Yeah, let's." She prestigidates herself and Gabi. 

And she leads them onward!  The crematorium is just down the street from her shortcut, with a crudely made open palm symbol over the entrance.

She leads her inside and through a hallway, to an unusual open door.  It is apparent the door slides rather then swings and shut it would blend into the wall.  Gabi pauses to explain quickly.

"This used to be kind of secret but not really because all the beggars knew to stay away from the crematorium and I bet the city's authorities knew from that so really its just ordinary commoners that didn't know."

"Why did you keep it secret from them?" Tetula asks with utter lack of guile.

Gabi begin to lead them through a long, gradually spiraling downward, hallway, lit by distantly spaced continual flames.

"You know... I'm not quite sure?"

And then she remembers she hasn't explained their full epic history!  She begins speaking quickly.

"Did I remember to tell you we used to be the Sisterhood of Eiseth, and worshipped Eiseth, not Irori?  And then she and all her sworn followers abandoned us.  And before that, there was tension between them and the Church of Asmodeus because we wouldn't take their treacherous shit and killed someone every time they tried pulling some contract thing on us.  Except I didn't know that at the time because I was younger but Dia knew and told me because she is a little older and was good at inferring details and trusted with not spilling anything to Asmodeans that would tell the Church and have to die for it.  And before that, before Aroden died they used to be actually totally secret because the nation wasn't ruled by Hell!"

Ah! Too much detail.  She pauses to talk a breath.  She thinks she avoided any current secrets?  Just older secrets, which they want to tell, to retaliate against their abandonment!

"So yeah.  I guess they kind of just kept trying to be secret even after Aroden died even though they weren't a real secret."

There is brighter light up ahead.

"That makes sense! Do you know anything about how you changed going from a Lawful Evil group to a Lawful Neutral group? I'm trying to learn how to not be evil so I can serve Cayden Cailean better."

They come to a large open chamber seems to open up to the sky.  On second glance, it's a very larger permanent illusion on the ceiling (or maybe multiple permanent illusions considering how big the chamber is across).  Archery targets have been set up on the far end of it, and space marked off.  Even as big as the chamber is, the targets are close compared to the potential range of the long bows they are practicing with.

Yes, they are definitely totally Lawful Neutral now!  And they were totally properly Lawful before that.  Now how to say this right.  Gabi slows down and speaks at a mostly normal speed.

"Our Abbess has been working hard at changing how we do things.  She was really smart and figured out Irori would want her for a cleric.  Normally once we turned 16, they would step up training enough that about one person in a cohort of four would die before they were 19.  And even before we turned 16 most of us would take a maiming injuries that need a full restoration for, not just a cure light wounds.  I lost vision in an eye once before they healed it!  Anyway, Irori's book says if you have to rely on healing like that for just training, your training is flawed and the healing is a crutch!  And Thea doesn't have that much healing yet anyway!  So we've been training different!  No temporary blindness for me!"

Her voice picks up in chipperness at the end.

She waits for a lull in the archery practice.

"This is Tetula!  She's a cleric and a delegate and I was going to show her some books in the library!  Let the Abbess know when she gets back!"