"If that's what you think is best."

He can lead her over to a temple of Erastil, the one where he had a conversation not too long ago.

“You can find your way back to the Palace and orphanage okay, right?  If a Sower isn’t any help you can always just leave the child at the orphanage, it’s what they are supposed to be for.”

He feels the need to justify himself or something for some reason.

“We can tell the family committee at the convention to propose some new taxes to better fund orphanages or something.”

He turns to leave.

She enters, along with Ot, and looks around for an unoccupied Sower.

It's starting to calm down around here, which means that Narcis got a minute to catch his breath and can be interrupted at it. "- hello again. Who's this little one?"

"His name is Ot. I was staying at his mother's inn, but she was killed in the fighting last night. One of the clerks at the palace suggested I take him to an orphanage, but the one I went to — didn't seem like any place to bring up a child."

"They aren't. No father in evidence?"

She shakes her head. "I was able to find one of her other relatives but she said she didn't want him."

"And wouldn't point you on to more amenable ones?"

"If she knew of any she didn't tell us so. —She also told us to take him to an orphanage."

He gives her a bit of a hard look. "He's an orphan, wouldn't you say?"

Oh no, is he mad at her? "Yes, I'd say so."

"This church doesn't have an orphanage. What are you looking for here?"

"One of the other delegates thought the temple might know of a better place to leave him than an orphanage."

"Nope. It's families or it's strangers, and orphanages are the strangers who make it their business, unless someone's meaning to look out for this lad in particular."

"It doesn't seem right to just leave him there but I don't know what else to do."

"Mm?"

She wishes she were talking about this with any other priest of Erastil. This is a pathetic and contemptible thing to wish, obviously.

"It seems rather like — abandoning — a child, like we were talking about yesterday, to leave him in a place like that."

"He'd probably live."

"I'm not sure that he would, sir. Lots of children die even when they aren't being raised in a place like that."

"And?"

"...And so it feels like it would be wrong to just leave him there, when I know it wouldn't be a good place for him to grow up and there's a good chance he'd die of it. But I don't know what else I'd do with him instead."

"Well, what do you normally do with children when you care how they grow up?"

Is this a trick question? Why can't he just tell her what she's supposed to do?

"...If it were one of mine, I'd try and bring them up how I thought was right, if I could. If it was someone else's it would depend on what the problem was, only it didn't really seem like telling the woman at the orphanage she was doing it wrong would help."

"What would help, then?"

"...I don't know how to make the orphanages be an alright place to bring up a child. The woman there said they're always like that."