"Yes, that's completely fine."

    "I'll go get started, then. We'll need a couple hours probably."

"That's fine, we have errands to run. And one of our stops on the way back is a pretty big town," he directs at Blai, "I'm expecting you'd rather get the people most in need in two places than do it twice in one."

"Yes."

"All right. Let me get everything else sorted out here and we can head over to the donation center."

There's a desk in an alcove off the hall with a complement of lay staff behind it; he asks them to have someone get the refugees settled in and maybe bring the ailing woman to the healers' wing to see if they can do anything for her. With that taken care of, he sets off through the building. "Whatever you get in the donation box will be yours," he explains on the way, "but it's customary to donate part of it to the church in cases like this where they've helped with the logistics; I'd probably give between a tenth and a quarter after the room rental fee."

"That makes sense, thank you for the figures."

The donation center smells like freshly baked bread and vegetable stew, and is administered by a gold half-dragon who greets him by name and asks if he's back for more food.

"If you can spare it, Liss, but actually we're about ready to get moving thanks to Select Blai here, and a lot of the refugees don't have shoes. And we could use some more blankets, too, if you have any good ones. Can you help us out?"

    "Sure, of course, let me see what we have." And he heads for the back.

"Do you know if Iomedae's church does anything like this?" Raafi asks while they wait. "I could see it going either way, with a god of triage."

"Managing donations? I know they accept donations - it's a favored option for people who want to adjust their alignment and have the means - but the ones I hear about are always monetary."

"Huh, and that works, if they're doing it specifically to change their alignment? I guess I'd expect it to help, but not very efficiently."

"The money can still do good even if given with the most calculating intent. It is known to work. I have heard" from the insurance adjuster, who he is almost sure he remembers the name of and just isn't sure if he's still alive, "that the Abadarans in Osirion, Abadar's theocracy, are trying to figure out a range of effective rates for a relatively standardizable Evil - exposing an infant - but they don't think they'll ever have it very precise because the motives and circumstances and attitude still matter some and vary across various possible objects of research."

"Something is definitely working differently between our worlds, if that's coming up often enough to try to test in the first place."

"You don't have... poor farmers who have a bad year and can't keep a baby alive?"

"If they're not going to be able to keep the baby alive anyway it doesn't count as evil, I'm pretty sure. I mean, if it's a genuine mistake that they had the child in the first place, if they're intentionally having children they aren't going to be able to provide for one way or another that's a problem."

"I am unmarried but imagine that probably the ideal thing to do in that situation is abstain, it's just it's often very hard for people to do the ideal thing. Pharasma really doesn't like it when babies die because they don't have alignments and then She has them piling up in the Boneyard, and it's presumably also very bad for the baby. - before you ask I am deeply confused about Pharasma's behavior in many ways including this one, She's in charge and doesn't have to limit Herself by intervention budget like everyone else and yet babies die even when no one wants them to."

"We don't have, uh, several, of those problems... Limbo isn't the best afterlife but there's no special problem with babies going there as far as I know, and in particular abortions are fine if you do them fairly early? I'd know if they weren't, I've done enough of them and used to keep a close enough eye on my alignment. Plus we have herbs to keep the whole question from coming up at all."

"- children don't grow up after they die in our afterlives, properly. There might be a point at which abortions are fine but if there is I don't know when it would be, it'd have to be before the baby has a soul. Possibly there are herbs that do that and they just aren't reliable or available enough and I don't know about them for the obvious reason."

"Huh. Well, it's usually pretty safe to assume that if someone here doesn't want to have children, they'll probably be able to arrange for that, and if they can't it's because something has gone wrong, and maybe it's wrong in a way they should have known better than to do but that's not a usual thing."

"More things to try to cram into a sending to an Abadaran, I suppose."

"And I should get you some seeds and cuttings to bring with you, too - really at this point I should be looking for a small Bag of Holding."

"It seems prudent."

"I'm sure I'll come across one by spring if I try. - speaking of which, have you put any thought into how you're going to want to spend the next six months? I usually start heading south around now."

"If I'm the only cleric in the world with channels I should either park in a big city or, if someone cares to teleport me around, pop between them - there's an arch-healer on Golarion, she's in different cities every day tapping people with her unlimited Regeneration and Remove Disease -"

"I don't have that much tolerance for cities, but I should be able to figure out some kind of schedule that works for you, maybe do a tour of southern towns and bring people in to see the sights with my extra capacity every day. There would be a risk of me disappearing on you if something comes up, but I have the wand of Sending."

"I did notice that you have a wand of Sending but I wouldn't expect you to spend its charges on notifying me that you've been held up when I'll be able to observe that directly."

"I might not if it was just going to be a day or two, but if I get caught up dealing with a disease outbreak or something it's likely to be longer than that, and if you wanted to come help I'd still want to coordinate on not spreading it."

"I doubt I'm much use with a disease outbreak, I only have one third-circle slot a day."