"I'm not actually thinking I'd put it on here, my stages are in Ostenso, though I suppose if she's got a different idea I'd best be ready to hurry..."

"I think Ostenso isn't far enough to be safe anyway if she's one of the more mercurial types and takes something badly, that's within teleport distance. It might not even be much harder for her to reach than Westcrown... if you need me to help I will, dealing with powerful evil wizards just makes me nervous."

"Honestly she - hasn't actually done anything that bad besides 'be a lich', has she? I suppose she may have broken into that one interviewer's apartment but she didn't hurt him and he's published since then so she didn't take offense to the interview being distributed either. I know becoming a lich involves doing something horrible of some kind but she's not a vampire, she doesn't have to keep at it to go on every day. Right?"

"I don't know of anything horrible she's doing right now but there's usually something - raising people as undead, if nothing else, and I saw the pamphlet where she was planning to do that to one of the urchins. I don't think stopping would kill a lich, though, you hear about them being locked up in a tomb for thousands of years before escaping and there's nobody there to be evil to."

"So she could just want to see her autobiography staged. As a musical. I could do corpse makeup and get all the kids in the children's troupe in badger costumes..."

She really wants to trust Laia on this, the goddess says that everyone can be redeemed for a reason, but her instincts there are fighting with visions of kids dressed in badger costumes being killed and raised as undead by a badger obsessed lich.

"I'll try and find someone who would know more, but - I hope you're right, and you succeed."

“Doesn’t need to kill to survive, but that isn’t much protection against wanting to. Hard to predict. I suppose in that way she’s the same as any evil wizard, except too far to turn back. If you decide to flee the city about it, let me know a day in advance and I’ll see what I can do. Or of you go through with it, I’ll likely catch the first show.”

"I'm going to write it but I will give myself plenty of time to get cold feet about performing."