"Oh thank all loving gods," Khesanai says, letting out a great breath of relief. 

"Is there, um, a reason you're shackled to the ground?"

"They're from far enough away that the fact that I don't have a spellbook on me wouldn't tell them I was helpless even if they knew a wizard from a sorcerer from a hen's tooth."

"Would being shackled to the ground stop you if you did have spells?"

She gives as much of a shrug as she can in her position. "No, but they don't know that."

"Mm. Still."

"What are your names?"

"I'm Khesanai and she's Havalya."

To the demons: "The girl's name is Havalya and for what it's worth she thinks you're being silly for still having me restrained like this."

"Well, that's interesting information if true," says Nesifra with a raised eyebrow and a slight smile. "It's going to be inconvenient not knowing the local languages ourselves."

"How immortal are you?" wonders Sovarith. "Eh, you probably don't want us to try taking your languages even if it wouldn't kill you, never mind."

"I am extremely immortal and very curious!"

"There's a way for Endarkened to learn languages pemanently by magic but it involves... a sacrifice, I suppose you could say... of someone who speaks the language or languages, once per Endarkened who needs to learn them, and it's not very pleasant for the person being sacrificed," says Nesifra.

"Not very pleasant like serrated knives or like metaphorical serrated knives to the soul?"

Slight smile. "Oh, the knives aren't serrated."

"Huh. Heated? Coated in bullet ant venom?"

She shakes her head. "Plain obsidian. And I don't have my notes with me so it might take me an extra try to work out the details; it's not something we often had use for at home."

"Huh. Well. I'm very immortal, very curious, and, unfortunately, very used to shit happening to me, so if you want to try it, I'm game."

She shrugs. "It would be convenient. If you don't mind trying then I think I will."

"I'll try nearly anything once."

"Twice, I hope, in case the first one doesn't work out."

"Well you see after the first time I'll be able to make an informed decision instead of running off of curiosity and flippancy."

"Fair enough."

"--Oh, hey, can you ask if they've got anything contraceptive going on, I had a birth control charm but I'm pretty sure it came off with the rest of what I was wearing."

"Havalya wants to know what the odds are that you carelessly got her pregnant," Elodea informs Sovarith.