She hears his voice catch, but she doesn't quite pick up on what it means, and it's not the sort of thing you can just point out and ask about.

"I'm worried that all the Evil nobles are going to make it hard to write a good constitution. I thought when they stood up and started talking about how they wanted to kill innocent people all the normal people would realize they were obviously Evil but that's not how the votes went.

I think... after what they did to Judiciary... I trust Delegate Cansellarion to be Good, but he's not from Cheliax, people from other places are surprised by all kinds of things that are just normal here, I don't think he really understands just how bad the nobles can get. So we're probably going to have to do most of it through Rights, saying people have a right not to be ruled by nobles who do all the awful things we can think of, and a right not to have those things done to them, and a right to justice if their nobles try anyway, and a right to travel without a pass so they can tell the Queen, and a right to have trials heard by a paladin rather than an Asmodean, and that sort of thing. And probably it still won't be enough but maybe it'll be closer."

"That was scary too. Not just the speeches, how close the votes were. I don't like what some of those nobles are going to do with the constitution. We're not going to get everything, but I think we can get a lot if we do this right."

"You've got the right idea with rights. We don't have judiciary anymore, so that committee is our castle. Last week we were all friendly and agreed not to talk about some rights, because it might overlap with judiciary. This time, we make sure everything is in there. Right to justice by good cleric or a paladin, rights that help more people get a good lawyer like Lluisa, if she's not the only one. Right to a new noble if your noble repented but is still doing evil things. We hold onto rights committee, it's something we can use to get a lot done."

"We also have more friends than it might look like. When we were up there trying to save judiciary, or at least keep Lluisa, some off them were attacking Lluisa and Valia and all of us. Other nobles gave speeches disagreeing. The angry nobles were going to just take the judiciary, but they gave it to the paladin instead. Some of the nobles aren't as bad, enough we can work with them at least. Jilia might even secretly be one of us."

"Secretly, uh — sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by that—"

"I'm putting together everything I know about her and it turns out she's not an archduke in the way all the others archdukes are. She's an elected, not a nobility. Born a normal person, chosen by the people of her city. When the good queen took over from the evil queen, she turned Jilia into an archduke. But on the inside, she still cares about normal people not getting crushed, like a radical. Though sometimes she has to hide it, so the other archdukes don't all turn on her."

"Huh. I guess that makes sense. Before the convention I'd've thought anyone who got turned into a noble would just take advantage of that to hurt people but I don't think that's true anymore. ...I'm still confused about why she was saying Pezzack should've just stayed Asmodean last week, though. I don't think she'd need to say that just to fool the other archdukes?"

“I didn’t track most of that conversation that well, don’t remember exactly what she said. But I think the reason why was warning people about the cost of starting a fight. Like I was trying to say before. Not sure. We should just ask her what she was trying to do. After rights is done, or before if we can show up early.”

Nod. Maybe when ordinary people get turned into nobles they end up forgetting just how bad it is to be ruled by Evil Asmodean nobles who can do whatever they want to you?

"I should be able to show up early, half my committees got shut down."

“I only have two, I should be able to, too.” 

Enric is a bit worried about how it might go if he isn’t there. Though Jilia already helped Victoria with the pamphlet situation, so hopefully things aren’t that bad between them. 

“For now, think we have time to find Lluisa before the floor starts again?”

"I think so, yeah. Do you have any idea where she is?"

“No idea. My plan is to just look for the hat.”

She giggles. "Fair enough."

And they can set off to look for Lluïsa!

Lluïsa is taking a brief walk to stretch her legs in the vicinity of the hall and if you think you noticed her muttering into her cloak you must be mistaken, that would be an utterly deranged thing to do.

That’s the hat he’s looking for. Enric rushes to greet her. “Lluisa!”

There’s been a mix of regrets and nervousness around  everything that happened, but right now he’s just happy they’re both alive and can talk.

"Delegate Porras."

Lluïsa shivers with something for a moment, then occupies herself pulling out a gold piece.

"As you have brought yourself to me the Gold is rightly yours, I suppose. Were you then Raised?"

Enric knows what to do if a lawyer offers a coin. Enric knows what to do if a friend gives a gift. No idea what to do if a lawyer— of heaven— who is also a friend offers a gold piece unprompted. He just looks at it for a moment, concerned. 

“Wasn’t raised, wasn’t dead just hiding outside the city. Didn’t mean to worry you, and also I thought you were dead. What’s the coin for?”

"...that is good. I was likewise Not Killed, being at least Mildly Inconvenient to Slay."

"Having offered Gold for your Whereabouts and having Learned them from you just now, the Right to the Reward of Gold is yours. However I did not specify an Amount and in truth intended to be Quite Miserly for the sake of my Finances. So it is therefore a Single Gold Piece." Hand forward.

(Victòria is hovering next to Enric but not saying anything yet. She waves to Lluïsa.)

(A smile for Victòria. It's good that her law student and peasantry consultant are getting along.)

Enric smiles, with the same you’re alive, I’m alive, expression. Then pauses, confused. 

“The reason I stayed hiding— heard the law put a bounty on me, money for whoever turned me in. You were the one offering?”

"I suppose I am the Law in a Certain Sense but not that Particular Sense. I Scribed a General Notice offering the Vaguest Reward, and was thereafter Consumed with Urgent Work."

“Urgent work, of course. I heard all about it, saving Valia at the trial. People finally believe me now, when I tell them about how you turned from a hell lawyer into a heaven lawyer.”

Uncomfortable shifting. "I am not Particularly a 'Heaven Lawyer'. Though I have no Serious Complaints about that Blessed Plane or the Quality of its Denizens, who are Clever and Diligent in my Experience. If there is any Budding Association between the Lawyerly Profession and Heaven it is Good to Hear."

"...You had an archon helping you defend a priestess of Iomedae." 

"...that is Undoubtedly True but I fear it may Greatly Oversell any Perceived Affiliation with such Planes and Powers to say so without Caveats."

Ah, he understands. She’s of heaven but needs to say it in a more complicated lawyer way. 

“Is there a better word for— everyone knows lawyers are sort of the same thing as devils and work for hell, but you’re the same kind of thing except switched sides to working for heaven. If you know what I should call what you are now, I’ll use that.”