"Hey. Cam said you might be able to erase oaths. I want to be a test subject for that. Can you do them one at a time or would you erase all oaths I'm under? - either is fine."

"Don't know if I can do it at all but I can be selective if I can, precision's like never the limiting factor."

"Cool. Five minutes ago I swore a test oath for the purpose, a really harmless one." He repeats it. "Do you need me to do anything?"

"Nope." Nechar squints at him. "Did that do it?"

"Wealthier green brigandine. Wow, cool." He beams at him. "Can you tell if I'm under any other ones - I shouldn't be, but it's technically possible I've forgotten -"

"Sorcery's shit at information, I've got a lot of momentum but not enough to do divination like that."

"Okay, thanks - might come bother you again - Cam said you wouldn't do it for someone who's under oath to obey someone else?"

"I don't have a ton of practice at, like - judgment? When I have to maintain my momentum - literally all the time I'm not in here - I have to be doing magic, all the time, have to outsource stuff like 'deciding what magic to do' to save however long it takes to decide that sort of thing. I think I'd be kind of shit at deciding weird cases and things get complicated in here sometimes all kinds of stuff from all kinds of worlds - I gotta be kinda conservative, especially while I've got the luxury of not constantly doing stuff -"

"That makes a lot of sense. Who do you usually outsource that to? They must have to be really trustworthy and really competent -"

"I have my sister doing most of the finicky stuff, and some government type people can call me if they need something standard like healing or a teleport somewhere or anything I know is gonna be fine."

"I don't suppose she's grabbable? If you can teleport?"

"Door's always closed by the time I get back to it. I can sorcer it open again but then it might've been a billion years in here or something."

"I can't hold it open for you?"

"What? No, you can only hold open doors to your own world."

"...what happens if you try to hold open the door to someone else's -"

"Switches to yours."

"And there's no one within shouting distance of the place where you got the door?"

"Haven't got any houseguests, live in flying castle..."

"...I can think of a way to do it but it's a little dubious."

"I think it's maybe better not to mess with this kind of shit, dude."

"I get where you're coming from, I really do. But also there's someone being tortured upstairs, and that seems like the sort of problem that when you can afford to think about it you should think really hard about."

"I can't do divination, remember, anybody could walk in here and say anything, I wouldn't know."

"Right, which is why I'm not asking you to take him out from under the obedience oath, I'm asking about a way to get someone from your world qualified to evaluate competing claims and the evidence we've got and decide whether that'd be a justified thing to do."

"My sister can't do divination either. You know something, my world's like - really nice? Compared to most of 'em? Bar tells me stuff about other worlds and they're just - varying depths of shithole - mine's nice. My sister's got practice evaluating nice world kinda requests. Your thing's not her field of expertise."

"Is there anyone in your world who can do divination?"