Eriape is very trussed up, in her cell, but her face is visible above the chains. 

"Hello Song Bird! Did you get my Autobiography? I published it for You!"

"I grabbed a copy as soon as it was available, I think I have a complete set of your publications to date! You must have been in a terrible hurry to get it through Osirion's board that quickly."

"It was a Wicked Law you Made! Everybody was having a Great Time writing Pamplets, so I had to Do Something!"

"I gave a speech against it on the floor!" And then she voted for it because someone clarified that there were backroom dealings but it is still true that she made a speech against it on the floor. "I'll miss the pamphlets a lot, I don't think freedom of the pen was to blame for all the things they were trying to react to at all. And today some people were bragging about having found you and caught you so I knew I had to come see you as soon as I could."

"Thank you for Attempting to Achieve a Sane Outcome! Probably wise to Meet me Sooner rather than Later! I think they are going to try to Kill Me! Rude if you Ask Me!"

"It's so rude! I doubt you've done a single thing wrong since the amnesty and there's people who once did all kinds of things still around, even if most of them are alive."

"Yes! My Human Urchins have been Very Helpful to me in my Attempts to Bring Sanity to Cheliax, and they told me the most Hair-Raising Stories! I believe you have an Urchin Too!"

"He's an actor, but I suppose there's a bit of urchinry to him if you look at it just so. Do you think it would be appropriate to have child actors playing badgers? The costumes would be pretty bulky, you see, so it'd add up to about the right size."

"Yes! But there will be Badger Actors soon Enough, so you should Mention in the Stage Directions that they should Use Proper Badgers if Available!"

"Will there! I'll put a note, but I'm not sure it will be within a typical theater's budget. Now, in your song, if I've got the lyrics down right, it's got a line where it says you dance beneath the moonlight blue. I understand it'd be hard to show me right now but it's a very danceable tune, can you give me any notes on how it should be choreographed?"

"The Badgers used to Jump Up and Down when Singing that One, but they have Four Legs! I think due to the Different Body Plan, Human Actors might Tumble or Something! By the Way, there were Some things that the Osirian Censors made me Leave Out from my Youth! I should Tell you Now!"

"Please do!" She's brought paper!

"My Mother was the Daughter of a City Count, sent Away into the Country for the Usual Reason. She was a Slut! We were Twins. Mother doted on her but Not on Me! So I doted on Myself. While Velarise practiced her Lightning I Read A Lot. At age Fifteen, I heard Whispers of a Necromancer. In an Ancient Tomb I found Master Jordi Raventós, an Old Man and Necromancer who had Retreated from the World as I later did! 'Fools!' He would Exclaim between Coughs "I'll Show them All!" His Hands shook too badly to perform Much Magic, but his mind Remained Sharp. He was a Great Man.

He would Spend Hours detailing his theories about Necromancy between his tirades and only Touched me in Unseemly Ways a Few Times, which is the Price of Doing Business. Master Raventós had Spent his Entire Life working toward Lichdom. When He Died, He was Not Ready. So it Goes. He died During my Fifth year of Study, and I did not Kill Him. He was Just Old!

Velarise became an Adventurer Too! She had no Children, and Would then Later Fall in the War against Hell! Our Family Lived on (More of Less) in Me and Now in my Badgers!"

She thinks for a moment.

"I think those are the Important Parts!"

"All right, I think that probably covers - two acts, maybe, your earliest youth in the first and your wizarding apprenticeship with a little bit of Velarise as a foil in the second act. And in the third we're going to want the becoming a lich and acquiring the badgers part, I think, with the full theme song - though I think motifs from it should appear throughout - and then an intermission, to represent how long your unlife has been, and in the fourth act we open on Westcrown, with the pamphleteering. I've already started twiddling a few of the pamphlets into rhyme, though I haven't got tunes, I've done very little composing.

"I've been thinking, about the fifth act."

"What are your Thoughts? You are the Expert!"

"So the thing is this really wants to be a lively fun show, right? And you're the protagonist! A lively fun protagonist can't die at the end."

"I Think So Too! If you are to Break me Out, I think you will need to Defeat the Queen!"

"Well, I'm pretty sure I can't defeat the queen. But," DRAMATIC PAUSE, "there's a party member of hers... who's very good at resurrections."

"Perhaps you are Right, you are an Artist and a Lady, much like Myself! Didn't she change Someone into a Flail Snail? I am not Sure she can be Trusted. Oh! I could offer to fix her Reincarnation Spell so that it Only Makes Badgers!"

"That would be a lovely ending, though I'm not sure you're currently able to do much research, even for something so deeply within your specialty! I was imagining a conventional non-reincarnation resurrection, though."

"I Suppose."

She thinks for a while. 

"I am not Sure I approve of the Person I was Before! She did not Like Singing or Badgers or anything except Necromancy. Now, Necromancy is interesting, don't get me Wrong, but it is Much More Fun to spend your time with your Badger Friends. We should ask her how it Works- I Have never met any long-time resurrected Undead! I wouldn't want to Stop liking Badgers!"

"I can write down any questions you have for the Arch-healer and bring them to her tapping hours at the temple of Abadar! The first one being that you're concerned that you will go back to being interested mostly in necromancy and less in singing with your badger friends, which I agree sounds much more fun."

"Yes! That sounds good!"

"What else would you want to know or request from her?"

"You should make My offer to Help on the Spell!"