"Really just a living. But at least it's that."

"What do you tend to spend your money on, given all the time you spend at work?"

"Most of it's rent, food, laundry, that sort of thing. If I've got extra... Wine that doesn't taste like someone's old clothes. Admission to see the stilt-walkers or the animal fights. Savings for if I've got to pay the Archhealer. Lots of things, really."

"Have you got much to make up for? I mean, I'm sure lots of people make Axis just off working their job and not stealing and killing. If this is how you like your life and it's how you've always liked it, maybe you're fine already."

Is the Songbird going to make her list off every Evil thing she's ever done? How about she tries not doing that and seeing if she makes her. 

"Lots of people in most countries, maybe. I don't think I was too unusual for someone in Cheliax before the war, but..."

"One thing I'm learning doing this job is that people have alllll different ideas about what's normal. Are we talking about - you went to church, you held the whip some of the time in school, you said mean things because everyone expected that - or are we talking about a dead baby or two - or something in between."

"More like the second thing." And more than two, at least if it's true they still count before they're born, but she's not going to say that. And she reported anyone she thought might've broken the law whether they were breaking it with theft or with primary worship, but everyone did that, maybe it's more like going to church.

"So you know that sending a baby to the Boneyard is Evil, but do you know why, yet?"

"...Well, it's Evil to kill people. Unless you're a paladin or an executioner — for the new queen, not the old one — or something like that."

"That's close enough for most purposes, but - do you know what happens to babies when they die?"

"The same thing as anyone else? Except that most babies go to the Boneyard and most adults don't."

"So, if you just killed me right here where I'm sitting - and if I weren't a convention delegate - I'd go to Nirvana. That'd actually be fine for me, I'm looking forward to seeing the place one day! But it'd be bad for anyone I would have helped, and bad for everyone who's scared when they hear there's been a murder, and bad for my assistant who's relying on my stipend and my company to get back home safe after the convention, and bad for you since you'd get in trouble, and so on and so forth.

"With a baby, it's not like that. A baby goes to the Boneyard. And maybe that's fine for everyone else. Maybe nobody wanted a baby around right then. Maybe the baby would've grown up to be awful and all things considered it's better if they're not here on Golarion making trouble, though you can't hardly predict that, they could've grown up to be a great hero too. But for the baby themselves, we know exactly what happens: they go to the Boneyard, and they never grow up, and the first outsider who can convince them of an alignment gets to control where they go next - if they even get an outsider's attention instead of just being neglected till they're too damaged to listen to an angel if one did speak to them."

"I already know we're not supposed to kill babies anymore, you don't have to convince me."

"Understanding why matters. I'm not saying this because I think you're going to kill another baby, I'm saying it so you'll understand why."

"Okay."

"You're here now and you have the chance to do some Good in the world and go to Axis like you're hoping one day. Axis is a wonderful place. I hope you make it and I hope you are happy every day of your eternity there.

"What do you think makes it so nice?"

"Well, the alternative's Hell, and in Hell you get tortured all the time."

"That's certainly true. If you could just live forever, and never see Axis but also never go to Hell, would that be just as good?"

"Depends on how the living forever worked. If I didn't have to get old it would probably be fine."

"Huh. Is there's someplace you'd rather go and Axis just sounds like the most doable non-Hell option?"

"I don't really know. Not Nirvana, I don't want to be an animal."

"Do you have fun, when you go watch animal fights or stilt-walkers?"

"I think so? If I didn't want to watch it I wouldn't spend money on it."

"Don't you think Axis might have things that are even better?"

"I guess it might. I don't really know how I'd tell."