"Sleep is a wizard spell. ...also operating with deliberate subterfuge as opposed to basic discretion might be against my religion."

"Might be?"

"I'm not very well catechized."

"...But you have a goddess, so, you got - picked by her and didn't have time to get all the background knowledge? That sucks. -Is unfortunate. Hm. About subterfuge compared to discretion. How would you rate 'don't ask any questions, we can't tell you how it works, but we'll put you under anesthesia and when you come back out you'll be healed'?"

"I would not be surprised if there were an orthodox way to do such a thing but I don't know how."

"Religion isn't popular around here, with the lack of gods that... Are provable."

"No clerics at all of anyone? No wizards? No sorcerers, druids, witches...?"

"No magic that's publicly known! If there were, you wouldn't be in such danger! You hear stories, rumors, of things- People who are better than human at shooting firearms, or at driving cars or fighting, who can read thoughts, climb up a sheer wall with no equipment for it- But always rumors. Never anything - public, proven, in the modern history of Earth."

"...well, I don't know why that might be, there are several possibilities, but apparently Iomedae can reach me here and is willing to do so and so long as She'll have me I'm not going to go around doing anything I'm not confident She'd approve of, which will tend to rule out most things that involve pretending that I or She is other than we are."

"Yeah, I guess so, it's your life and all... Have any questions for me?"

"What would be a good way to go about learning the local language?"

"There's a school that does ESL classes- Over on Covedale. English as a second language. They charge tuition though. You might be better off with a cheap - computer program - or textbook for it."

"Will I be able to use a computer program? Will a textbook be able to instruct me in how to pronounce anything?"

"The books are probably written with a specific starting language in mind, but the programs are all- Showing you words and sounding them out, repetition exercises and example conversations. Say a hundred dollars for an older phone and thirty bucks for a copy of Igloo in English. Both things to shop around for in Gamble Street."

"I'll be able to read the books with magic, the trouble is I won't be able to connect what I read to sounds."

"You'd still need a phone to get it to read books aloud to you."

"To... read books aloud... okay. I think I can make progress with a device that can read books aloud and some introductory books. Will the Lesser Restoration tomorrow cover that?"

"I'd maybe want a little more. I'll be spending over two hundred bucks by then, and that's- Most of my savings. Also, I have work tomorrow. Uh... How's the food thing work?"

"I can do one of those a day if I'm not preparing something else in that slot, like a Remove Blindness would take the same slot, and do have another one for today. The food doesn't last if not eaten within twenty-four hours so I hope no one was trying to hoard it but they looked hungry. I can choose what the food is but it always comes out undersalted; I have some rock salt for this reason."

"Give me most of the food and I'll pass it out to folks and family, earn a couple favors, and I'll consider that and trying to help with my back fair pay for everything."

"Of course. Today and tomorrow both, or more days beyond that? What kind of food do you want?"

"Just today. Things that are conveniently divisible, like fruit or little pies?"

"Sure. Do you have dishes or a clean table or something?"

"Back at my place yeah. Do you want to take care of that before we go down to Gamble Street?"

"You know best what will work for your schedule with giving it to people to be eaten in the twenty-four hours following the spell."