He leaves.

Then they can leave. 

"That teleport," Fazil says to an attendant, "where do we go for that -"

"This way."

Then she can follow.

" - I figure we'll just - go back to where we set up camp -" Fazil says. "Our stuff's there."

Nod. 

"Do we know where the animals are - "

"Oh. Right, of course - where are our companions -"

"They can meet you there."

"Do we get our armor back - "

She feels like she's asking too many questions here, and also like her voice still isn't working quite right, but also the dress makes her want to hide underground and not come out for years -

"Of course. And weapons once you're out of the palace."

Nod.

"Okay. We can go back to camp, then."

They get North back, and Mahdi's bird. Her clothes have been laundered and mended.

They get a teleport back to camp.

"Well," says Fazil.  

She kneels and hugs North and holds him, for a while, until she stops feeling sick, and the wanting to die is quiet enough that she can hear the rest of her thoughts over it. Until everything inside her is dull and gray and hazy again, and none of the things that used to feel like knife wounds feel like they matter very much.

"Sorry. About, uh, being ambiguously unresurrectable."

" - what, no, this is way better than having died, we're not down two levels and - my sister would have had to arrange a funeral - and this way is a hell of a story. And we met the pharaoh."

"I guess we did."

"On some level I expected it to be underwhelming if I ever met him but I do not think it was," says Mahdi.

"Different than any of the other kings I've met, anyway."

"A pharaoh's not a king," says Fazil. "He's Abadar's embodiment in the world."

"I see. I'll - picture Andraste or something, then."

Andraste was enslaved by the Tevinters and left the empire with an army of freed elves and would not have made her want to die, but whatever.

"Do you want to - keep exploring - or should we go back -"

"It'd really suck if we fell into a giant cavern full of demons again, I guess."

"We can head back."

"All right."

So they get on the carpet and do that.

No one talks much. Mahdi reads a book.

She hugs her dog. Her dog snuggles her and whimpers, and she thinks it says I don't know what happened to you but I'm sorry I wasn't there.

It was a good four days, anyway. And hey, no Fade access on this plane, it can't trigger any more nightmares.

They get back to Sothis around sunset. 

"I'll return the carpet," Fazil says. 

"Cool.

"Should I - do we have a plan for what happens next, or - "