Do you want an introduction to Abadar and to Osirian theology? It's free.

I guess that would be prudent.

Great! There's a morning class, an evening one and a weekend one, and we can make another time slot work if none of those do, though if we make one for you you have to commit to attending.

Is this every day, would I just come back after dinner tonight?

The morning and evening classes are every day, yes.

What time?

Third bells and fourteenth bells.

Okay, thanks.

For sure! Intended form of business?

In the Imperium subtle artists are often trained as therapists, I thought I'd try doing that here.

Okay. Does this involve the sale of weapons, magic items, magic texts, religious texts...

None of those.

Can you summarize any risks you perceive from your business?

It's possible to make errors in implementing telepathy-based therapeutic techniques, some of which I can fix and some of which I wouldn't be able to. A wide variety of mental side effects are possible. I'd inform patients of those risks before going ahead with any procedure.

Do you understand that if you have reason to believe someone is accessing your services in order to commit or evade detection for a crime, you are required by law to make a police report within two hours for a serious crime and twenty-four hours for a minor crime?

Uh, I've taken an oath of confidentiality. I'm not actually sure it conflicts with that because I'm not sure how accessing my services would help someone commit or evade detection for a crime, but it could result in me knowing about crimes I'd be forbidden to report. - And I guess someone might try to access my services as an accomplice after the fact if they wanted to be made to forget they'd committed a crime or something, in which case I wouldn't have to provide the service but the confidentiality oath would still apply.

Huh, okay. 

I - should probably get that cleared with someone with the authority to clear it. Priests of some religions are permitted to hear and not report confessions of crimes so there's probably a form for it but I don't know offhand.

Okay. How long will that take?

If you come back this evening I should have it then. We can fill out the rest of the form and then it shouldn't delay your processing any.

Okay. Thirteenth bells?

That's right.

Thank you.

And she goes back toward the inn, a little circuitously, to have lunch.

Deviled eggs and eccentric fruits and a spicy curry fish thing! Someone is shapechanging on a different table, to general applause.

She claps. She eats deviled eggs and eccentric fruits and curried fish. She goes to her room and has a crying jag and pays for another night at the inn but then goes for more of a walk looking for longer-term accommodations.

The Old City surrounds the enormous black dome, and is encompassed by the old city wall which is now pierced through in many places by streets connecting it to the rest of the city. There are plazas and fountains and large temples like the one where she's signed up for classes, and the apartments in narrow alleys behind all of this tend expensive. Across the canal is what's called the canal district, where she landed, and it's cheaper, with the streets narrower and more crowded. Northwest of the canal district there are mostly artisans.