She likes impressing people. She's gonna practice the control on her mage hand right now.

She tries reading one of Zara's books again. And she prays.

And eventually their captors leave them alone to sleep.

Fine.

And they keep this up. He finds things for them to do in the city in the day, and Fazil and Mahdi sell spells.

She is very bored and very uncomfortable here and very intent on not actually complaining.

Everyone is vaguely uncomfortable around her for religious reasons. They try not to make too much of a thing of it. 

At some point Mahdi tries to scry for Zara's father, and gets nothing. 

After a couple of weeks they have enough money to resupply.

"You should let us know what you might want while we're on the move."

"Paper and ink would be useful."

"Cool, can do."

"Thank you.

"I guess I should pick a name."

"Guess so."

"Used to tell stories about someone named Imrainai. Doesn't sound Chelish at all, but - I guess that's a good thing."

"Yeah. Imrainai. Nice to meet you, Imrainai."

"Wish I could say the same. But I guess it's not your fault."

"I mean, the rest of the world has kinda left Cheliax to burn, if I were you I'd be pissed with us about it."

"Zara likes you. And if you're telling the truth you've likely saved her life, and possibly protected the world from descent into turmoil and ultimate destruction. That's most of the things that really matter in this world."

"Solidly half of them," he agrees.

        "So," Fazil says, "there's a lost temple in Nirmathas that is rumored to depict scenes of a great battle in the Deep Plane, there's a planar scholar in Galt who responded to my letters by inviting me to come and meet with him, there used to be a university in Razmiran that put out some books related to the Deep Plane but who knows if it's still around given current events there. Anyone got a preference on what to hit first?"

"Razmiran lead sounds most likely to be useful. I guess Galt is slightly closer."

"And better governed," says Fazil. "I am not entirely sure if I'm allowed in Razmiran right now."

"We're going to have to try at some point."

       "Yes," says Mahdi, "but we could for example wait until I have Teleport."

"I wanna see all of them. But we could start in Galt if people wanted."

"I wanna look for the lost temple," Hagan says mournfully.

       "You'll like Galt," says Fazil, "they routinely murder their entire government."

Hagan perks up. "Ooh."

       "One advantage of looking for the lost temple first is that we're more likely to encounter problems we can solve with magic," says Mahdi, "which we'll need to do before I will have access to Teleport. That said, I don't think the temple will help us very much and it'll keep, while the lead in Galt might not."

"That makes sense. We're not in a hurry?"

"We don't know of -" he looks at Hagan to get a word translated - "specific reasons to hurry but can expect our enemies to be pursuing some of the same avenues."

"Oh. I was thinking if we didn't have to go in order then maybe we could do Galt and then Nirmathas and then Razmiran."