Then Hagan and Fazil will hang out in the other one and give them some space.

She flops on the bed.

"Are we ever gonna see Kanir again?"

"I don't know."

"They seem okay. For kidnapper people."

"I'm sure worse kidnappers exist, yes."

"Are they gonna hurt us?"

"I don't know. If they're telling the truth about the Rovagug cultists, then - I don't understand the situation but it seems like the simplest way to keep you from doing anything is to kill you."

"Oh."

"Which - doesn't necessarily mean they will. They could need you for something. Even if they don't - if they really are good, good people aren't like Chelaxians, they won't do the smartest thing for the world or for their people or for themselves if it'd keep them out of the afterlife they're aiming for."

Nodnod.

"You should read the books. Probably. I think they were pretty expensive."

She can read, then.

Mahdi comes back. Fazil goes out to run his errands and get food. No one bothers them until dinnertime.

She prays. She tries reading Zara's books. She paces.

Fazil comes back with stuffed pork pies and an odd flat pasta dish and a sweetbread for dessert. 

"So. You guys must have - questions."

"What're the people you're hiding from trying to do? Like, specifically."

"On the occasion where they got their hands on a descendent of Teriesh they attempted to drag her to the Crown of the World, where they could use her to open the gate. Opening the gate does not release Rovagug or anything, but the gate is the only way to reach a plane that most interplanar magic doesn't affect and which they seem to think it's important to control. We've been calling it the Deep Plane. We don't know much about it except that it's beneath the Underdark. It might just be that if they controlled it then it'd be harder for people to interfere with subsequent steps of their plan, or it might be that they think they know a way to get to him from there. Or there might be powerful weapons or allies there, or something."

"Oh.

"So... what're you guys gonna, like, do about it?"

They glance at each other. 

"So we'd like to figure out what's on that plane. Maybe we need to be able to open the gate ourselves, because there's some stuff going on there that's important to address or thwart or assist or something. Maybe there's a reason Teriesh, who was the only person with the power to open it, went around having a bunch of kids who'd inherit his powers."

"Sounds pretty dangerous. And possibly very ill-advised."

"We're not going to open the gate ourselves without very good reason to think we should do that. But we had a couple of leads on histories of the Deep Plane, and we dropped them all when we found out about the descendants of Teriesh. One option now is to pick them back up."

"I guess that makes sense."

"- but you don't like it?"

"Oh, uh, I just don't really know everything that's going on? And that was kinda fun on the flying carpet but I guess now we just kinda. Wait."