"Well I'm not a full angel. Only some."

"I figured. If you don't wanna fly you don't have to."

"No, I wanna fly."

"Cool. Soon as we're out of here."

"D'you think anybody noticed you?"

"Not sure. We've got some backup plans if we need them, though."

Nod. "Why'd anybody wanna wake up Rovagug? Everyone hates him."

"Well, see, reportedly he'll destroy all the worlds."

"...right, so, waking him up is stupid."

"Unless you hate the world and think it'd be better if it didn't exist, which some people do."

"That's stupid."

"I think so too. Might be best to pretend you think it's a noble cause if they happen to get a hold of you, though. Mostly they say things like that so much of human life is suffering that it can't be worth it at all."

"'S a whole lot better than not life. I guess if the next people to kidnap me have tooth masks I can pretend it's less stupid than it sounds, though."

"I don't think we're gonna lose you. Just - better to have a backup plan.

Why did you live in Cheliax?"

"Why's anybody live anywhere? S'where I'm from."

"I just woulda, like, expected them to be racist against aasimar or something. Since they worship Asmodeus - they do worship Asmodeus, right, I'm not working off a horribly racist outdated stereotype here?"

"We worship Asmodeus. But I don't even know how anybody knows I'm an aasimar! It's supposed to be a secret! I look almost human, it's just the no shadow - and when I cry it looks like mercury, but I don't cry, so I don't see how anybody could know from that - "

"It's not anything you did, with the people coming after you now. They're tracking the blood of your father."

Sigh.

"What's gonna happen now?"

"We're going to get out of Cheliax, first thing. And then we're going to figure out some sort of solution for you to be safe. For now that will probably mean you have to stay with us, and we might be tracking down some half-brothers and half-sisters of yours if there are any more. And hopefully in the long run we'll figure out who's funding and supporting the evil cult and we'll get them arrested and it'll be safe for you to go anywhere that you want to go, with a cool story to tell your friends."

"All my friends are in Cheliax."

"Well if you want to go back to Cheliax once no one is trying to kidnap you I won't have any right to stop you."

"But they'll notice we're gone. People'll ask questions. It won't be safe anymore." She looks at Korva. "Right?"

Nod.

"I'm sorry. - good news, literally everywhere else in the world is better than Cheliax."