Sigh. "So no."

"Can I, as a proper customer sort of person who has money to solve my problems with and doesn't resort to poor person solutions like leaving my kid in an orphanage, buy a spell off you."

"Detect Alignment," says Fazil.

They glare at each other.

"Okay, you absolutely don't need to do this."

"Didn't think I did. Just, as a proper customer person with lots of money, wanna buy a spell."

"I'm not going to give it back to you."

"Wasn't expecting you to."

"I use all my spells, every day, mostly on healing people. If I heal some person who happened to wander in front of you instead of some person who didn't then we're just allocating healing by happened-to-wander-in-front-of-ness."

"Right, and, as a money-possessing person, I wanna use my money to solve problems that happened to wander in front of me, and I wouldn't be adequately incentivized to earn lots of money through productive labor if I couldn't spend it on random stuff that makes me happy like that."

"Could give the money to the orphanage."

Sigh.

"I'll do it - for full pay - if you actually think I should but I don't - feel like that's the level on which you consider any of this, ever."

"It doesn't - point anywhere, right? There's a clever argument you shouldn't use spare spell slots to fix kids. There's a clever argument you shouldn't help refugee families get where they're going. There's a clever argument that you shouldn't feed beggars, and a clever argument you shouldn't give charity, and - and I can't evaluate any of them, and they're so convenient I don't for a second believe they're all true. And if you're always gonna be outargued then the thing to do is to not have any arguments and just - do stuff, every time you see it. And if everyone were doing my thing we'd have fixed everything, while if everyone was doing your thing - I don't know. We find out how good the arguments really are, I guess."

"Two eighty. For restoration."

"I'll get it for you."

"Where? You've been watching Verita."

"Prostitution."

Sigh.

Well. Whatever. Not her money, is it.

So he comes by with her the next day and taps the baby and assures the staff that he was paid for this by a third party. 

"Sorry," he says to her afterwards. "I don't want to make your work harder."

"Yeah. Well. His money."

"Doesn't actually make it right."

"I don't really spend a ton of time considering which things are right."

"- you can substitute 'causes the stuff you want to happen, to happen'. If that's helpful."

"I'm not sure I spend a ton of time thinking about that, either."

"Oh. Maybe you should. Not to give unsolicited life advice, but."