" - all right. I think we should go through. We can come back once Mahdi has a teleport, if it's chancier than it looks from here."

He nods.

"Okay." 

And she says her words again and opens the gate one more time.

They head through. 

"- this means you're not gonna be able to fix my arm, are you. Nothing from Abadar there."

He nods.

The grass isn't any more suspicious looking on the other side.

She steps through.

"...s'pretty."

"Okay. We want it closed now - ?"

"Yes, please."

She closes it. 

On this side the gate is coming out of the side of a cliff. Other than that the only things around are the meadow and the road. 

" - nice to see the sun again, at least."

"What do you know, when there are no gods it turns out everything's really nice."

"Do you know how many babies would die being born if -"

"Sorry, kidding, kidding." He holds up his hand in a defensive posture and his stump to match it. "I am sold on the merits of clerics."

"Do we wanna just... hang out right by the gate? Look around any?"

"I'm inclined to look around, on the whole? If it looks safe to stay here a while that'd be best. We can test whether it's possible to scry out from this plane, and if it is we can check if the other side is clear."

"Sleep now, look around once Mahdi's playing with a full deck?"

Nod.

She flops in the grass and sighs.

"I can't really sleep under these conditions either," complains Mahdi, but he lies down to rest.

Well she can sleep. She's going to do that.

She sticks her hands in her pockets and mills around the meadow.

"Sorry about your arm."

"It probably builds character or something. Or maybe the locals have figured out arcane healing since they don't have divine.

I know someone who had his cut off, as a teenager, because he wanted to be a judge and he thought he ought to know what it was like. Waited a week to fix it. Of course, he had servants to do everything."

"Huh. I guess that's - I don't actually really know how that makes me feel."

"Me neither.

I didn't mind the pain but I do mind that we're now down to one party member who can hold their own in a fight."

Nod.

"I guess if it's dangerous we don't have to stay long."

"We don't. If it's safe it'd be a bit of a shame not to explore, though, and if we were at full strength I'd feel better about our odds of managing should it be unexpectedly dangerous."