"Dunno. I've never been around this much of it."

"Do you think Elizabeth and Cecelia like theirs because they're both fairies and have sexual ethics of 'what's that' -"

" - no. I don't."

"That's good."

"I think there's a sort of related thing that's relevant? It's very obvious to Cecelia and to Elizabeth what their boyfriends are getting out of dating them. Because they're kind of disasters who haven't figured out very basic principles of functioning in society and they have no common sense and they they trust their girlfriend's judgment more than their own and it's clear why he'd want her. You're - except when you are panicking over Imrainai - not actually a disaster of a person and I do not think it's obvious to her what you'd be relying on her for."

" - huh."

"I don't think you should be more of a disaster, though. It's pretty neat, seeing you be competent at important things."

"I'm not planning to be more of a disaster. I am trying to be less of one. Even if Imrainai wants to marry a disaster. She'll have plenty to choose from."

"That's the spirit, I guess."

"Thank you anyways."

"N-uh-uh, you're not going anywhere, you owe me at least ten minutes of telling me about the pharaoh. And the people close to him, ideally."

"- oh, right. Fine."

He tells him about the pharaoh and his husband and the wives he's never met and - Abadar? Kind of a person close to the pharaoh, sorta.

And then he asks for one last piece of advice and then he heads back over to where Korva was scribbling angrily. Is she still doing that.

She's started a new page that doesn't have any angry doodles but also doesn't have very much writing. She is sort of staring at it sadly.

"I have a dumb plan, do you want to have the first shot at talking me out of it or should I go to Fazil?"

"What is it?"

"So Cecelia's worried about us negotiating with her kids' father over custody of the kids because she is worried he will get inspired to invade us. We're going to get her niece to confirm this but it really doesn't sound like Scandinavia has a military worth worrying about. The responsible thing to do here is probably to show up in enough force that they don't get ideas and are willing to negotiate. The disadvantage to this is that then we don't get to murder the emperor at all. So instead, we could show up not in enough force they don't get ideas, and then when they invade we can murder the emperor a lot."

"Invade who? If you're worried about them breaking into the demiplane, it seems like it wouldn't take much of a military to cause this place a lot of trouble."

"Nah, nah, we get them to invade Osirion."

"How sure are you that you can direct them there and not anywhere else?"

"They don't have dimensional transit themselves - gotta confirm with the niece but Cecelia doesn't think they did and if they'd visited Golarion before people'd have heard of them. I think they'd have to use whatever gate we set up."

"Ah. Do you have people who could set up a gate?"

"Elizabeth could, with those rings of Wish. - I think. Not actually sure if Wish can mimic Gate."

"Book says it can't. Mahdi's probably a better authority on that, though."

"I can ask him but he is going to go 'don't be a dumbass Hagan you can't start a war just to kill a guy you don't like'."

"I guess Elizabeth could probably raise anyone who got killed in the process. But - I mostly think that it's introducing a lot of complications, right? If Cecelia's worried about them conquering places, giving them access to Osirion might give them advantages they don't currently have. Both for you to worry about and in comparison to everyone else where they come from."