"Okay." He paces.

Cam writes down his mail label for the new Bell in case she wants to write them later.

Pelape tries to play a pocket everything game to kill time. It doesn't work.

And eventually - "everything's squared away."

"Did the gate, uh, pay for your grandma?"

"Yes, close enough that the rest of the entanglement'll fade quickly-seeming-to-you if you're slowed down when I die."

"You in the crown, in what denomination will your clerical friend prefer his compensation?"

"Gold."

"Say when," Cam tells Lohte, and he starts stacking up gold bars.

And eventually - 

"That's enough."

Cam makes a wagon, starting underneath and lifting them off the floor in the process. "Does anybody want to give him the gold for me, I hate killing people."

"Not positive I can kill him in one shot and have to worry at all about my technical evil."

"Same, though I can almost definitely kill him in one shot if he's not harder to kill than a human without combat experience."

"I could...probably kill someone if I really needed to do that?"

"This is pathetic. Give me a gun, I'll do it."

"Even a human will not consistently die from a point blank shot to the head, what kind of gun do you have in mind?"

"A standard-issue Radchaii service weapon will definitely consistently kill a human."

Lohte looks less than thrilled at this conversation.

"...sorry. We could try to think of something else if you want?"

Headshake. "I don't really care if you hurt me. I do care if you bring me back."

"You sure your buddy's prepped for it?" Belmarniss asks Khemet.

"No, I'm not. Most clerics of our level prepare Miracle because it's very versatile but it's possible he didn't, or already used it. It's also possible that if he's just recently dead, Raise Dead will work, we know that Miracle works and that Resurrection didn't work without the original body but that doesn't mean it takes Miracle. But it might be he's not prepared and it takes until tomorrow."

"Do you need more squaring-away in light of that?" Promise asks Lohte.

"None of the squaring away was done on the assumption I'll be back."

"Does anyone think I shouldn't let her have a standard issue service weapon?"