"Okay."

"Elizabeth's planning on taking over at least one of the evil afterlives. I dunno how much she told you about stuff. Of course it's anyone's guess whether she's actually capable of succeeding."

"The Valar'll probably do it if she doesn't. And if neither of them can we'll think of something - maybe leave the world paused and evacuate everybody from it? But I don't actually know, I'm not exactly the person you'd want on this."

"Huh."

"What?"

"You kind of suck, and you're lawful, and these are related, and I don't quite know what to make of it."

"You think you don't kind of suck?"

"Not in the same way. Like, I'm sure I have lots of other character flaws, but my society isn't superficially nice enough I can just go 'whatever, they'll handle it' about things, so I have to actually do things about the things, and this was good for me, I think."

"I think there's gonna be an experiment on whether more demanding childhood environments make people better. Or maybe there was gonna but it got cancelled because of consent issues, I dunno."

"To be fair, none of us were doing much about most of these problems until Elizabeth pointed herself at them and decided we were going to fix them. ...which I suppose is admirable, whatever her other shortcomings."

"We were doing as much as we possibly could."

"I guess I shouldn't make assumptions about how much that was. I wasn't doing much, because I assumed there was nothing I could do. I don't think this is particularly uncommon."

"I guess. You did a lot as soon as you got the chance, though."

"Well, there wasn't anybody else around. Starfarer's not in that situation, I dunno what he'd do if he were."

"I think he'd do okay and I think it'd be ...good for him? To be in a situation where he needed to solve things himself. Because like - everyone I know is more competent than me, right, so my only edge is that they mostly suck and won't, like, try to fix the world because they don't mind how it is. And if everyone else was both more competent than me and just as nice as me, then I actually do not think this would be very good for my development as a person. Thus -" he gestures at Starfarer.

"Is this a normal conversation where you're from because it's a super weird conversation where I'm from."

"Nah, not at all, I'm being very rude."

"Okay. I think I see what you're getting at but I still do not think I should marry Eru's new friend. If other opportunities to be useful present themselves I'll try to give them a fair shot."

"I don't think you should marry her either. No good marrying people if you think it'll be bad for you."

"Yeah. It's not that - I'm sure she's a lovely person."

"We'll find out when she wakes up, I guess."

Squeeze.

Hug.

"I don't actually think that any of me have been awful so far. I just don't want to assume that none of us are."

"That makes sense."

She watches Valentine and Starfarer's dad. At some point Verita stops showing off her cantrips to her mother and heads over to excitedly participate in language investigation.

"Well. You guys have anything you wanna do while the new one sleeps? I guess I am theoretically supposed to be coming up with more things Cheliax might need in the aftermath of Asmodeus's death."