"Hope it works out. I'm not really - used to doing things I wasn't told to do. But Eru gave me the power to - at least try to fix this, so I guess I'll have to do that."

"Yeah. You're doing great."

"M'trying."

"When Elizabeth comes back in a couple days we can find your people. And see what makes sense to tackle first."

"What's she doing now?"

"Taking a break. And I think fighting zombies in an attempt to get some combat spells. She's - very young. And working on a lot of things."

"That makes sense."

"I would kind of expect most people to ask about the zombies."

"I'm sure there are a lot of other things that I'll hear about later. Right now - I should eat something. And maybe take a break from talking myself."

"Makes sense. Take care of yourself."

Nodnod.

She heads off to go find food.

"Wonder what Fazil thought of their conversation."

"Kinda want to ask."

"I suppose there's technically nothing stopping you."

"Gonna come with me?"

"That depends on whether it's likely to get me more or less information, I think."

"I bet he'll talk about it with you there, you might have - useful perspective, and so on."

"I guess so. In that case I will."

And they can head over to Fazil.

"Hey."

"Hi. Heard you had an extensive conversation with the new Imrainai."

"She is interested in free peoples' marriage traditions, I think. Did she ask you guys?"

"She did, yeah."

"She didn't ask me a single follow-up about Chelish marriages in particular, so I figure either she found them very comprehensible or they sounded particularly terrible. Or she was more interested in what I was doing than in what my people were."

"She seemed really concerned about Osirion. I think her society doesn't have very many social problems other than the slavery? Which - seems unlikely but maybe the group she's in is very selected."

"That does sound like kind of a bizarre situation."