"Huh."

"Is it - all right if I go sleep?"

"Yeah. This house over here. I'll show you." And she guides her towards Fazil and Mahdi's house.

She follows. And then she climbs in a bed and tries to sleep.

She heads back to everybody else. 

"Do you need anything, then?"

"Language lessons, if there are any on offer!"

" - ah. Uh, it might be hard with translation on but - I guess we can teach you our writing systems and stuff?"

"Yes, that'd do!"

She looks at Hagan. "Do you want to go first, or - oh, I forgot, you can't - I guess I can teach you the alphabet, sure."

And she can get a notebook and try teaching him the alphabet.

"Well, that'll keep them for a while," he says to Korva.

"Very striking, how all of the versions of your dad are - like that."

"I guess he's all right."

"I guess I should probably talk to him at all at some point. - yours, I mean."

" - guess so, yeah."

"I guess I'm kind of unclear on - I think normally when people are considering getting married they meet each other's families. But your family's... royalty... and my parents are, uh, stuck in Cheliax, and possibly evil? So there's that."

"I am kind of worried that you'll hate my family. I don't think they'll refuse me permission to marry you, and by Osirion's rules we don't need the approval of yours? But I'd still rather meet them and get their permission if we can."

" - I am kind of not of the opinion that my parents have the right to veto my relationships. But it'd be kind of rude to go off and marry you without them ever having learned that you existed."

"My family does have the right to veto my relationships. But we can make visiting yours more about - getting acquainted, if that's what you want."

Nod. "Why will I hate your family? Or - possibly hate your family."

"They're - Osirian royalty. They're just not going to be very open-minded about whether one should let his wife work outside the home, or promise to only have one of them, or - whatever."

"...I guess that makes sense." 

"And I don't - know of anyone in the palace who's as unhappy as Cecelia but if it turned out someone was it wouldn't be - surprising because that isn't the kind of thing that can happen, just surprising because the pharaoh mostly doesn't like being around people who hate him."

- nod.

"Yeah. I guess - even if I didn't hate them it might still be hard to be around them ever.

" - female clerics can work outside the home, can't they, or does Osirion just not have those - "

"Magic-users are different. - so I guess you're fine, now."

"I am almost annoyed about this. But probably it's better for things to be easier even if it gives me less chance to spite people."