"Will they even let you keep money, in here?"

"Nah. But you could let me out, or...give us a real big rainstorm, it's too damn hot on land, or make a big donation for me."

"I'll think about it. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow." She gets up.

She watches her go.

Belmarniss goes out to meet the others. "She doesn't like it in there," she reports.

"Well, maybe she'll thank them someday."

"Could let people for whom lawful is a lost cause go for good."

"You could probably make that happen if you were willing to pay for it."

"I wish."

"It sounded like she'd maybe pay for it if she had her treasure but wasn't about to give me directions. I did get some answers." She offers Hagan her notes.

"Huh." He glances at it, passes it to Fazil. "- thank you."

"No problem. I think controlling the weather's beyond our pay grade, unfortunately. What's this tell you on top of what you already had, anything much?"

"We didn't actually have confirmation of which parties were involved in the whole mess, though I'd started to suspect the answer would be 'pretty much everyone' just because there's so much happening. Were gonna contact this guy, guess we won't if he's dead."

"Suppose there's a way to - if our own government is involved, then surely they have the information they'd need to tell Taldor we didn't do anything and to leave us alone -"

"I don't know who I'd ask. This is clearly secret."

"No one's going to give a fuck. We handle it ourselves."

"I assume springing her's a no-go."

"I'm assuming we probably don't want to marry her?"

"She's not uncharming company but I might have odd tastes and she didn't seem in the market."

"Then it's a no go. I doubt she really cares that much about one rainstorm, feels more likely she's angling for information about what kind of options you have on tap."

"That's a sixth level spell?"

"Seventh. Can't cast it and can't afford it."

"Do they ever get, like, the option for supervised trips out, to visit family or make, uh, pilgrimages or anything..."

"Saint Hadassah's for escape risks, I think. Other ones do more of that."

"I dunno that we need more from her. We've got a couple people who are still alive, we can drag them to Taldor. We're not going to unravel an entire complicated multinational thing, we just need some people clearly more at fault than we are."