"I don't think you can be, you're not Osirian. - Hagan can."

"Only if they catch me."

"So he can hide in your purse. Though I hear you lose more party members that way."

"I don't - super want to have this fight when it may not even be necessary - but if a Chelish conquest of Andoran is at stake I would actually expect you to get it together and smile at the politicians," he says to Hagan. 

"Expect like predict, or expect like -"

"Please."

"Not - entirely lying - about the regional governor who'd kill me if he saw me."

"Wow. Uh, can you get perhaps three inches closer to the truth, maybe I'll have a clever idea -"

"I will be recognized if we go hobnob in Sothis and this will not advance any of your goals. Probably."

"Okay, does it have to be Sothis one reports in to, there's temples all over the place. Shall we emplace you in a foreign country and collect you if there is appropriately overseas work to be done. Should I slip your mom five gold and make up something about, uh, diplomatic immunity, at anybody viewing you crosseyed. Should we buy a Hat of Disguise - or do you still have that one we found? Is there a palatable misdemeanor with a sentence of six months in a monastery - no, they probably suspend those sentences for people they wanna conscript, don't they, pity if you've always longed to commit vandalism -"

"Somewhere other than Sothis is fine. Foreign country is fine. I - don't think it would help at all to tell them I technically belong to some drow now and it might be hazardous to your health. I assume security around fancy people frowns on disguises. Interaction with the legal system bad."

"Okay. Steering around Sothis likely to be an issue?" Belmarniss wonders in Fazil's direction.

" - conceivably? I am not sure how many people coordinating a war effort there are going to be anywhere else." He is frowning at Hagan, who is scowling back at him.

"Ugh. Uh, can I as a nonconscriptable foreigner volunteer in your place, do you have any prospect of atoning for whatever has these people mad at you, can you renounce your citizenship... I'm running a bit low on clever ideas."

"I think I should just - stay abroad. If there's a war in Andoran I am sure I can be useful in Andoran and you guys can handle coordination with Osirion."

"And if there's a war at home -"

"There's not going to be a war at home, what would Taldor want with us?"

"Steal all your sand? Man, how long has this been a problem for you -"

"A while. It really doesn't - no one's ever felt like getting into politics before."

"Yeesh. Sorry."

Uncomfortable shrug. 

"Is this something where if I knew about it I wouldn't want to be covering for you."

"- you might not. Belmarniss wouldn't mind. I think Mahdi wouldn't mind."

"If I get any more clues I'm probably gonna start guessing without really meaning to."