"Okay."

She's just gonna go back to lying down. She's allowed to lie down in her room.

A cleric comes in, casts the same spell Hagan did. Recommends a tea and some lighter breakfast foods, mostly to Zakiya since Korva seems a little bit out of it. 

"- can we keep her from the pharaoh," Zakiya says quietly.

The cleric does not look particularly surprised. "I can recommend bed rest."

"I think it'd be a good idea."

She tries not to form any expectations about this. It's not good practice to expect things.

She tries to stay awake in case the cleric needs to ask her any questions or anything.

She asks how long she's been feeling this way and if she's lightheaded when she stands and when she last bled and whether she's been pregnant before and what helps her feel less sick and how she's sleeping.

Nauseous for maybe a week? Maybe she's a little lightheaded sometimes. She doesn't remember exactly when she last bled, it was in the palace but it must have been a while ago. She hasn't been pregnant before. She's not sure what helps her feel less sick. She wakes up in the night a lot and takes a lot of naps during the day.

"I think that I should recommend bed rest for the next few months, probably until the baby is due," she says, watching Korva closely. "But if you think that'd be wrong for you, a mother's intuitions are very good."

"I don't really know what I should do."

"Okay. Well, I think you should rest."

"Okay."

She can rest. - or, well, she can try, she's not sure she's very good at it.

The cleric confers with Zakiya for a bit. Leaves. 

Zakiya watches her thoughtfully for a little while. "Well. Congratulations. I know it'd have been nicer if it hadn't happened like this, but -"

...she stares at her blankly.

- worriedly. "- you're going to have a baby, Korva. Unless anything goes wrong and one would think Abadar would be looking out for us at this point."

" - yeah. I know."

"And that's really good. For your husband, for Osirion."

Nodnod.

"And I think it can be really good for you, too, if we play it right."

" - you're a wreck. Now you get six, seven months off on bed rest, you can have a little space to relax and figure out what you want. If you decide you want him to go for someone else, it's a great opportunity to angle for that, while he can't see you anyway. If you don't want that we can take the time to figure out how you do want to make things work."

"I think I'm just supposed to give him whatever he wants."

"Men never know what they want."

Nod.

"And they have absolutely no idea how much work it takes to give it to them."

Nod.

"So you gotta look out for yourself, first."

"I'm not supposed to do that."