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Abadar uses a helm of opposite alignment on Hagan and a bad time is had by all
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"Okay. Thank you."

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"Mmhmm."

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"...should I be trying to think of them now, or - "

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"I guess I figured you'd need some time?"

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"Yeah, but I didn't know if you wanted - Uh. Was there anything else. Did you wanna... hold the baby, or anything."

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"Yes, I would."

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"Okay."

And she can hand him the baby. And then just sort of... go back to where she was standing, now without a baby.

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Baby!

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It takes her a second to stop reflexively waiting for something horrible to happen just because her evil husband is holding the baby instead of her. Nothing remotely bad has ever happened to the baby, but it always takes her a second to stop waiting for it to.

They're cute together.

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A good baby. Hopefully he'll be a good pharaoh. 

 

 

Eventually he hands him back.

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She can accept a baby. And wait to see if he wants anything else.

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"I love you. Good night."

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Nod. "Goodnight."

She feeds her baby. She sits on the bed and thinks about things that she cares about, or remembers caring about, at least a little. Small things, things that are insignificant enough to handle even though she doesn't know what she's doing.

She looks through the oil paintings. Any landscapes?

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All of the oil paintings are of landscapes, actually.

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She stares at them for a while. Tries to weigh whether any of them give her feelings, or remind her of places that are nicer than this one.

Eventually she picks out the one that most reminds her of the deep plane.

She asks Zakiya if they can hang it up.

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"Sure. Over on this wall, do you think?"

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"Yeah. That should be okay. I think."

And now she has a painting on her wall. That's okay. She works on thinking about more things that she might have feelings about.

She asks Zakiya what month it is.

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"It's almost the end of Arodus."

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"Armasse's over, then.

"Signing day's in two weeks, but I guess nobody'd celebrate that here."

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"Signing day?"

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"It commemorates Chelish independence from Taldor. Lots of people get married then, you go around to different wedding parties and eat food and play games and dance together. And then at night there are fireworks."

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"That sounds nice. Uh, I assume scrying on the fireworks in Cheliax would not be fun at all."

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Shrug. "I guess I was trying to think of things that had ever made me happy. But I don't actually really know how to celebrate anything here."

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"We have present exchanges, and dances, sometimes, and we get musicians in."

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"I guess that is the sort of thing that might be fun if I... knew people to celebrate with. Who wanted to. But I wouldn't want to - nobody here even knows what Signing Day is. Even if I knew them."

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