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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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"Well, if you want Naziha to be stubborn at him about this she's very very good at it."

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Sigh.

"Who's Naziha?"

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"She's in charge of managing all the girls. Uh, not you, wives are separate technically, but half of them started out like us so she looks out for you all too. Or just you, now, I guess. But in this case she's really protecting me, right, I'm not supposed to go near your husband because it's assumed that you wouldn't want to worry about any of your staff catching his attention so I can't tell him anything on your behalf, Naziha has to do that."

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"Oh.

"I see."

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She watches her concernedly and doesn't say anything.

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Vague wave. "M' usually a slightly better conversationalist, I'm sorry. I'm just - processing stuff.

"I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from - my husband - when he's normal, but right now I have basically no idea, so - yeah."

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"What, ah, happened?"

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"He wasn't Lawful. As I understand it - Abadar dropped a cursed helm on him so that he could legally be a Pharaoh, since there aren't any other candidates right now, and - this reversed his alignment. Made him Lawful. But, uh, also Evil, I think. So that's not great."

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"Oh. 

Well, some Evil people are - okay, I think, to their wives. I guess that's not very comforting."

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"Not very, no.

"He's not - he's not the way he's supposed to be. Not - he called one of his best friends a useless idiot, a few hours ago. And I can't tell how much of that is the helmet and how much of it is, like - I'd be having a bad day if I found out that my entire family was dead, too, you know - "

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She nods. "They're not even in Axis, they're all just - gone."

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"Yeah.

 

"I was Asmodean, before I met him. He's the one who - he made me believe that I could ever aspire to something besides Hell."

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"Well, you shouldn't be lawful evil just because he is, you've got to look out for yourself."

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"Well, apparently I am to follow all of his orders, now, so we'll see how that one goes."

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"Were you...not, before? You're his wife."

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"We didn't marry in Osirion. We got married on another plane, one with very different customs. I promised to love him, to offer him all that was mine, to nourish and provide for him, to defend all that was dear to him, and to accept him as my sole husband until one of us died. He promised the same things to me. I've never promised to obey him."

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"Huh. Those are nice vows. He promised not to take another wife?"

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"Yeah. It was a - it was important to me, you know, Chelish people don't do polygamy, and - he had a cleric friend who was pretty against men taking second wives, and it was the set of vows in use where we going to live, so - I guess he figured it was a reasonable offer to make. Very little idea whether it holds, now that - everything."

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Yeah, sure.

 

"I am sure everyone else is also having a terrible day, so it feels very self-centered to be - like this, but - "

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" - this is a really good day for us, actually. So you shouldn't feel like you're burdening people."

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"'Cause you have a Pharaoh again?"

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"Yeah. People were saying Cheliax was going to invade, Qadira was going to invade, Taldor was going to invade -"

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Nod.

"Well. He's having a really bad day, anyway."

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"I'm sorry. If you want the fancy bath just let me know and I'll tell people."

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