"- like you're a princess in a palace. In a dress."

"I'm pretty sure I'm not a princess."

"Well, you're having dinner with the pharaoh so you should dress up for it."

"Didn't dress up to eat dinner with him yesterday," she mutters.

"Well, he wasn't the pharaoh yesterday, was he?"

"Well apparently everyone was dead yesterday, so maybe he was, I dunno. 

"I guess maybe I could pretend he's Abadar and dress up how you'd dress to meet Abadar."

"That works since I think he is Abadar, theologically speaking."

Well, maybe that's some of what's wrong with him, then.

She doesn't say this. She sighs and heads back to her room to investigate her options.

Lots of pretty colorful dresses.

Mrrrgh.

Anything not too itchy and not too ridiculous-looking and that you could fight or run in if you had to?

There are a lot of options so probably she can eventually find something satisfactory on most of those fronts.

Well, she doesn't like it, but she's gotta make sure she stays a person who's allowed to run around the palace and hear things and go where she needs to go, which is ideally everywhere, and if she can't wear formal clothes right then there are gonna be more places she can't go.

She gets dressed in something shimmery and white, because she's an angel. Half an angel, anyway. She doesn't know how to do her hair up all fancy, so she keeps it in its braids. And then she heads out to figure out where dinner is.

Dinner is in one of the pharaoh's rooms, at a table that's too big for just him and Korva and Verita. He nods at Verita when she comes in. "The food's good," he says gloomily.

He actually makes an attempt at a smile when Korva comes in. "Are the rooms acceptable?"

She doesn't smile back. "They're fine. No windows. But they're fine."

"Some people get magic mirrors that look out on something outside the Dome. Sothis, or the ocean, or a forest somewhere far away..."

"It's not important."

He nods. He eats.

She eats, too.

"Sooooo, what're we doing tomorrow?"

"Have you explored all you wanna explore? There's probably - magic tutors, you could get magic tutoring."

"I guess so.

"What're you gonna do?"

"I don't know. I guess figure out who was making trouble while there wasn't a pharaoh."

"Makes sense."

"I have an anti-scrying item. You can leave the Dome, if you take it with you so you can't be found. - I guess we can just hunt down the cult, now, too. I'll look into that."

"Oooh. That'd be good."