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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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"This is Khatijah," adds Rabiah, waving the baby's hand at her.

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"Uh. I don't really know, I'm sorry. I - think he's very busy and I'm not sure what all of the rules around here are."

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"Do you know if he's mad at Ismat? - she was Merenre's wife and she didn't wait around to ask, she just left, after she recovered from the miscarriage -" asks Rabiah.

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"I have no idea whether he's mad at Ismat. I don't know whether he's heard about this yet."

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"Yeah we have to at least wait till we know if he's okay about Ismat," Rabiah tells Amina.

"Fine..."

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"Where are you planning to go?"

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"Not far, uh, Melissa's family's rich and her dad said she could move us all in to a spare house he has and we could start a band," says Rabiah. "Without having to go in and out of the dome every time we performed. Uh, Masaharta was really musical and so he picked us all out for that?"

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"Ah. I see."

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"Do you wanna sit over here? Or, uh, the last pharaoh's wives are mostly there -" She points. "Except I think Laila's trying to coax Shatha to come to breakfast which works about half the time."

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...she can sit by Rabiah and try grabbing some breakfast.

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"...you're probably wondering about the baby but, uh, I didn't - okay I did do something wrong but it was before I even met Masaharta."

"Whereas Nehal disappeared and packed her son's clothes so -" says Melissa.

"Yes yes it's terribly scandalous," yawns Amina, "it's old news -"

"Not to her! - what's your name?"

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"I'm Korva."

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"Well, Nehal probably cheated on her husband, is the thinking," says Melissa. "But they haven't tracked her down, everything's scattered, she might have got away like Ismat."

"Ismat didn't cheat, she miscarried just like I did," says Rabiah.

"Yeah but she left, that's all I mean, they're the ones who left."

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Nodnod. 

(They're all gonna think she's stuck-up or something. She mostly just can't think of anything to say.)

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"So where were you guys? It took months for Abadar to find you."

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"Different plane. Weird one that the gods can't see."

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"Whoaaaa."

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"Yeah."

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"Well, welcome back?" says Rabiah.

"And if you ever want to sit through a test performance," says Amina, "it's not like we can get a very big audience going in the Dome, so -"

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" - yeah."

She eats her breakfast. 

She is so bad at talking to people.

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They start discussing chords.

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Two more girls join them at the breakfast table; one of them is tall and pretty (it is, generally, a pretty crowd) and the other is curly-haired and looks utterly miserable. 

"His majesty's wife?" asks the one who doesn't look too depressed to be capable of speech.

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"Yes."

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"Hi! I'm Laila. Can you pass the apples -"

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Nod. She passes the apples.

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