And eventually her staff can track down Verita. 

Oh good, that probably means that Korva needs something from her now. She follows without protest. 

When she reaches Korva's rooms, she waits for everyone else to get ushered out, and then hugs her.

"You okay?"

Petpetpet. "Could be better. Don't worry too much about me, I think - we're not in serious danger, not immediately. But I'd really like to - have some kind of contact with someone who has a - view of what the situation looks like to us personally. But I'm not allowed to talk to Fazil or Mahdi about - anything, by law, as long as Hagan is the pharaoh, so that's going to be difficult for me."

"Why can't you talk to them?"

"They're men. It's a - weird place here, Zara, but we've got to do our best with it. For Hagan, yeah?"

...nod.

"I'm allowed to send letters, I'm just - impatient. And I don't want to put too much strain on anybody's time. 

"Do you think you can - go find Fazil and Mahdi and ask them what's happening outside, tell them some of how Hagan is, and - see what they expect him to do, what they think we should be focusing on, what they he should be focusing on?"

"Yeah. Anything specific?"

...sigh.

She doesn't really know what she's looking for, here. She definitely has the intuition that applying Fazil to this situation will make it less terrible, but she's not sure precisely how. Yesterday she wanted to tell him that she was scared, and couldn't tell whether or how Hagan was going to hurt her, and now she thinks she has a better idea of that and doesn't want to worry him needlessly. But things still aren't actually okay, she just has a harder time articulating what her concerns are.

"...if they have any more information by now about what the helmet did to him. It would be good to know."

Nodnod.

"I'll see what they know," she says, and she's off to go find Fazil. 

Is there a temple inside the Dome? She figures she's gotta be safe from cultists as long as she's inside the Dome.

The palace has a big elaborate one on the ground floor and there's another one at the other end of the Dome.

She'll check out the palace one first. Anyone who looks like she's supposed to talk to them?

It's organized much like all the other temples of Abadar, if she's been in any of those, including a reception desk.

She'll go to that, then.

"Excuse me? I'm looking for a cleric named Fazil. I don't want to interrupt him if he's in a meeting but I'd really like to talk to him as soon as he's available. Do you know if he's around?"

"I can ask."

He does that. 

"He's with the pharaoh. I can take a message?"

"That's okay! I'll wait. Can you lemme know when he's done?"

"Sure. Are you going to stay here?"

"Yup. Unless you can tell me where to find a wizard named Mahdi before then."

"I don't know, I'm sorry."

"Then I'll wait. Unless it get past lunch, and then I guess I'll go and come back."

"All right. Do you want a scale, for the obedience to Abadar -"

"Nah."

She'll just... hang around playing with prestidigitation and listening to whoever passes by. Maybe she'll hear something useful. Or remotely informative about everything that's going on.

"Korva's upset that I won't make an exception to the rules for her," he tells Fazil. "I told her I'd ask your advice."

"I think I would need more information than that to usefully give it."

"She doesn't want to bow, not in private, because it reminds her of Asmodean teachings and because she feels like it is - embodying the fact she is less important than me. But - she is less important than me."