"Ah.

"I assume I'm not allowed to go to the rest of it. Or go outside ever."

"You can go to the rest of it escorted. And you can go to the other palace. - uh, assuming your husband approves."

"Ah. Better not assume things about him, I guess."

"Most of the pharaohs haven't wanted all their wives gone at the same time but we haven't had one with just one wife."

"Yeah. Makes sense. Uh - you can go get someone, I guess."

"Okay!" 

She heads off to do that.

Cool. 

She'll... start working on the second Osirian history book, for a bit here.

And a language tutor can be fetched.

Then she can try working with the language tutor until dinnertime.

And they can have dinner. He put their chairs closer together this time so he can touch her, since this morning went so well.

....aaaah? But - maybe that's better than weird excruciating distance, she should, like, give him the benefit of the doubt here and try eating and not panicking about this until she has more reason to. Probably.

"Hey."

"Hey. How was your day?"

"Passable. Read two books, sent some letters out, started working on learning Osirian. You?"

"Had some meetings. 

If Abadar wants to run the country he should run the damn country, in my opinion. Just tell them all how to do things."

"Does he not? I dunno how the whole - whatever you guys have going on works."

"Apparently he just selects people and then lets us sort most things out ourselves. Which is why it's so important for him to have a lot of selection."

"Oh. He doesn't help you?"

"I can like any other high level cleric cast the spell Commune -- or I will be able to once I can cast high level spells -- and ask him short questions."

"Ah.

"What's, like, going on out there so far, with the government and stuff?"

"A lot of people did a lot of unauthorized things while no one was in charge and now they all have to be tracked down and brought to justice. A lot of other countries were considering invading and we're trying to determine whether they've stopped considering that. We're out of money, from all the emergency operations conducted around the pharaoh's murder and the preparations that were underway for a war, so we're raising taxes and might shut down the unprofitable prisons."

"What happens when you shut down a prison, do you execute everyone who was in it?"

"No, you sell them into slavery."

"Ah."

Patpat. "Don't worry about them, they're criminals."

"Sure."