"I'm aware that you're working really hard on this and I appreciate it."

Sigh. Snuggle.

"D'you think - you could maybe sometimes say things to me in the morning before you tell me to go?"

"Yeah."

"Okay. I don't wanna make mornings stop being good, but I wish they - could usually end on positive notes too. I guess. I realize that's probably not always possible."

"Pretty much depends on whether they need to be creative things or just - things. I can pretty much always say I love you and I know you're trying very hard to do what I need."

"They don't need to be creative things. You could just - say that you're really looking forward to seeing me at dinner. If you are. That'd be nice."

"I expect I can almost always do that."

"Okay. Thank you."

Snuggle.

Snuggle.

"When do you wanna do the - hit me with regenerate, and stuff - should be able to do that at any time, right, if we're positing something that it would fix at all - assuming that the crown's going to be a bit, I think I'd really like to try it, y'know, before the two weeks are up - "

"I need Wish a couple times. For higher wisdom, that's apparently why I can't cast the higher level spells. I told them to use them on trying more resurrections, first. But I can get the spells this week."

Nodnod. "That makes sense. Okay."

"It's expensive but we have some ways to make money."

"What are they?"

"Well, there's closing the prisons, there's raising the taxes, and then I told Mahdi that if he gave me a hundred thousand gold I promised it wouldn't be dangerous to go live his life exactly like he'd been planning to."

"...where is Mahdi gonna get it?"

"Well, he was planning to laze around in semi-retirement casting Teleport once a week and instead he'll have to cast it every day for, like, seven months."

"Ah.

"That's good, I don't feel bad about this part of the plan at all."

"Oh, good."

Snuggle.

"Don't like the other elements?"

" - uh, I don't know enough about prison systems to have a very informed opinion on that, and as a former member of the working class I am nervous around taxes on principle."

Petpet. "It'll probably be bad for people. Not as bad as having me be weak, though."

"I also have a very poor view of the political ramifications of anything that happens, from here. Just - wanted to point out that the Mahdi thing seems like a good stopgap measure."

"I thought so! Fazil was worried I was - turning intangible things into tangible ones, but I think the intangible things are gone anyway, Mahdi was considering whether to flee the country because he thought I might kill him."