Korva,

This sounds very difficult. I'm sorry that circumstances have allowed you so little time to solve it. I hope the approaches you're describing work, or that a better healing spell does; given the amount of magic available to you, I'm hopeful that something will be sufficient. (Another thing to consider is using Polymorph to assume a different form; this won't work for a pregnancy and shouldn't be tried if you have any hopes you're carrying one, but success with it might be informative and you might be able to time when it wears off or something.)

The other thing that I think you might want to consider is discussing with your husband whether he should have another woman. I understand that this can be a very damaging thing for a marriage, and very difficult for everyone involved, and if the situation were not already damaging and difficult I wouldn't suggest it. I know your vows don't permit him to remarry, but the pharaoh of Osirion is (because of the overriding importance of securing a good selection of candidates to be pharaoh) permitted women he has not married. 

If none of these seem like viable solutions, the routes you are pursuing seem reasonable too. You are in my prayers. 

She flops back on her bed.

It's not something they can fix, if Hagan gets someone else pregnant and she has his child and he's a father to someone else's children. There's no going back to normal; she'll never get to have him to herself again, even if they get the helmet off later. Good Hagan wouldn't abandon a kid to live without a father. 

It's better than rape, though. And marriages are only for this lifetime; if they get the helmet off and he wants Elysium then they can figure out how to get Elysium together. It's less terrible than letting him destroy everything they have. Less terrible to have half of him for fifty years than to have none of him, and - it's a way out, ultimately, it's a way to create an heir that people can place on the throne, it's a way to get the helmet off, eventually. It's a way to get him back. And - she doesn't know whether he'll still love her, after that long, but maybe he will.

It was always kind of childish to expect fidelity anyway.

She'll give herself the two weeks. Try healing. Try patience. And then try his plan. And then - better to have one last plan stored up.

She writes a letter thanking Fazil for his support and his suggestions. She puts it in the normal mail slot.

And eventually she is fetched for dinner.

Then she'll go to dinner.

(Any cheesy pasta?)

There is cheesy pasta. Also fish and steak and stuffed eggs and rolls and caviar and frogs brought to the table alive until you pour a pot of scalding sauce on them.

"How was your day?"

- well the frogs thing is kind of grisly but you know, whatever, she doesn't have to eat them. Rolls and pasta and eggs sounds fine.

"It was okay. Read another book. Got a reply from Fazil."

"We discussed it a bit. What'd he say to you?"

"Said we should try more powerful healing and maybe see if we can do something clever with polymorph, and that the existing plans we had made sense to him. And that if none of that worked we should discuss you sleeping with someone else."

"What do you think of that?"

"I don't like it but I think he might be right. I think - we wait the two weeks, and we hit me with healing spells, and we talk to clerics, and we check into any long shot replacement pharaohs you're still checking into, and then - if none of that works and you really need an heir soon then maybe there aren't better options."

"Because you having sex with me isn't a better option?"

"I feel like we'll know more about that in two weeks."

He nods. He murders a frog.

She wonders if being vegetarian gets you goodness points.

Eggs don't kill any animals. She eats eggs. And cheesy pasta.

"What about you, how was your day?"

"Tedious. You'd think if Abadar picks all his own clerics personally he could just not pick anyone who is going to run off with a lot of church money the minute the pharaoh dies."

"Has this been a serious problem?"

"There are hundreds of them. And I was like 'fine, kill them all' but Abadar threw a tantrum because he can't just replace clerics, right, it's not like killing one lets him pick another, so then we'll just have a shortage, so instead we have to figure out which ones can be scared straight, so they've all been coming in to tearfully apologize. I'm very tired of them. I told Fy she could bite the most annoying six."

"Gosh. I - guess that sounds demoralizing, yeah."

"Not many girl clerics, though, so I guess that's a point for your political opinions."

" - hm? You mean of the ones who stole?"

"Yeah. They're a quarter of Osirian clerics of Abadar but an eighth of the criminals."

"Weird. Wonder what causes that."

"Not sure. But it's interesting."

"Yeah.

"No clerics of Erastil yet. Hoping I didn't mess anything up in the requesting process. I guess also hoping that there are any female clerics of Erastil in Sothis who speak Taldane and have any experience with relationship counseling. Might not be."