She fetches those. "Everything okay?"

"Hopefully. Pharaoh's planning to try using higher-level healing spells on me later today. With any luck at all they'll make things stop hurting. 

"Also he apologized for threatening to have sex with me before healing me and acknowledged that he shouldn't've. So - that was nice."

"Awwwww, that's really sweet!"

"Yeah.

"So - hopeful. Today."

Bounce bounce. "I'm really glad."

She hugs a pillow. 

"Welp. I guess today we - should work on Osirian and return the book on elves and - man, I dunno, I've been trying to fill up the hours so I don't go crazy and right now I might just have to wait - "

"The cleric of Erastil sent a messenger to say she'd be coming, too, I think."

" - oh, right. That's good too. Having a much better day, so maybe we won't end up needing much insight from them, but - we should explain the situation anyway, probably. Since they've come out here. And since we're not completely sure this'll work."

"The pharaoh has eighth level spells, I bet you it'll clear it right up."

"Yeah."

The cleric of Erastil is middle-aged and her finest clothes are clearly not up to palace standards. She appears to be trying to repress a frown at everything.

Zakiya shows Korva where to find her and then leaves.

Korva will go find her!

"Hi. Thank you so much for coming out here."

"My pleasure. What can I help you with?"

" - so. Um. I - assume that you're aware that the entire royal family was murdered four months ago and that Osirion has finally found a legitimate Pharaoh again. My husband. I - do not know whether it is common knowledge that until five days ago he was a chaotic good adventurer living with me on another plane, and that five days ago Abadar used a magic item to reverse his alignment, making him Lawful Evil, and therefore a possible cleric of Abadar, but also, like - evil."

"I did not know that last part. I was aware he was an adventurer on a different plane."

Nod. "Well. He - he was really good, I loved him a lot - I still love him a lot, but - there were a lot of things I loved about him that are just, like, gone, now, and sometimes there are new worse things in their places, and - we've made some progress, recently, but I still feel like we'll probably need - guidance, to have a functioning relationship again? And - that's what I wanted to talk to you about. Broadly. There are also more specific problems but - that's the root, I think."

"That makes sense. I'm so sorry for your loss."

"Thank you.

"I don't - really know how counseling for even regular relationship problems usually works - "

"Usually I ask women to describe an interaction they had with their husband that bothers them or sticks out to them, or that they feel their husband handled poorly, or that they feel they handled poorly..."

"...okay. Um. We're - last night was really good, I'm not actually mad at him at this specific moment? But - a couple days ago we were having a conversation over dinner, and - I think I said something about trying to stay busy, and he said that that was good, because staying busy was good for me, and I said 'Yeah, I know', and he said 'You know so many things. So smart. You must be mad that Abadar didn't put you in charge'. And - I got really - hurt, that he would say something like that just because I'd claimed to know something about myself, and - he said that he didn't mean it as an insult, so I said I would try to forget about it, and he said that he did mean what he said but he thought that probably I was being oversensitive about things because of - everything.

" - that's not the worst thing, or anything, it's just - the first specific moment I thought of. I guess."

"Before - this happened - if you had a misunderstanding about something he said, what would've happened after that?"

"I guess - if I imagine good Hagan saying that then I imagine being shocked but - assuming, I guess, that it must have just come out wrong? Maybe laughing? Because obviously he'd never reprimand me for claiming to know something really basic about myself? And if I imagine being in a state of mind where it bowls me over anyway, I imagine, like - him apologizing and asking what's wrong, I guess."

"I'm not clear on - was he reprimanding you?"

"Apparently not? He seemed confused that I got upset about it at all. He asked me why I wasn't mad, and I tried to explain the many reasons why Abadar very obviously should not put me in charge, but I started crying during it, so he used Calm Emotions on me, and I apologized for misinterpreting him, and he said 'I accept your apology'.

"He keeps saying that. He never says I don't have anything to apologize for. He just says 'I accept your apology' and moves on. And - he didn't do that, before. But - he did clarify afterward that he wasn't trying to tell me not to claim to know things and he thinks I should keep doing it. And that it wasn't meant as an insult and that probably I only interpreted it that way because I'm - oversensitive. Right now. Was the word he used.

"Also said that he thinks I'm smarter than him, which - I don't even know what to do with that."

"Do you think you're smarter than him?"