"No, sorry. Fell asleep."

"Yeah, I noticed. I should probably go check now, though - unless you need anything else?"

"No, I'm good. - thanks."

So she heads off and comes back a little while later saying that the cleric is here. "Also another one, from Absalom?"

"Oh good. I should - probably meet the one from yesterday again, and then - if you could tell the one from Absalom that I'll see her in a bit? Probably should see them separately, I guess."

"Okay!" So she sends in the cleric from yesterday.

She stays on her bed, hugging her knees.

"Hey."

" - hey. How are you doing?"

"Not great.

"Husband tried to heal me last night and it didn't work. We thought it had, so - we tried to have sex, and it hurt a lot, and he tried some more things, but none of them worked. Except when he used euphoric tranquility, then I was okay until the spell wore off. And then I started crying again, and - I didn't tell him to stop, but he told me to get out, and said that if I stubbed my toe I'd probably wake the whole town with my crying.

"So. Not great."

"I'm so sorry. That sounds really scary and really upsetting."

Nodnod.

"Do you want to talk about it in more detail?"

"Like... what."

"Well, a few things that seem important to figure out would be...is something like this going to happen again? Is there something you can do for yourself to make sure it goes better if it does? Were you surprised by anything your husband did? Do you think he and you have the same story about what happened?"

"I don't know if it's going to happen again. I - don't know what you mean about making sure it goes better. I was surprised that he responded to me being in pain because of something he did by throwing me out of his room and mocking me for it. I don't think we have the same story about what happened because his version is probably mostly about how I'm a whiny baby."

"About making sure it goes better... hmmm. Imagine it was yesterday again, do you think you would have done different things, if you'd known what you know now?"

"I wouldn't have agreed to have sex with him."

"That makes sense."

" - but this isn't actually an option, not long-term, he's already said that eventually he'll have to force me and - I don't know how to square that with this."

"You mean, you don't know why last night he snapped at you and told you to leave if the thing he intends to do about this situation is force you?"

"I don't know what to expect him to do about any of this in the future."

"Mmhmm. That sounds - really scary."

"Yeah. I guess."

"Do you actually want to talk about this?"

Nodnod.