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Abadar uses a helm of opposite alignment on Hagan and a bad time is had by all
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"...he might eventually get bored of me and stop caring so much about me? Or he might just get mad that I'm not interacting with him well enough."

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"What do you think would happen for you?"

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"I would be a lot less functional. I'd - I dunno. Tread water. Wait to see how the heir thing plays out and see if Hagan ever takes the helmet off. Wait to see if he cares at all when he's back."

She's maybe crying a little again.

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"That sounds pretty bad."

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"Better than this."

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"What makes it better?"

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"Can't hurt me as much if I stop caring about him."

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"Is that just because you will have inflicted all the damage in advance?"

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"No? If I don't care about him I can care about other stuff. If I keep - chasing trying to have a relationship with him - then it'll keep hurting that I don't have one."

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"That makes sense to me."

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"Are you pretty confident that's what you want to do? Are there other things you're still considering?"

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"Kinda depends what he says next time I see him. I guess. Might ask Fazil for advice if I can figure out a way to word it without - making the pharaoh angrier."

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"Who's Fazil?"

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"Cleric of Abadar. Old friend of the Pharaoh's. I've been writing to him but - I don't know whether it's a good idea to try to tell him about any of what happened."

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"Is your worry that the pharaoh will be angry that you told him? Or that he'll pass it along to the pharaoh?"

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"Worry that people will prevent the letters from getting there. Worried the pharaoh will retaliate if he knows I complained about him. Worried it'll give him more information he can use to hurt me."

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"All of that makes sense."

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"What sort of reactions from your husband would make you decide to take a different approach?"

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"If he apologized and explained what had happened. If he came up with a plan to - keep this from happening again. And if he went, I dunno, at least three days without doing anything horrible."

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"Are you going to tell him that those are the things you would need?"

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"...not unless he at minimum expresses regret about what happened and can follow it up with three days of not doing anything horrible. I think."

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"That makes sense to me."

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