"That works too, I can sell spells a while and pay you back if no investors throw an adventure at us."

"Where're your parents going to want to live?"

"She likes cities. I might be able to sell her on Sothis. She's a sorcerer, she can support them okay. Might prefer Zeun, I guess."

"Is she likely to get killed again there?"

"Her family isn't there so she'd have to get into some sort of fight. It'd be less safe than here, probably."

"I mean, safe's not everything, but -" shrug. "Guess you can give her a ton of money, if the plan's to keep adventuring."

"'S one of the ways Zeun might be less safe. But, y'know, sky fireball, racism, sexism."

"Yeah. I bet eventually they just decide that drow women aren't, really, in the relevant sense, women. At least not while they're not trying for children."

"What about when she wants another one? She might."

"Well, it'll be harder to get Osirion to bend about that. But I dunno, maybe."

"I'd say 'she can just get my brother back' but he's like fifty and seems to have fallen in with some people and probably likes them."

"And you're not sure what to expect for your dad?"

"What to expect about - what? Where he'll want to live? He died when I was pretty little, I don't remember a lot of details, but I'd kind of expect him to think that's up to his wife."

"Then she can probably just get him to do stuff, if she wants to live in Osirion. Most of the actual limits on what women can do are what their husbands will permit, right, there aren't many places that won't sell to you if he says it's fine."

"I mean, that works till he has a job or something."

"Once people know him he shouldn't need to actually be there every time? Maybe I'm too optimistic, I haven't actually lived here very much."

"And I coast on being an adventurer. And a caster, but I think that helps less for married women? I get asked if I'm married before I get asked if I cast whenever someone doesn't care to assume by looking at me."

"Yeah, if you're a caster then you can almost coast like you're your own household but if you have a husband then you evidently aren't." Sigh. "I think it'll change over time but it'd help if - I had a clear sense of what to be hoping it'd change into."

"It doesn't seem like it should be conceptually difficult but I must be missing something because I'm not aware of anyone getting it right!"

"Yeah, it's very discouraging. I would've actually expected Elves to not have a problem, I sort of figured it was mostly a problem because people can't choose whether they get pregnant except by staying away from men, but - apparently that does not solve it, or not very appealingly."

"I don't know what the surface elves are doing. Well, 'dying out', but other than that."

"Never been there. A couple years ago all the Good adventurers in Absalom were talking about plans to defend Kyonin, if Galt and Cheliax should war there, but Fazil wouldn't go and me being there would have all this potential for geopolitical complications I couldn't explain so we stayed out of it."

"Wouldn't go due to the anti-war stance?"

"Yeah. Or not - I think if Cheliax invaded he'd go. But if it's complicated then Abadar says stay out of it and sell things."

"I wonder how Abadar feels about mercenaries."