No, she isn't. This is a very bad time to have a baby and they want to avoid it (he leaves unspecified what they're doing to ensure this.) They're just very worried about Saba's health, children at that age have so much less in reserve to weather bad times like this. 

That makes sense. They wish them well. They mention he could probably get carried in for healing at a temple for hardly any money, what with not taking up much space. It doesn't do much about hunger, but. 

He'll keep it in mind if Saba starts to seem especially sickly. He thanks them. Heads back, walking slowly.

It's hard to keep practicing his magic as diligently when he's hungry, and tired from it, and it's tempting to sleep more. He tries, though. He's getting pretty good at Charm Person now. 

She makes friends with some neighbors and they come up with a system where they combine what they've obtained for stew, and take back a portion of stew that weighs what they put in. It means there's a bit more variety, at least, fewer days with no meat at all and the occasional one where dinner is actually filling. 

Someone murders the governor. It's not really clear why you'd do that; he of course does not stay dead. There's a public execution of rather more coconspirators than the plot could possibly have had. 

 Parmida heard from a friend who heard from a friend that there's a spell that restores a corpse in an advanced state of decay to less-rotted. It's necromancy. If he could copy it -

He agrees that it's really not clear what murdering the governor would add!

Her idea about the spell is a very good one; he's proud of her for it. He would need to find a person who knew the spell, and it might not be a level he can learn - though his vague intuitions around the shape of magic think that it could be first level, in which case he could do it once a day, at the cost of losing his Charm Person fallback. He asks the other wizards he knows, quietly. Also pokes at researching it from first principles, though he's not optimistic he can do so at all quickly. 

Necromancy is...frowned upon...though less here than many other places. Eventually he can get a referral to someone who knows the spell. And is charging a fairly exorbitant price for it. 

Well, he'll see what they can scrape together. Parmida can maybe ask if the neighbours are willing to contribute something, if they agree to share any long-dead animals they can make sort of salvageable with it. 

The neighbors can scrape together a little bit of money, for that. Not enough. Halfway there.

"I could sell the wedding jewelry," she says to him. "You could get me more, if we survive, if we're rich -"

"If we survive, then someday we will be rich, and I am going to buy you magic jewellery," he promises. "I would not have asked, but - if you are willing..." He takes her hands. "You are far more precious, in my eyes, than metal and gemstones. You and Saba." 

" - are we not kissing because you'd be too tempted from there or because you don't really like it or because I'm ugly or - I don't have hurt feelings I was just suddenly curious -"

"It is not at all because I think you are ugly." He barely notices how her face looks; all human bodies seem like weird leaky skin bags to him, though he's getting used to it, and - finding her exterior more beautiful, now that he knows the mind inside it better. "I - I am not really set up, as a person, right now, to - think about that, so - I suppose 'I do not like it in general' is the closest, though... I mean, I have not tried it recently." 

"It's just that I think ordinarily if my husband said that to me I would want to kiss him about it."

Nod. "...I am - pleased, I think, I know the sentiment. I - do not feel ready yet for kissing, but...maybe someday." 

She sells her wedding jewelry. They have enough for him to copy the spell Restore Corpse.

Well, they should go looking for some long-dead animals, then, maybe in the places where garbage is dumped? 

There are dumps, on the edges of the city. The corpses of animals can be found there. A large one would be ideal, since he can only do it once a day.

He takes a morning off the laundry work and they can trek out there and search for a goat or something bigger, taking turns carrying Saba - Aroden doesn't want him walking and burning energy more than he has to. Probably they should drag it back before he does the spell, it'll be lighter. 

(He vaguely wishes he had gotten the floating disk spell, dragging a mostly rotted corpse in a blanket is not his favourite thing.) 

It's fairly unpleasant! But they can get their goat all the way back to their house.

He casts the spell, surveys his results. (According to the wizard, the flesh is still 'somewhat rotted' and isn't suitable for eating, but, well, they're very hungry and it's still protein and they can cook it a lot, and prestidigitation the flavour better.) 

The flesh in fact looks like it's been dead too long, it's dried-out and swollen at the same time, but there's so much of it!!! And it can sit in a hot stewpot for eight hours and then taste like whatever he imagines it should taste like.

Parmida is glowing. The neighbors are pretty delighted, too.

...He really hopes they don't get horribly ill from it. 

They should have just a very little bit, and see, and then if it's all right - it is - just a little bit more. 

"What we should really do is track down a priest and get them to cast Purify Food and Drink. It's a cantrip, I think, they shouldn't charge much for it - might do it for their share -"

They should definitely do that! He doesn't know any priests, off the top of his head, but is happy to accompany Parmida to go talk to whoever they think of (he thinks he'll look more - wholesome, legitimate, less like a dark necromancer - with his wife and clearly-underfed child). They should ideally ask someone who's not going to be bothered that he's using necromancy to feed starving people, but of course that might not be something you would know before asking. 

They get a couple of glares but it's not actually illegal, and eventually they hit on a cleric at Parmida's church of Irori who thinks it's a great idea, and would accept payment in kind.

And then they can have stew that is guaranteed safe for human consumption. 

Amazing! He reminds Saba not to eat too much too fast, he'll make himself ill, and he beams at Parmida and tells her again that it was an excellent idea and she's very clever. 

And he can pay some of the older and more reliable local kids to go search the dump and bring back the remains of the biggest animals they can find - skeletons are fine, and also easier to carry. He can cast the spell once a day, which on something goat-sized is far more than even his family plus neighbours plus the cleric can eat, so they can share some with Parmida's family as well as long as they're willing to come pick it up themselves.

(Other than that, he doesn't advertise this new capability.)