"It matters to me that this be actually aligned with your goals and values? It would - be attempting to build trust on an unstable foundation, otherwise. And I am aware that it is very difficult for me not to be intimidating and scary." 

"When I haven't committed serious crimes that you might found out about I don't find you scary. ...maybe just a tiny bit scary. A fun amount of scary."

How oddly pleasing. 

"Considered trying to seduce you. When I was trying to come up with plans for if Batty didn't work out."

"I am not sure it would have worked as a spying plan, I might not have noticed. Unless you made it impossible not to notice, I suppose. But - well, I do not find the thought of you doing that displeasing. Rather the opposite." 

This feels like a more optimistic gloss on whether he wants to be lovers than she was working from before. Maybe he really is just very confused and has no idea how to tell what he wants. 

"How obvious did the pharaoh of Osirion have to be."

"He took me on a date in Aktun but I had no idea it was a date until he informed me it was and that he had romantic feelings and thought I did too. - It was very confusing. Though this was immediately after I was murdered by summoned demons and he brought me back with True Resurrection, so I had a lot of feelings about that, I was probably distracted. Then I think he just told me outright that he was going to seduce me." 

"I see. Girls mostly are not that forward, you know. Whether somebody is going to put effort into winning you is some information about how valuable they're going to consider you once they've got you, so it's a bad strategy to make it too easy for them."

"I see. Does it work if I just tell you that I will consider you extremely valuable? ...Already do, in fact, you pointed out some key gaps in our security." 

"It doesn't cost you very much to say that at all! I trust you, because I happen to have a character reference from the manifestation of Iomedae in your conference room, but absent that I would have no more information than I started with!"

"Fair enough, I suppose." His lips twitch. "I could pay you for the service of having tested our security. Aroden had already considered having someone hire an expert to attempt to spy on us without informing him of it, though he decided against because of the risk that he would react reflexively and murder them if they were caught." 

"Why didn't he do that - maybe if I'd thrown off the Plane Shift, I nearly did..."

"Aroden would always prefer not to murder someone! And I suppose he felt secure that if he could transport you to his demiplane, you would be harmless there. And he expected he was catching you unawares, since he discovered you by reading your thoughts after Khemet had earlier noted something seemed off and I informed him of this. He might in fact have killed you and asked questions later had you thrown off the Plane Shift." 

"I was really close! I normally almost always throw off spells but he's very powerful."

"He is! More powerful than I am. Did you know, the way we met is that I was with some others attempting to spy on Rahadoum, and he found us out and kidnapped us via a Plane Shift to his demiplane?" 

"I did not know that! This really doesn't seem like something that would come up very often in a normal person's life! - if I was discovered the plan was to Dimension Door to where I had a scroll of Teleport and then Teleport to Vigil and tell them that Iomedae had better explain immediately whether I was supposed to go back to Cheliax and surrender to Aroden or not."

"That could have worked, in some scenarios, though Aroden has extremely fast reflexes. If you had been discovered by some of his other security people, though..." 

"Oh, I figured almost definitely if discovered I would die. But it was reassuring to have any kind of a backup plan even if I probably wouldn't get to use it."

"Yes, I know that feeling." He lifts his head to look at her. "I was thinking we could have dinner with Aroden and Parmida at some point. Would you like that?" Leareth mostly expects it to feel a lot less awkward than having dinner with her alone. 

"Sure."

Then that can be arranged! 

Aroden would be delighted to have dinner with Leareth and Carissa that night! He asks Parmida to check if Zahra would like to join them too. 

Sure, Zahra will meet Leareth's fiancee! (Are they engaged?)

She said that she's interested in marrying him, and didn't say otherwise during their conversation, does that mean they're engaged now? 

"What? No," Zahra says. "You are supposed to get a ring, and plan a very nice date, and then give her the ring and ask her if she'll do you the honor of marrying you, and then have an engagement party."