It's more evenly matched with that; he wins one, but loses the second game because he's starting to microsleep when it's her turn and losing track of where her pieces even are. 

"I'm afraid if nobody's been spared from cleanup and reconstruction to go fishing I'm not going to be able to find a cup of tea anywhere, sorry."

Leareth spends a while blinking at her before admitting that he can't parse that sentence at all, probably this is on him for being incredibly bleary. Tea...isn't...made of fish...? 

"No, no, tea isn't made of fish, but it's indicative of how much effort has been going into food, that no one is fishing even though the river's probably got as many fish in it as usual fire or no fire."

Nod. "- I am sorry, my mind is still stuck on imagining fish tea and how awful it would be. Imagine if you were expecting normal tea and then got a sip of that instead. I suppose it would be apparent first from the smell..." 

"Oh no, that would be awful. I guess a really good cook might be able to do a fish soup with tea flavor in it?"

"I suppose that I would be willing to try. Once. Out of curiosity." 

Eventually she decides they can probably go to bed and snuggles him to sleep.

Leareth is, in fact, alert and mostly cheerful again the next morning. "Well. I should remember how unpleasant the day after is when I consider doing that again, but - a productive two days even averaging it out, I think." 

"Yup! We have a conversant Shadowgod!" Smooch.

This morning Leareth has considerably more energy to kiss her back for a while before they both need to head off for their day's work. 

Good. She likes having him fully functional.

How many Companions are swinging through the Web-room?

A handful are already waiting outside! Sayshen says the entire herd is gossiping about it but most of them want to take longer to decide. 

Are any of them having additional conversations with Shadowgod?

None of them have been brave enough yet, aside from the quick back and forth one of them had before settling in to be jailbroken. 

:I was thinking of talking to Them but I'm not sure I actually have substantive questions, I'm just vaguely curious: 

:What about?:

:What talking to Them is like. ...What being a god is like, but I doubt They'll give a useful answer: 

:It might be worth occasionally talking to Them about things like that because it could result in Them storing useful translation-concepts? But yeah, I don't know:

:I think I'll see if I still want to tomorrow. How's Leareth recovering from his all-nighter?: 

:All better. Just needed lots of sleep:

:Poor thing. I worry it’s bad for his health, doing that. But I guess he has life-extending magic and a monkey to pop into when he needs to:

:Yes. And a lifebonded Healer. And one of these days I'll get around to Healerizing him too probably:

:Ooh, careful or he might decide he wants every Gift that exists: Pause. :...Figure you could give extra Gifts to Companions?:

:I've thought about that - I need to make you a backup out of a horse at some point and would want it to have the ones you're used to at least. It might be harder because you're architected oddly and who knows how all your weird emergency powers work but it doesn't seem out of the question: