Kyeo doesn't remember enough of the fight to know what happened, and his head is killing him, but when he checks he still has his sidearm and also now he's apparently crashlanded on a planet with absolutely awful-looking hostile fauna, wow, and that one's coming his way much too fast and he draws and shoots.
" - ask my best friend, and then if he doesn't think it'd be a good idea ask him which of his friends he thinks would be suited."
"Why would he need to prevent her from having unsupervised contact with the outside world, she's already geased not to talk to Asmodeans -"
"You probably want a wording you're very sure doesn't have loopholes or ways a clever person can cause a message to eventually reach Asmodean ears, but - she should definitely have friends, Osirian marriages don't frown on having friends."
"My understanding is that Osirian women are supposed to never be alone with a man," Isavel says.
"This permits many friendships, including with men."
"...in the fashion in which you prefer to avoid solutions like 'wake her up in the middle of the night' we prefer to avoid solutions like "she could yell for help."
Isavel frowns, considering that.
...Kyeo would actually sooner not get into the reasons this never occurred to him as something he might do when left alone with Carissa, so he does not say anything about that.
"All right. I think we need to pray and then we might want to discuss Ibyabek more once we've heard from Iomedae. We'll let you know if we are interested enough in the ...marriage ...option to consider the confidentiality reconsiderations it'd require. - thank you for coming out here. I think it was clarifying."
"Hello. Ah, I asked the Abadaran cleric and his idea was to matchmake you with someone who'd like a wizard wife and can agree to geas you on a weekly basis to get one."
"They wanted to talk to the prospective husband first. The cleric has a friend to ask in mind if you want to try this."