"Where is the cleric from."

"He said Osirion."

"Also he thinks it's a bad idea to let you have male visitors alone, but they did not immediately change any policies when he said that."

"That follows from the 'Osirian', if you think women aren't worth anything once someone's fucked them you'd better lock them up to make sure no one does until they've paid their appropriate dues. 

I'm probably not eligible. Having, you know, been alone with many men."

"...I can tell him that if you want but it did sort of come up in conversation that the paladins have not been Osirian about it."

She looks like she has no idea how to feel about that.

"It is better than being dead and not even going to Hell," she says, after a while, unsteadily.

He nods. "Was there somebody in Cheliax you wanted to marry?"

"No!"

"Is there something the paladins should - check for -"

"I am not sure I know what you mean."

"To make sure he's agreeable? I don't know what you're looking for. On Ibyabek your brothers would be picking through their friends for you, most likely."

"Yes, because Ibyabek is like Osirion in that women don't get to do anything and belong to whoever's picked out for them and -

- I guess if it's worse than being dead I can kill myself -"

"They... might prevent that? Since possibly you would go to Hell."

Nod. 

"I hate them," she says, very quietly.

"Osirians?"

"I've barely met any. I guess so. I -"

Deep breaths.

Even more quietly: "thank you for telling me."

"You're welcome."

"Did you figure out what they were confused about?"

"Yeah."

"What was it."

"I'm not sure how to explain."

Nod.

"It sounds silly if I try. They were expecting Ibyabekans to decorate their houses more. They think people ought to be fatter. The Abadaran cleric kept saying we were all slaves and I don't think that's true, but..." Shrug.

"Does it make more sense than that to you and it's just hard to explain or is it that confusing all the way through?"