"Wizards can make sure they don't get pregnant if they don't want to but other people can't."

"There are herbs that help a married couple have - three, not eight, if that's what they want, but there's nothing that I would recommend to a woman who really didn't want to have a baby."

"Cheliax has abortion but they won't because it's Evil."

"Oh. As far as I know ours works and isn't just a lot of abortions, though mostly it's handed out to people with health conditions incompatible with pregnancy. And the Morale Corps probably."

Carissa doesn't want to die so she's not going to have any opinions about whether this is a just way to run a society.

"Do you know how it's done?" says Isavel.

"I don't, I'm sorry."

"It's all right. Maybe once we make contact. Though - I think we want to do more research first."

"Of course."

"Are there more questions - I feel like we're off topic but I don't know what the topic was -"

"I just wanted to hear about your friend and also I was curious what was bothering you about Ibyabek."

"Well, I'm a cleric of Abadar, it was probably going to make me uneasy even if it was ...fine. But it's not."

"Thank you for answering my questions."

"Of course. I hope we can work something out for you."

Maybe it is time to leave now?

He seems to think so. They head out.

Kyeo has a lot to think about but mostly is not succeeding at thinking about any of it and is instead thinking about Sarham magically teleporting here somehow and hugging him and having excellent explanations for everything, which is stupid.

"We can talk more tomorrow," Isavel says, and then they leave him alone in his rooms.

Kyeo eventually decides to take a nap.

His nap causes him to miss lunch and a tray is brought. Otherwise no one bothers him.

He eats lunch. He goes to dinner, when it's time for dinner.

Today's topic of gossip is Osirion, since there's a cleric here to swap stories with. Osirion really is full of enormous stone pyramids where the ancient pharaohs are buried; the less well-defended ones have been looted but the better-defended ones are still intact; there is still a pharaoh today, the god-king Khemet the Third, an aspect of Abadar; Fazil says it's kind of complicated but Khemet is to Abadar as the human Iomedae is to the god Iomedae, sort of. He was not born like that and got transformed into it when his grandfather died. The pharaoh's palace and most of the important government buildings in Sothis are in the hollowed out carapace of the giant beetle Ulunat, one of the spawn of Rovagug, which some people say the first pharaoh of Osirion fought, seven thousand years ago. It reflects all magic and renders the inside unscryable and impossible to teleport in and out of.

All of that is interesting in a pleasantly abstract sort of way.

After dinner they hang around for a while, telling stories of past adventures.