"I'm out of prepared remarks for now, you have any questions?"

"I don't."

So Belmarniss leaves.

"How'd it go?"

"It's sort of hard to tell! Sometimes it seems like there's progress, but it tends not to keep feeling that way and she definitely hasn't gasped in amazement as all her corrupted epistemics fell from her mind like a broken enchantment in one fell swoop, y'know. I think it'll help if we can get her more space." Shrug.

"I guess that makes sense. It - feels very obvious, from the outside. But I guess most people are very attached to their politics whatever those happen to be."

"I guess. Kyeo doesn't seem to have this problem! But Kyeo got a divine revelation about it - of course, he requested one, I don't know if she's tried that."

"Iomedae probably can't reach her, right, I don't know if Abadar would have anything useful to say, He's kind of friendly with Asmodeus anyway, right -"

"Abadar is allied with all of the Lawful gods for the same reasons countries have pacts with all their neighbors, if you're clear where each other stand you're much less likely to accidentally have a fight."

"Yeah. But also - there's nothing inherently awful to him about Asmodeus, is there, Cheliax is a rich country."

"I don't really know."

"I guess if you make people value awful things they can be rich in awful things."

"Yeah. I think - there's probably a way to put in in Abadaran terms but I don't know what it is."

"And obviously it wouldn't be good for Osirion to be a target for Cheliax."

"That's one advantage of neutrality, yes. Low-priority target all around."

"I think if Abadar is right then someday Osirion will be richer and more powerful than Cheliax. But it doesn't make sense to pick a fight before then."

"Well. Let's get the girl her legal arrangement."

"I'm working on it."

"Is it looking doable?"

"I haven't heard back from anyone yet but I can't see why it wouldn't be doable in Absalom and maybe it could also be made to work in Sothis."

"Absalom's neat. I'm planning to stash my parents there when I get 'em back."

"It would be frustrating to have to burn a Teleport every time I wanted to check on her but I'll probably want to visit Absalom regularly anyway."

"And you'll have to give us a ride there regularly. Sounds like a win all around."

"She was very offended, that you'd check if she was all right. - I still think you should, obviously."

"I wonder why - I could see exasperated, but offended?"