"...why?"

" - because it is our responsibility not to transfer our prisoner into a situation where she is going to be abused, and a woman handed to a foreign man who has formal license to geas her and prevent her from having unsupervised contact with the outside world is often going to be abused."

"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."

"I'm not sure she'll like that but I will still mention the option, I suppose."

"We haven't been avoiding having her alone with men."

"Really? Uh, not to be crude, but, in expectation if you allow that a lot someone will rape her."

"With a guard within earshot, having informed her she can call them, and with people who we trust and who Iomedae chose."

"...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.

He seems to not prefer to argue the point further either. 

"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."

"I'm glad we could arrange it."

Kyeo will... go visit Carissa now, shall he.

She is in the same place as usual.

"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."

" - well. Were the paladins in favor of that?"

"They wanted to talk to the prospective husband first. The cleric has a friend to ask in mind if you want to try this."

"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.