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?"

"I don't actually know what's wrong, the cleric was sort of attempting to explain but it mostly involved yelling at me. But then - they scried another planet, and -" Shrug.

"...and?"

"They kept saying 'richer', and I still don't know what that means when Ibyabek doesn't use money, but it did look different."

"I mean, you can have - more food, more variety of food, nicer clothes, less work to do, better carriages, nicer houses..."

"Apparently you can, but - I don't know why - someone still has to make all those things - the cleric was saying that he expected people on Ibyabek would be bad at their jobs but I don't think we are!"

"You get assigned your jobs, right? Maybe your tracking isn't very good and lots of the assignments aren't actually the thing you'd be best at?"

"I suppose I can't rule it out but it's really not obvious, and the work gets done, and I can't figure out why making everyone require money to live and then handing it out for work and not otherwise making sure the work was done would work better!"