"I don't see how it'd stop them hurting me if they wanted to to have more of them in the room anyway!"

"It would... be crowded? I don't know!"

"Good." Miserably.

Shrug.

"It is a reasonable strategic priority for them not to let me get pregnant since I think that'd mean they lost Good points for killing me but aside from that absolutely none of it makes any sense."

"They're only allowed to kill you if you aren't pregnant?"

"Yes. I'd heard that years ago and I asked my elderly man about it indirectly and he mostly confirmed it.

It's such a stupid ideology."

Kyeo is pretty sure he should not try to get her pregnant, not least because he is reasonably sure he cannot physically accomplish this, but: "That's very weird!"

"I hate them." She doesn't actually sound angry though, just very small, and very scared, and very tired.

"I can go ask - who am I asking what, again -"

"Uh. The cleric whether he'll come here if other people do too."

"And I'm telling them that - marrying his friend is probably better than dying and not going to Hell, or do you just want to talk to him about his friend first?"

"Please don't tell him that, just tell him I'm maybe interested. - if I say 'well it's better than dying' then I get the population of men who specifically want to marry someone who thinks that, if I pretend I just think it's a good idea then I maybe have a shot at the population of men who don't specifically prefer the thing where I am a prisoner. More than all Osirian women are."

"Okay. I can tell him you're maybe interested and want to talk."

And Kyeo knocks to get out and goes looking, with some trepidation, for Fazil.

He is talking with the paladins.

Kyeo will wait. (And eavesdrop, if it counts when he's not hiding.)

"- in Aktun more than half of people work for pay at least ten hours a week," he is saying. "About ten percent work more than eighty - adjust that, obviously, for them not needing to sleep, so eighty is still only about half of your time..."

            "The people who don't work for pay, what are they doing?"

"Hobbies, I think mostly. Writing, reading, drawing, dancing, drinking, competitive sports - those pay but only at the highest levels - if you had that on the Material plane I think you'd see something more like what you see from retired wizards. Studies of areas of interest, exploration, time spent with children and parents..."

Kyeo doesn't know what Aktun is. Maybe it's like Hell, only not on fire.

"Kyeo," Isavel says. "Can we help you?"

"Carissa might be interested. And would like to talk to Fazil - with company if necessary."

"It is necessary," he says immediately. 

        "Kyeo, do you want to go with him?" says Isavel.

"All right."

"Is that enough or does it specifically need to be another woman."

"It doesn't specifically need to be another woman but it should probably be someone who'd - feel comfortable reporting to you if something bothered them?"

"I can come too," says Isavel.