"Was I - you should not have sex with a man not your husband, or give people the impression you have or are trying to arrange to."

"And women are fine since they're not really people anyway?"

"...women are fine but not for that reason."

"What is the reason?"

" - well, it's fine for two women to be friends, right? And - at what point would you say it stops being fine?"

"You also said earlier that it was possible for women to be friends with men under your system, which seems true if they're willing to have witnesses - can women only be friends up to the point where they're not prepared to carry on any farther in the street?"

"The reason for the witnesses is to avoid a situation where it might be rumored they had sex, not to constrain their behavior to whatever they're comfortable with the witnesses seeing."

"I do not know how two women or for that matter men normally have sex but I assume rumors can spread regardless."

"I...don't think that a rumor that two women had sex would matter. It certainly would not call into question the paternity of any children."

"Oh! I suppose it wouldn't. Is that the reason people gayly have affairs in Osirion then?"

" - yes."

"- I suppose there isn't birth control. Or, uh, magic birth control."

"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."