"Well, Fazil doesn't have the arcane background to praise your intellect and I bet he didn't think to talk up how good you are in bed at all."

"That would be getting several steps ahead of myself!"

"Is there something else we can do with the girl?"

"Not letting a wizard kill themself is a substantial constraint. You're going to need -"

"A geas, the kind that doesn't stick forever, every week. Or the extremely expensive handcuffs the paladins have her in."

"I'm incredibly clumsy at enchantments."

"It is one of your best qualities. But - yes, you'd have to pick up the spell."

"Bleh," says Belmarniss, shivering a little. "And inconveniently suicide's Evil, you can't just wait till she doesn't ping a Detect and figure she won't be going to Hell..."

"Yes. Probably they should just petrify her, honestly, but - twenty-three. Doesn't really feel like she got a chance. And she's trying to cooperate with figuring out something else. We should at least think about it."

"We got any idea how exactly those planets lack an afterlife? Banish her to one of those..."

"Depends on whether it is possible to summon devils to those worlds. And on - whether she could reinvent Sending, but she probably can't, in a world without magic..."

"It'd be hard. Scry, too. - they're positive she's really only third -"

"They had a truth spell up. I guess we don't know if she's close to fourth."

"Hard to tell. She hasn't had any bright ideas of her own?"

"She suggested we lock her up somewhere and let her pay her keep in magic items. Which works fine if we can find a wizard who wants to regularly geas and supervise her and front her materials costs, but -"

"But you don't think you can find anyone who'd want to do that without an additional bribe?"

" - I think that handing her off to someone as a prisoner will turn out worse than handing her off to someone as a wife. And I don't think I can find someone who's going to want to relocate to Lastwall or burn two Teleports a week on it."

"I admittedly do find this proposal less appealing than the other one."

"There aren't, like, specialist monasteries, or anything?"

"Not really. There are ones for men with abilities that require high security but - they don't prevent suicide."

"You'd think it'd be worth the money to somebody, to park her somewhere making magic items and have a non-wizard guardian who hires out the casting."

"I am sure it'd be worth the money to somebody. I am very concerned it's worth the most money to someone willing to mistreat her."

"Not totally persuaded that a marriage is that different, on that front -"

"Hey."

" - not what I meant. I mean, it all depends on one specific person while that person is selected for being someone who wants a pretty Chelish prisoner who's supposed to spend all her time under enchantments, that's -"