"Oh, definitely."

Nod nod.

And he gets them some rooms and recruits some paladins for speculation about how to fix Ibyabek.

Kyeo goes in to see Carissa after they've gone. Assuming he's still allowed to do that.

No one stops him. Carissa's hair is done up nicely and she is drumming her hands on the wall in front of her.

"Hey."

"Hi. I was curious how it went. ...your hair is different?"

"I asked a guard to do it. To be more tempting to that fraction of the male population that doesn't prefer me disheveled. And isn't gay, but the cleric was not trying to set me up with his gay friend, why would he do that."

"You... sound more stressed out than usual."

"Sorry. It went - fine, I guess. They had another go at explaining Good and made more sense, I think, though I'm still worried I can't actually be it. Their account was that Good is about preferring people not be hurt and generally acting like that, except when you're stopping them from hurting other people, for a broad definition of hurting other people that includes -" Vague gesture about her present situation.

"You... didn't hurt anyone that I know of?"

"I mean, if I got released I'd try to explain myself to my command, which would interfere with whatever they're planning, and I guess that counts as hurting people enough that they're allowed to kill me to stop me. ...I found it kind of unconvincing on that front in particular. You could ask the drow girl yourself, she was the one who was doing most of the explaining. - Drow means purple."

"...she's purple??"

"Yeah. I hadn't met one before and had to clarify that I am not Evil because I eat babies or something after she asserted that she would, if babies were served, but aside from that she made more sense than people mostly have. Maybe because her society is Evil too, so she's a little skeptical of the whole thing?" Shrug. "The one who might want me is Mahdi and I still don't know much about him but he did think I was hot so I guess that's a hopeful sign."

"Okay. I think there was a fourth one?"

"Adventuring parties usually have some muscle, probably he is their that."

"Are you going to marry Mahdi?"

"If he wants me! I'm not sure if he does, though, I can't keep up the being Osirian for any amount of serious conversation and I really didn't want to pass up the chance to maybe understand what Good is and get an Atonement...."

"What's an Atonement?"

"They cast a powerful spell and appeal to Iomedae personally and ask Her to - realize, on the level that matters for judgment, my change of heart and rejection of Asmodeanism, and if She thinks I'm sincere then I stop being lawful evil and I'll go somewhere else when I die and they won't have to kill me. I can maybe ask for Abadar to be appealed-to instead, I'm not sure, because it's so expensive they'll be really mad if I ask for it and then I don't count as sincere enough."

"Why is it expensive? Can't they pray for free?"

"It requires a lot of rare incense. I don't know why. Maybe the gods imposed the rule so people wouldn't be demanding their attention for Atonements all the time?"

"Huh.

Can't you pray for free?"

"I guess so. Gods mostly only act through people who are one alignment step away from them, though, I don't know if Iomedae would hear me. I guess it can't hurt to try."

"Abadar's closer? Right? - maybe I should try this."

"Maybe you should. You could look up and try a bunch of them, since you don't know your alignment."