"Yeah, it would have been upsetting if she'd killed them - or wished she had -"

"I mean, I think it's a pretty - common and normal response? Wanting to kill people who hurt you? I don't feel that way, just, I don't think it makes someone unusually bad as a person. ...But I'm glad she didn't." 

"It might be that she'd have been fine with it except it would have maybe gotten her in trouble with the law, I'm not sure."

"Mmm."

"...what?"

"- Hmm? ...Oh, I was just - thinking that it's pretty reasonable for anyone, not to want to get the attention of the law. But then I guess the legal system here in Tantara is - probably less corrupt and horrible. Than it is in Predain." 

"...I mean, I think so, but it would still be awkward to have killed some people while possessed, that's hard to prove."

"I wonder if the courts even have any way of addressing it, if someone did something illegal but while they were possessed by a god? It can't happen all that often." 

"They probably don't, it's rare and it's also hard to distinguish from having a psychotic break even if you haul them to a Mindhealer. I suppose Vkandis might favor setting people on fire because it could prevent his followers from being in legal trouble since that's harder for a normal person to do but it's a stretch."

"It doesn't feel like the sort of thing gods would take into account? - Although I'm not sure why, we don't know much about what They care about and I guess it'd show up in Foresight." 

"It probably would! I wonder... what senses they actually have? Like - Foreseers foresee things but this involves sight. Can gods see. Or, if they can only foresee, does this resolve into images, or... something else."

"...Wow, that's a weird thought. I have no idea!" 

"Somehow I don't think anybody will know if I ask when I return the books!"

"Me neither. It seems like the sort of question that might be hard to answer even if you were trying to study it - I mean, if you tried to ask the gods directly I don't really expect Their answers would be helpful..." 

"Yeah. Whatever senses they have they are not ones that lend themselves to clear conversation."

"It's very inconvenient of Them." 

"They probably can't help it. They vary so if they could help it one of them probably would."

Nod. 

"...Oh, right - did the woman who got possessed by Bestet remember anything about what it was like?" 

"Yeah -" She points to that spot in her notes. "She seemed to have, uh, fond if vague memories."

Ma'ar leans in, rereads that spot in her notes. 

"....Honestly, I think being possessed by a god sounds terrifying - I guess I'm glad she's not traumatized about it, though?" 

"Yeah, I wouldn't like it but, uh, tastes vary."

"Apparently!" Ma'ar shrugs again. "I'm thinking a bit about whether it makes sense to, I don't know, try to help the order that worships Bestet open temples in Predain - obviously I'm not making a decision on it now, I'll have much more information later, but...well, it might help with the problem where I think women get mistreated a lot there. Maybe. I don't think I understand it well enough yet to know."  

"I guess it probably wouldn't hurt anything. The Eternal Flame sounded cool too but they apparently take marching orders from the god about where to send missionaries so if they aren't a place maybe they aren't supposed to be."

"Maybe not. Although - I don't know, depending on how things look whenever I'm done studying here, it might seem worth it to pray to Them and...see if there's any information They're missing about why helping in Predain would matter?" 

"Maybe! Or, uh, ask someone who's slightly more comfortable with possession risk to do it."