:Do you think there is anything more to it? I guess probably Aroden would've noticed, if there were.:

:Aroden did not seem to think there was any - permanent damage, at least, I am sure he would be able to tell:

Nod. :I'm - slightly surprised that if he died in this state - which he must have in your timeline? - he'd come back. He doesn't seem very... motivated to fight someone for their body -:

:I think that happens mostly on instinct. And - he is motivated enough to do some things - he kept Ekunde’s family alive on the boat in the storm for quite a long time. I suspect it is easier for him to do things in life-or-death situations:

:That makes sense. ...I assume we should not on those grounds arrange any, or anything.:

:Heh. No. I - am not sure doing things would actually be good for him if it were in that context, much as it disturbs me more to see him not doing things:

:Fighting to keep the boat afloat does not seem to have helped, certainly.:

:If anything it seems to have left him in a much worse state. And - I have a suspicion that so has coming here? Which I do not understand at all:

:I think he's - jealous of the better hims? I don't think that's the whole of what's going on, though.:

:I wonder if it - feels like a demand on him? There is a new and complicated situation that calls for re-evaluation and rethinking all his plans, and he is not in a great position to do that, especially not right after he nearly died:

:That makes sense. And his not doing things is causing problems and concerning people...:

:Yes, he must be distressed about that: 

:Well. It is not what we expected but it's probably recoverable.:

:I think so. Just... I wish I had a better idea of what would help him, or even just what to expect from here: He twists to look Khemet in the eye. :You...said you have been unhappy in a similar way before? How long would that last for?:

:I don't know. Months, sometimes. Usually not a year.:

:Mmm: Leareth squeezes him. :I - did not know you had been so unhappy. Has it happened in the last four years?: Since he’s been here. He’s going to be irritated with himself if it turns out it has and he utterly failed to notice anything.

: - much less since we met, though I think that's less to do with you and more to do with the Healers making it more efficient to have children. I wouldn't expect you to notice, I don't tell anyone or do anything differently.:

It’s not like Khemet owes it to Leareth to tell him about things like that, of course, but - it still stings a bit, that he didn’t.

Leareth hugs him more tightly. :The having children is so bad for you. I wish I - felt more that Abadar could understand that kind of cost and weigh it appropriately, when asking this of you:

:I really don't see how He could, it's a odd thing entirely specific to me. Most people think of that part as a perk, I think.:

:It is the sort of thing that Aroden would not miss in one of his clerics, I think. Maybe the having been human is necessary:

:Maybe. Anyway, I wouldn't prefer Abadar had picked someone else, which is the kind of thing He wouldn't miss.:

:I suppose so: 

The conversation is feeling depressing, and Leareth thinks that maybe he wants to just hold Khemet for a while. And then kiss him. 

Khemet doesn't think of the fact that he's sometimes sad as a very interesting topic of conversation and is happy to just kiss instead.

This is much better! 

They can quite easily occupy an hour with that and other things, and then Leareth regretfully excuses himself to head back to Egorian. :I must make sure not to neglect my wife. And Tadesse might need me at some point:  

:I think we've been - thinking about adding new yous as socially not very complicated, or at least I have, because they are yous and we already know we'll trust them and get along with them. I think probably that's a mistake, and we should be thinking about it as - maybe not literally as complicated as remarrying but in that genre.: