Lintalai waits for the information about what laws apply, photographing pages of Daernir's book as she goes because she might as well.

Daernir returns.

"No murder, no stealing, no fighting, no shouting, no keeping books for more than seven days. They have a bulletin board, though! Come look."

"Ooh, a bulletin board!" she says at a perfectly level nonshouting volume. She follows him.

Daernir reigns in his enthusiasm to make sure he's not shouting. To the bulletin board.

The board displays: a copper toy, a silver necklace, and several pieces of parchment. The pieces of parchment contain brief descriptions of various services such as 'haircutting', 'matchmaking', 'cooking', and 'budgeting', as well as the word 'angel' followed by names.

"I think I should meet an angel."

"Okay. Before meeting a Marduk priest?"

"Not necessarily but without waiting too long. They keep coming up and I don't know much about them."

Nod.

"We can take our books and look for a temple to Marduk. We might find an angel before that, and then we can stop, but otherwise we might want to look tomorrow."

"I don't need to bring the books, I have them copied into my everything, but you can bring yours at least till I've copied it too."

“Pocket everythings are so cool.”

They walk. Daernir tries to explain what all the kinds of people are- humans and elves more or less resemble Amentans, besides the hair, but the former tend somewhat stockier than Amentans overall and have more dimorphism, while elves are slighter and have differently-shaped ears. Halflings are half the size of the aforementioned races, and dwarves are about 2/3 the height. They both have more gender dimorphism than Amentans, but less than humans. Gnomes, averaging below three feet tall, don’t often frequent the same streets as humans and elves; halflings and dwarves only do because they’re so adventuresome, he says with a hint of pride.

There are other sorts of people, occasionally, but Daernir doesn’t recognize all of them.

"Do you know what the bird-person diviner is?"

“I don’t,” he says apologetically. “There are lots of kinds of people who are less common on the Prime Material, so I know about them- I know about the ones who start in the good-aligned planes, like angels and archons and things, but not all the kinds from the Prime Material.”

"What's an archon?"

“Archons are the lawful good native-residents-of-an-outer-plane. Maybe Mount Celestia? Or maybe all the good outer planes. I’m not sure. But they defend and protect people, and they punish evildoers and they make sure things go well. There’s a few kinds, and you can tell how strong they are by what kind it is- there’s hound archons and sword archons and trumpet archons- it’s probably not as important if you’re staying in the Peaceable Kingdoms, though.”

"Say native-residents-of-an-outer-plane again slowly so I can tell my pocket everything it's a loanword?"

Daernir repeats it: khamotzo.

"Was that one hard for the pocket everything to translate?"

"It translated it but I could tell it was a long phrase substituting for a simple concept. Khamotzo, thanks."

“Archons are the lawful good khamotzo, angels are good khamotzo but they live on all the good-aligned planes, modrons are lawful neutral khamotzo devils are lawful evil khamotzo...there’s at least nine kinds, I think, but I don’t have all of them memorized. Those were the ones that came up a lot.”

"And there are only angels here?"

"Angels are around doing a lot of things, but so do hollyphants. They're harder to convince usually, you have to be nice to them. And ki-rin and I think unicorns and phoenixes, but no one is sure if they're khamotzo- they might have been, but now some of them come here by dying, so I think no. That doesn't happen with angels or hollyphants."

"What's a hollyphant?"

"Oh, hollyphants are like...small flying golden mammals. They have tusks and trunks and big ears and four legs and they're about as long as a halfling is tall. They like to help good people and don't mind talking to neutral people but they won't talk to evil people."

"They can just tell by looking?"

"They can detect it with magic. Some spellcasters can, too, we can talk to Marduk's priest about it when we find them. I'm lawful neutral, last time we checked."