"Medicine might be better than what deenthill can do, in the hands of an inexperienced priest, it's hard to be sure. Amentan technology sounds so far beyond anything most of us have ever seen."

She sounds somewhere between wistful and suspicious.

"I think so, yeah! I think it'll be a really good opportunity for everybody to learn new things from each other. My uncle who's an economist will be very excited."

"It does sound nice. I'll speak to Usir soon about finding a way to- prevent us from becoming like the reds, as far as Amentans are concerned. Hopefully we can find something that works for everyone."

"I hope so! Is there anything you want me to look up about technology or reds or anything?"

"Perhaps what it is that makes reds uniquely disgusting- if everyone else get clean enough to be getting on with but they can't, how does that work? It could be something we could change about ourselves, or if we're even luckier, something that's already true. And I would be very interested to hear about how Amentans heal ailments in general, if you can find a summary of it all."

"Surely that's too much to ask? Lintalai, please don't ask the everything questions if they would overwork it."

"The everything doesn't feel overworked, it's a machine," she assures them. She finds and reads aloud Summary Bank articles on "hereditary pollution" and "modern medicine".

Kelna thinks modern medicine sounds great! She's less pleased by the concept of hereditary pollution.

"How would we know if we've inherited any pollution? Usir's priesthood is- voluntary, my parents weren't priests, but I don't think this is something we're aware of at all."

"I think you can probably make the case that you haven't but I'm not a theologian."

Nod.

"We'll need someone besides me to speak to the priests more concerned with cleanliness and purification, then, and they will need to speak to your theologians. I'll start communicating to them now and have them sent over- perhaps directly to you, so that they can move with you when you found your settlement. It sounds like that might be useful to have in an Amentan city."

"It would be. I don't know how long it will take before I can start moving Amentans in though."

"I'll hold off on telling anyone to move just yet, then. Thank you for speaking with me, Lintalai. I hope I've answered your questions as well as you've answered mine."

"Yes, thank you very much for meeting me."

Before she goes, Kelna will offer to cast a spell on Lintalai which will allow her to detect her location and wellbeing from a distance. She can also predict (in very broad, good vs. bad terms) whether something Lintalai does in the next half an hour would work out in her favor.

"I don't think I have anything particular risky I want to try in the next half hour but you can cast the spell for telling if I'm all right."

Then Kelna will cast the spell!

"It won't be as much help as it would if I were a wizard, but I know wizards, and I have a close relationship with Usir. If there's ever a real emergency- don't hesitate to feel as bad as possible about it. The spell captures a complete picture- I won't come over a small cut, but I can pick a threshold to react to. Whatever you think is best. Arcadia is- one of the safest places in the universe, but it sounds to me like you're likely to be taking the most risks it's possible to take, within it."

"Yeah. It's very important though. You'll be able to tell how bad I feel about it?"

"Yeah. I'll know if you're scared or if you're calm about it. -unless it's different because of your species. For most Prime species, their hearts and their brains give off signals that they're afraid. Do you have those?"

"I don't have a pulse but I don't know about the rest."

Nod.

"The spell will still work, but it won't give me any additional detail than what your current health is like. Are there any ways you can think of that you might physically seem- malnourished or in pain- that I should ignore?"

"If I just trip and scrape my knee or something that's not a big deal."

"Alright. Good. We'll need more priests to make you- safer, here. Petitioners are safe, but you're not one of us. Why don't I send a message by angel when we've gathered the right bunch. It should take me a few weeks."

"The right bunch?"

"The right bunch of priests. We'll need to find people who are personally compatible with you and who serve the right kind of gods- purification, hygiene, things like that."

"What are they all going to do? The same spell or different ones?"