"Right."

"Okay. We'll try to remember, anyway. In the nest is fine?"

"It has more to do with who can see you than where you are, but you can always ask for privacy in a room you've been given for sleeping - people will be more comfortable if you don't say you're about to have sex; lying about it is fine."

"...what should we say we're doing?"

"Most of the time you won't be asked, but you can say you're tired, or just that you want some time to yourselves, or anything that makes sense for what's been going on."

"Okay... sounds doable."

"Good. Did you have any more questions for me?"

"You're another cleric, right?" says Iss.

"Mmhmm. I'm a cleric of Lastai, the goddess of pleasure; most of my job is helping people figure out how to do enjoyable things well."

"...do they need help with that?" asks Uamok.

"Sometimes. I expect you like some artwork better than others, or very well made food, some of what I do is helping people with that sort of thing - figuring out how to get it, or how to make it, or what makes something good in the first place. And some things are enjoyable but dangerous, or risky to other people, and I can help people figure out how to do them more safely or help them if they get into trouble."

"You... help people get out of trouble for putting other people in danger?"

"Sometimes. Not as often as the other kinds of things I do - more often I'm helping someone who's gotten into trouble by putting themselves in danger. But if they took a risk and it went bad, and they've learned their lesson and aren't going to do it again, it doesn't actually help anything for them to be in trouble past that."

"It might help the person they hurt!"

She shrugs. "I've never seen a situation where the other person couldn't be helped just as well without the first person being involved at all, aside from having to stay away from them if they want that."

Uamok is skeptical but does not pursue the line of conversation.

"It's really not something we handle often; people go to Pelor or the watch for most kinds of crimes. Most of what I do is teaching classes and offering personal advice."

"...if somebody's been reported to Pelor or the watch how do you get them out of trouble?"

"It depends on the situation - sometimes we'll talk to them on the person's behalf, sometimes if there's a fine we'll help them pay it, sometimes depending on what exactly the situation is we'll help them hide until the watch stops looking for them. A lot of the time in those cases the person who reported them is upset but noone was actually hurt, and we think it's fine to help someone avoid the law in cases like that. Like if they did decide they were going to maim you for having sex in public."

"Oh, if nobody's actually hurt that makes more sense."

"Mmhmm, that happens sometimes. For a few different reasons - one of the common ones is that there'll be a law against doing something that could hurt someone - using fire magic in the middle of the street, say - and they'll punish someone who does it whether or not someone's actually hurt when they do. Or sometimes there are laws against things that don't exactly hurt people but make things less pleasant for everyone, like laws against having smelly things in nice parts of town; that kind of law can be a grey area, but we think it's best to try pretty hard to just talk people out of doing that kind of thing, and make sure it's easy for them to avoid it, and only punish them when it's really a problem and only that will stop it - Pelor's church will do that too, sometimes, but we usually think they don't try hard enough before they decide someone should be punished. And then some things we think there just shouldn't be laws against at all, that they only upset people and don't hurt anyone, like laws about having to wear clothes."

"...we were told we did not have to wear clothes," says Skon.

    "We barely have any laws about that; you're fine. And I expect Raafi will look after you when he brings you other places."

"Mmhmm."

        "I don't expect you to have trouble even in places with that kind of law, you don't look humanoid enough. But they're bad laws for us, too."

"Why do you have them if you don't want to wear clothes either?"

"Oh, we'd mostly wear clothes even without the law - they're useful, for one thing. But - humans have some trouble, most of us, with letting other people do things that we think are strange, even if they aren't actually hurting anything. And since most people do want to wear clothes all the time, it seems strange to them when other people don't, and they don't like it, and they decided it's not how people should act and made a law. That's why it's not going to be a problem for you, even in places where there is a law - the law is 'people have to wear clothes' but the rule people think about is just that it's strange to see a naked humanoid - you look more like beasts, and it's not strange to see a beast without clothes, so they won't even notice that the law says something else."