"Fascinating! Do people, like, raise those as livestock here, or are you going out to the savannah or whatever and stealing their eggs out of their nest?"

"Oh, they're just feral. People tolerate them because they make good eating and they tolerate people because people food makes good eating, I suppose." 

She decides not to mention her feelings about the local taboo on eating cats. The superstition seems to be an attractor even for foreigners.

"Did food just show up on the table where you're from? Sorry, that sounded kind of rude . . . what do you want on these? Here, cheese!"

"Mmm, smells tasty. Gods, I want to get big and all, but being this stuffed all the time is gonna be an ordeal at first. And you expect me to do, like, heists and shit like this?"

Oh, right, Katie's definitely still uncomfortable and claiming hunger out of solemn duty.

This is very hot!

"Umm, there are things we can do. First, you should probably try praying to Urgathoa, like, right here right now. to see if She clerics you right away. That makes the whole process of remolding your mortal form to Her whim somewhat easier. Do you have general prayer knowledge? Like, knowledge of how to pray that generalizes across deities? It's fine if you don't, they don't teach it in most places for obvious reasons." But they probably do in the River Kingdoms, from the sound of it.

Gods, she wants to pull Katie against her, but that would just be creepy now, right.

"Not really. Probably not gonna be useful, though, I almost certainly have too low of wisdom to even be a first circle cleric. Also, by remolding my mortal form, do you just mean fatter, or like, making it all gross and rotting or something?"

"Very much healthy. Just fatter. And stronger, and various kinds of more emotionally attuned and happier, if your body's currently bad at any of those things and you desire an upgrade."

She eats some of the no-cook stuff out of the cupboard. Salts/peppers/paprikas the frying eggs absent Katie's input.

She still thinks Katie should try it, but she's not gonna push it now. She has a feeling her own not-incredibly-impressive Wisdom won't sell the unholy life to Katie like it would to most people.

"Alright then. Have you literally ever gained fat mass before, that you've noticed?" Repeating past successes is a good place to start.

God that sounds nice. "I mean, uh, I grew tits during puberty. Uh, if you can call these" she gestures to them "tits. Does that count?" She takes a tiny nibble of the egg.

"—I'm hazy, I really need my reference book. I think it means you're less hopeless than you could conceivably be."

don't drool at the egg or Katie or the whole situation

"Do you know your alignment? Where your soul is destined, all that?"

"Not 100%, but probably Chaotic Neutral. The plurality of people in the River Kingdoms are. Wait, how does having been a twig my whole life mean I'm less hopeless."

"Well, you grew boobs at all. Some women don't. Sucks to be them, because Urgathoa doesn't like them as much.

She obviously likes you, in any case.

Do you feel the urge to eat at any particular time of day, or in response to anything in particular?"

[ Nom. She didn't even finish eating earlier. ]

"I uuh, not really, to be honest. I do generally get horny when I'm nice and full though, which is rare, or was before now. But when I'm hungry it's usually difficult to concentrate on anything. Sometimes my body just screams at me to fuel it and I do my best to shut it up and on rare occasions when the harvest is good this actually feels pleasurable rather than just alleviating pain. Those occasions are nice, though. Easily one of my top 3 things. Right up there with books and women."

Golarion is going to kill and soul-destroy this perfect soft creature to teach Tazich one of its interminable pointless lessons.

"Pattern to when you get hungry? Does using magic affect it? How are you doing now?"

"Uh, when I haven't eaten in a while. Idk like, when I'm really focused on something I tend to forget I need to eat and stuff until I'm about to collapse from hunger, and that can include magic but also reading and other things. I'm not as painfully stuffed as I was last night but I'm still feeling pretty satiated."

"Well, we'll solve the 'forgetting to eat' part . . ."

She flops her arms and head against a table and looks at Katie sideways.

"You still sleepy?"

"Eh. I am, like, half the time. Why?" God she's so cute. She hopes she's being invited to more cuddles.

". . . I think humanoids usually sleep like eight consecutive hours. I thought non-desert people were even more diurnal than us. It was like 3 hours past midnight when we fell asleep, and the sun is just coming up now."

"See, the impact of that is hard for me to judge because there aren't seasons in this godsforsaken shithole so I have no idea when the sun is supposed to rise and set."

"It's 7."

"Oh. Yeah probably more sleep at some point good then. Not complaining if it means I get to cuddle you more, though."

"If you think you can balance the egg plate I can start carrying you back now. Any other immediate questions?

I can try and explain why I was asking the stuff I was about your hunger patterns if you're interested. The answers you gave were informative but not conclusive. Full explanation will come later anyway."

"Carry away. And I am indeed interested. I'd be interested in anything if you were explaining it, frankly." 

Carry.

Nnnuzzle Katie's side. [ She is such a soft little creature! And other things which Tazich must keep from thinking about lest her concentration waver! ]

"I wish I could carry you one-handed and feed you eggs.

So, there's a cluster of divinity, which is not about Good, Evil, Law, or Chaos, but kind of like those other clusters it has its own internal patterns, works in its own self-consistent way. Urgathoa's part of it . . . you'll hear different opinions about Who and What else is part of it." She's not sure how much to say, about this. She's not sure what's true herself. "They think Lamashtu," she says vaguely. And Sarenrae. And Desna. And Rovagug.

"It goes by different names. Some are lurid, others pretentiously technical. Paradise, id . . . I still haven't figured out a good one." The others having their own ideas.

"Just like Lawful gods intervene with the Mortal Plane through a particular logic which is attached to self-prediction, and Abadar in specific intervenes through a logic which is attached to currency, these gods intervene through a logic which is attached to the day/night cycle."

She becomes quieter as they re-enter the more inhabited areas, then pauses a moment to see if Katie has anything to say.

"Huh, are Sarenrae and Desna part of it too, then? And like, Groetus, and Shinjuku or whatever that Tian sun goddess is called?"

She reflexively extends Katie out from her like a live bomb.

"Maybe?

. . . Listen, I really like you, if you're some kind of plant please just tell me now. We can work something out."

What kind of plant would she be, though?! Virtually nobody knows this stuff but them and a few cloistered scholars! She was really sure!

Fuck. Fuckfuckfuck. She's getting a bad grade in girlfriend, something which is both normal to not want and possible to achieve. "I swear on my life, I'm not plant, truth spell me if you can. I just, like, extrapolated, because Sarenrae is the sun goddess, or, well, a sun goddess, and Desna is the goddess of the stars, which is weird because some high circle wizards who have studied the heavens say the sun is the same kind of thing as the stars, just way closer."