"What do you mean by 'where'? I think they can pray for them wherever they happen to be."

"I meant do they get them from books or uh, one of your novels implied it was from some people called the Lords of the Abyss?"

"Oh, clerics don't use books. They can use scrolls but they have to be cleric scrolls, they can't use ours. They prepare spells like wizards do but they do it by praying, no spellbook, and can get whatever their god or demon lord gives out. I think surfacers mostly do gods but demon lords are more popular down here."

"Uh, what do you mean by gods. Or demon lords."

"Gods are... above some particular power tier, I'm not actually sure how theologians define it because I'm not a particularly religious sort, and able to empower clerics, but obviously some things that aren't gods, such as very powerful demons, can also empower clerics. Demons are Chaotic Evil outsiders from the Abyss, which is the Chaotic Evil Outer Plane."

"Do gods... do things other than empower clerics?"

"Sometimes, but some of it's pretty debatable, like, Cyth-V'sug could be giving some farm a bumper crop but it could be luck."

"Huh.... on my planet there's some debatable evidence for a god - or gods in general - existing, but it's not very compelling and diviners who have checked almost universally report negative results."

"...okay, well, that is not the consensus here but even if you really wanted to go to church once a week I couldn't bring you."

"Because only drow go to your church?"

"To any of them down here, yeah."

Nod.

"Um, this isn't related to your world but I've picked back up embroidery more easily than I expected so if there's something you want embroidered with a particular design I can probably do a half decent job at that."

"I don't really fuss much about my clothes."

Nod.

"Also you're a human so you can't possibly have had very much practice, though I guess if that made you slower instead of sloppier it might work out all right since mostly this is to give you something to do."

"It is definitely making me slower, yeah. Why can't humans have much practice?"

"You die of old age when you're like, Sovi's age."

"How old is that?"

"She's in her seventies."

"Ah."

"Yeah. Halflings can sometimes get really good at embroidery and they don't live a whole lot longer than I understand humans to do, but that's 'cause they're little, they can make teeny stitches easier, and also they aren't trying to also have a life while employed as enslaved embroiderers."

"We... probably have machines that are better than any human at embroidery on my planet, at least along some axes... and magic for people to be de-aged, but that's really expensive and the machines are much cheaper."

"Magic that makes people immortal is also expensive here."

"Are there wizard spells that do it?"

"Presumably, but I have never personally aspired to join the legions of the undead so I don't even know what circle you have to be off the top of my head."