"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
-- P. C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask.
"Right, well, this is Broom, agent of the goddess whose purpose is hidden, I don't really get him very much, he can turn invisible, I would prefer he not do that around me though, I assume you've got contacts with his people, bring him along but maybe check him out before you let him loose."
"Broom, former halfling slave sweeping the halls in the archduke of Sirmium's villa, before I was chosen as the oracle of that goddess in the same moment as was Ione Sala chosen of Nethys. Aspexia Rugatonn did not wish to interfere with Her purposes, whatever they might be."
The Osirians look utterly unsurprised. "In Osirion halflings are free," their leader says. "We'll take you."
Broom will extend a hand, then, in the same moment as does Keltham.
Broom is, in fact, rather cheerful about this turn of events, though he doesn't show it, of course.