"Hopefully here they do. Bangkok? Not so much."

"But now there are going to be so many people you can help. Thousands. Tens of thousands."

"I'm going to be so busy with infectious diseases that I won't have time to help murder investigations."

A different deity would make a deal with Asmodeus for Bun's safety.

But Immonhiel is not shaped to win against Asmodeus in contract negotiation, and is too Chaotic to easily consider herself bound by them; so she sends one of her mortal forms to--

No, she does not. 

?!

If gods start being involved with the anomaly it is going to lead to a godwar with Zon Kuthon. Nethys told her.

WHAT.

Therefore no one is allowed to touch the anomaly. 

...what if she gives her part amnesia. 

Otolmens is UNHAPPY ABOUT THIS but realizes she has LIMITED ABILITY TO ARGUE.

"You can teach people to investigate murders!"

"Unless there are a lot more murders than I think, I think smallpox and cholera are probably bigger priorities."

...people in Good countries don't kill each other for political advancement. 

"No more cholera, no more smallpox, no more malaria-- can you help with the little babies, the situation with the little babies is really bad--"

"It depends what problems their having? Some I can solve easily, some will be harder." ...he's going to have to work out a whooping cough vaccine. And diptheria and tetanus and a whole lot of other ones--

"About half of all kids die before they have an alignment, and then they go to the Boneyard which is-- probably the worst afterlife other than Chaotic Evil, it's not designed for mortals, it was supposed to be a place that people went temporarily before their alignment trials and there are tens of thousands of baby souls there with no one to take care of them."

THAT IS HORRIFYING??? "I'm going to have to chase so many people to make they wash their hands." Because that is the one bit he can grasp enough to put into words.

...Tanidio thinks about how Bun cares about the babies. Chrisor cares about the babies because more children going to Hell will make Hell more powerful, and that hastens Hell's inevitable victory and pleases Asmodeus, and both of these facts mean that Chrisor will spend his afterlife with more and better slaves to shape as he likes. Tanidio... mostly cares about his mother not having to go hungry anymore, and the people paying him would care about the babies, so he cares about the babies. 

Bun... just cares about the babies. Not just because they're paying him. It seems like Bun would pay them, if it meant that fewer babies would make the Boneyard. 

Tanidio didn't really realize you could care about people you haven't even met. Or-- he knew that Sarenrae thought that every single soul no matter how obviously Hell's should be hers, which is why she petitions for them. And he knew that Iomedae wants the whole world to resound to the greater glory of Iomedae. And he knows that someday every corner of the universe will be Hell. And if you're far in the service of Iomedae or Sarenrae or Asmodeus, then you start thinking about people you don't know like they're a little bit yours too. 

(Tanidio, who is not that far in Asmodeus's service, knows that his mom is his, and he guesses her slave as well because of the definition of ownership, and has never really felt much desire to own or care about anyone else.)

But Bun... doesn't seem to think the babies are his...? It is a strange, confusing thought and Tanidio isn't really wrapping his brain around it. He doesn't want to save the babies so that people will be grateful to him, or the Buddha, or anything like that. Bun is a very strange person. 

There is something warm in Tanidio's chest, which is probably the wine. 

--and to one goddess's eye, the warm thing is as bright as a lightning flash, in Cheliax where such lightning flashes are few. 

She looks closer, and then she says, Sarenrae, I think you'll find this very interesting. 

A visitor from Earth? That is interesting.

...Those concepts he brings in his mind are also very interesting. 

The other one is mine. 

She'll have to be careful. 

She'll be careful. The warm bright thing is something Asmodeus can't see at all.

...Earth has really made quite a lot of progress, hasn't it.

"Please tell me you already know about handwashing." They don't. Almost certainly.  Why would they know about it.