As much as Abaddon might wish otherwise, the River of Souls is diligently guarded and flows mostly uneventfully. Rabiah, like almost all souls, makes it to the Boneyard to stand trial.

So, this is our latest petitioner. Who wants to send a representative?

Nirvana is for everyone. This isn't going to be the easiest case, but they've won harder.

She did something slightly interesting while in Osirion. Someone will show up.

The Abyss sends someone, or more exactly someone sends themself from the Abyss. There's infinite demons, there's usually somebody who thinks a new person looks worth having.

The petitioner only acted Chaotic over an inciting incident which won't happen again. Getting her seems worth trying.

Rabiah has been having a difficult time and someone with some lawyer training feels pretty sympathetic to her.

And thus, it is into this situation that the petitioner appears: A courtroom with a four-winged masked crow in the judge's position, and eight desks, five of them with a representative. Specifically, there's a dignified-looking rodent, an arbiter inevitable, a constantly shifting mass of fire and water, a horned woman with glowing eyes, and a butterfly-winged squidlike entity.

Oh. Yeah. Probably that is a pretty normal experience to have if a guy just beat you to death for not being his dead wife. Aaaaaafuckthisisscary. She looks pleadingly at the inevitable.

The inevitable doesn't seem to really do facial expressions.

Hopefully it can at least read them. Oh no there's a demon that's bad. Or is it a devil? Also bad!

The masked crow speaks.

"This court is now in session, in the matter of In re Hadiqa. All advocates have been briefed on the decedent's lifetime of thoughts and actions and their context."

The crow turns to Rabiah. "Do you know your name?"

"Rabiah Hadiqa."

"Do you know where you are?"

"My afterlife trial. Right?"

"Yes. Specifically, you are in the Boneyard, which is Pharasma's domain. Do you perceive us as speaking in a language you understand, using words that you are familiar with, at a speaking speed you can follow?"

"Yes."

"Do you understand that you had, while alive, the capacity to take actions, and that those actions had effects on the world and on other people?"

"Yes."

And it sounds like the answer here is yes, but ey'll stick to the script. "Do you understand that the purpose of this court is to determine your alignment and which afterlife you are assigned to?"

"Yes."

The nosoi turns to the representatives. "Axis representative, would you like to make the first opening statement?"

"I would, your honor."

"I think the most contentious issue this trial is going to be the petitioner's systematic alignment, and thus I will speak to it first. This petitioner, like most Osirian people, lived an almost entirely Lawful life. The most serious illegal act this petitioner committed was to take custody of her own child, and only in response to deception. Even after this act, however, the petitioner did her best to continue acting lawfully – she turned to a legal occupation, continued her prayers to Abadar, and so on. Many people, after committing an illegal act, would give up on Law entirely. The fact that this petitioner did not speaks strongly to her character. Furthermore, cases like In re Gadadvara suggest that seeking to restore the order of the family is to some extent itself a Lawful motive. Given these factors, I believe the petitioner is Lawful. As for moral alignment, the petitioner did not commit significant Evil or Good acts, and thus I believe she is Neutral."

She's not sure she's supposed to talk at this point in the proceedings - nobody gave her instructions - so she just nods along enthusiastically.

"Maelstrom representative?"