Looking entirely calm, a giant ant rests on a cushion, eating some kind of fungus-based dish.
She has a look of intense bemusement.
”Wait, why are there so many mammals? How did that even happen?”
"Some places people leave extra children out to starve, but most people try hard to avoid it, because it feels really bad to let your child die."
"The other reason is that dead children go to the Boneyard, where they're really miserable, and then they mostly go to the Abyss which is even worse. And parents who let their children die also go to the Abyss. People in the Abyss are gnawed by demonic locusts. So people who don't want to be judged Evil try to raise all their children."
"Doing one's duty is Lawful. The Judge says one's duty is to care for their children. The Judge does not have mammals' best interests at heart."
"Not doing one's duty is Chaotic, and killing or abandoning your dependents is Evil, and the Chaotic Evil afterlife is the Abyss. The locusts are not a strictly necessary part of the Judgement, they just live there and no-one has been able to get rid of them."
"If you could die for more than ten minutes, I could send a message to your soul while you were dead and see if you got anywhere."
"Or I could try scrying someone you know who's dead. I'd need a picture or something they owned or ideally a piece of their body. And they could try to resist me and might succeed. And it takes an hour to cast, and I can't talk while I'm casting, so it'd be really boring."