"I'm not biased, I'm selectively but truthfully informed."

"If you loved the people who stayed slaves while I was doing politicking you would be annoyed with me."

"Would you've left them if I loved them?"

" - well, no. But - that's an indictment of something about my priorities, all by itself -"

Snuggle. "I don't think you have to care about everyone exactly the same."

"I think it might be virtuous to set policy as if I did." Sigh. Snuggle.

There's an Aulë to spare now to make necklaces full time; he takes them to Liatsi rather than directly to the redmages - "because, ah, I'd rather this improve their quality of life rather than just increase their client load -"

"I'll do what I can, although as I've said before I don't directly control the Temple-Guilds."

"You have nonetheless frequently been possessed with good insights about how I can approach them."

"The schedulers are typically people close to those they're scheduling; I don't think it will be hard to convince them that their redmages should be a little better off." Pause. "My retired redmage is considerably more dwindled than they are usually allowed to get and may not be able to carry on much of a conversation even with a necklace. He has - some words, more when he's touching someone, but..."

" - we have people who can read minds, if that is something you or people close to him think he would consent to -"

"Iamica or his father would know better than I."

"I will ask them." He does, when delivering that Temple-Guild their necklaces.

"I don't think he'd mind," says Iamica. "He was never a private person - he liked telling secrets but only because people like hearing them -"

"Okay. I assume trying to explain to him wouldn't work -"

"I... think he can understand most of what I say if it's not too complicated, as long as I'm touching him and gesturing a lot, but only for a moment, not long enough to really think about it."

"Maybe see if the necklace helps with that?"

Nod.

And he gives them out, and expresses optimism about scheduling.

Iamica reports that he put one on Wiar and he cried and remembered her name and didn't want to let her go.

"He seemed - worse off?"

"He seemed to know more about what was going on, it's only that what's going on is he can barely remember anything -"

"We might be able to help more with better necklaces I just don't know -"

"We don't actually know how many people it was, the ones who showed up can't have been all. The Revel House didn't keep records. It might have to be an astonishingly good necklace."

"How long was he there -"

"Not very long. They did have records before, of people who wanted a redmage - they'd been trying to get one for years - they destroyed them all after they had them all told there was one in -

- the Queen had it burned to the ground."