"By and large drow don't care where their slaves wind up so there's no systematic encouragement aside from not wanting them to act up."

Nod. 

"Maybe when I can scry I'll check up on some slaves."

"I mean, it's probably not very actionable. Just wondered."

"Basic research with no immediate application can be worthwhile."

"True." 

They head out over the water. It's cooler, but sunnier. Sothis is visible as a black lump on the horizon.

She flops on her stomach and watches the water below. "I saw dolphins, when I sailed to Osirion."

"Dolphins are great."

"They're neat looking. Are they great in other ways?"

"They're really smart! They communicate with each other and hunt as a group and can learn pretty sophisticated problem-solving. And they're just very chipper. Always in a good mood. They have names for each other, though I can't make the sounds right."

"Speak With Animals doesn't do it?"

"It makes me saying things with my mouth sound right to them but I'd like to be able to really do it!"

"I will put it on my to-do list for when I'm a god." She rolls over and flips through her notebook.

"Good! What else is on there?"

"Lots of stuff. I have filed 'let Hagan make dolphin noises' near 'shorten procedure to render giant yellowcaps non-toxic'."

"While you're at it you can give animals an afterlife. Very unfair that they don't get one."

She turns a few pages and adds that.

"Long list."

"It's been accumulating a while."

"Where're the animals in the priority queue?"

"Them getting an afterlife or equivalent consideration is next to adding cleric spells or equivalent that permanently cure allergies. These aren't a strict ordering, just broad triage categories."

"Do drow get lots of allergies?"

"Drow die of allergies all the time, but, uh, that includes the nonfatal ones."

" - right, of course."

"Yup. It's just embarrassing if your kid can't have garlic. You couldn't bring them to dinner parties, it'd be so inconvenient."