"Sure. Anything in particular?"

"I don't think so. The Pharaoh wanted to see her."

"Should we also slip him some age-appropriate presents or things her tutors are saying to compliment her on -"

"I'm not sure. I guess I can ask him tonight if he'd like that sort of thing in general."

"Khemet II had us write up little daily reports, by the time he had forty grandchildren they were ridiculous."

Nodnod. "I can ask him.

"Could you get me a new book?"

"For sure. What about?"

"Anything. Surprise me."

"You got it. Want to get fitted for the dresses now -"

She's actually still kind of in pain - not especially from having sex, just, like, in general, she's finding that various other parts of her are getting more and more insistent about aching. The easy thing to do would be to rest in bed all day. But there's no particular reason to expect this to change, and she does have to get fitted for dresses at some point.

" - yeah. Now seems good."

Then they can go get fitted for dresses.

She can be very cooperative and try to come up with ordinary unobjectionable opinions if anyone needs her to have opinions. It hurts, but not any more than anything else does. Afterwards she can read a book, and spend at least as much time just sort of staring blankly into the book, and hopefully at least have something to talk about at dinner. She thinks that's part of her job, having at least one thing to talk about at dinner every day.

And at dinnertime they can go get Verita and go to dinner. 

"Hello, how was your day."

"It was fine. We had some new dresses made."

"In a style you like?"

"I think so."

"That's good then."

Nod. 

She eats.

Sigh.

Well. Verita can talk enough about her magical studies and her first trip to the bookstore to make it sound like someone at this table wants to be here.

He can muster some genuine excitement about her getting to go to the bookstore. Did she find what she wanted? Was it nice to get out of the palace, it's horrible isn't it. Does she find her bodyguards very annoying.

It was super nice to get out of the palace! Her bodyguards are not really extra annoying on top of the annoyingness of having bodyguards in the first place. She wasn't really looking for anything specific but she did find some cool stuff. She can tell him about the cool stuff. Like, there's one book about various phenomena that have been documented in the mana wastes, and one about the differences between different enchantment spells and the principles they tend to work based on, and another one about how the mammoth lord clans live. She thought Korva might like that one. 

It sounds like the sort of book Korva would like. And she's doing well with her lessons?

Yeah, she thinks so. Making good progress on most stuff.

He doesn't particularly care if she's good at school but it does actually help with magic, knowing lots of things and paying attention to them. Even things you wouldn't expect to matter, like, he has actually run into complex mathematical puzzles in dungeons. He can give examples.