Going to the Caverns and We're Gonna Get Married?

"Yes," said Astra, meeting the Ghost with her fiercest stare. "But... when I broke free of whatever was trying to influence me, its magic backfired and I... I knew him. I knew him as I had never known anyone before, including myself. And I knew that I love him."

"As I know that I love her," said Lord Fred. "So get us married right now, or I'll chop your head off!"

"You can't chop my head off," said the Ghost. "I'm a noncorporeal being. Now as I was about to say, secondly, do you even know who I am?"

"You're the only other being we've seen in these godforsaken caves," said Fred.

"There's not exactly an abundance of clerics down here," added Astra.

"I am Skhgzzzshnrghk of the Howling Void, the Defiler of Worlds! I am not the sort of person most humans would want to bless their marriages."

"Well beggars can't exactly be choosers," said Astra. "So can you get on with it?"

The Ghost made a strange guttural noise that Fred and Astra eventually realized was a sigh. "I was hoping you would use your wish on something useful for fighting the Dragon. He was the one trying to brainwash you, by the way. He made a pact with my old enemy, the King of Shades, and I wanted to find some humans who could kill him. That's the problem with getting humans to do your dirty work

1. "But if you insist. By the power invested in my by the Many-Angled Ones, I pronounce you man and wife."
2. "So I'll turn you into something else."

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