"You realize new people ascend all the time, right? And... we hadn't offended them so badly until we did."

"These are ascended deities? That happens sometimes on Golarion too but most deities were never mortal that we know of. Mine was, but it's not standard."

"I've never heard of a deity that definitely didn't start out human. I guess I don't know for sure that all of them did."

"What's the local method of becoming a god?"

"I would like to know that myself."

"Do you know if it - changes them, makes them different than how they were as mortals?"

"I don't know."

This place is so weird. And he's starting to worry (...he is starting to endorse the worry) that he is bothering her with too many questions. He falls silent and walks.

Walk walk walk. It doesn’t take long for them to reach a lightly defended border where Valna explains that they’re on the way to Acarthen and the guards let them through.

"How many days of walking is it?" he asks her.

"Might be more than a day if you’re not used to walking all day. Even if we’re fast we won’t get there with daylight left."

"Oh. I guess it's fortunate I happened to land so close to the border."

"...You didn’t."

"...I didn't?"

"There aren’t any big countries on this continent."

"Oh. Did... there use to be?"

"Not on this continent. Where the Nurezi come from, yes. - That's us."

Nod.

Walk walk. "Let me know if you start thinking you'll need somewhere to rest soon."

"I expect to be able to keep going at least until nightfall."

"Are you... weird and hard to understand where you come from, too, or is it just the culture clash?"

"...I don't know what about that is confusing. Do you not have nightfall on this planet or something?"

"It's not really about that. It's just... something I've picked up from the entire collection of things you've said so far."

"I do not normally have trouble making myself understood in my home culture but I have gotten... more confusing... in the last few months."

"Huh. More confusing how?"