"It's complicated."

Fair enough. He doesn't have to talk about it.

"It might help if you asked specific questions. I'm not allowed to lie, it's only - hard to know where to start."

"Do you want to tell me about it?"

"I don't think so but not to the point where if you did have a specific question I wouldn't answer you."

"It's fine."

More silent walking, then?

Yep.

Eventually, as the sun is setting, Valna suggests they find a place to stay just because it's easy to twist an ankle in the dark.

Blai picks a blade of grass and casts Light on it.

Valna is not normally this happy about people showing off their divine powers.

"Would you like to carry it?" He offers her the grass.

"...Sure."

Now she is holding the cool yet torch-glowing grass.

"Interesting. What else can you make glow?"

"Pretty much any object but only one at a time."

"It doesn't have to be alive?"

"No, I just don't have a lot of convenient loose objects."

"That's... good."

"...has some atrocity that involves making people glow been committed?"

"I don't know. I expect so. Some gods like... playing with people."

"I'm getting that sense, yes. It's not that there aren't wretchedly awful gods on my planet, but..."

"But you also have Iomedae on your planet and she wouldn't do that?"

"It's not just her. There are as many Good gods as evil ones."

"What's that like?"

"- many gods have places where their followers are expressly in charge, including Iomedae, but most places aren't like that and even the ones that are generally have some worship of other gods occurring also. So people will listen to the basic teachings of many popular ones and pray to whoever seems appropriate for the situation or their personal inclinations. And this almost always does nothing, and sometimes helps a little bit, and it would be incredibly weird for anyone to wind up glowing because of it."