"No, that's," the anger goes out of her and she sighs. "You were with the Pelorians, right? There was no reason to bring you here if he just thought you were enchanted, they can handle that. He's been worried about you, though, so I'm not surprised he took the excuse. But he meant well, and it's ultimately no harm done."

"He's been worried about me?"

"Mmhmm. Mostly he couldn't put his finger on it, just that a few things about how you talk were off. When he asks what you want he means it, I'm not sure if you realized."

"It's so seldom relevant."

She chuckles. "He disagrees. He may only be a lay follower of Lastai, but he's a pretty devout one, and that's more or less our thing, people getting what they want."

"Well, I'm not one."

"Sure, and if you keep deflecting every time I don't think he's going to push. But - " she goes back to her desk. "Your godess is Good, right, but you haven't had a chance to meet any of her other clerics or learn about her teachings? Have you had an opportunity to learn about what Good is?"

"- I have a copy of the holy book and I have met some of Her paladins in the past but it's true that I have not been to a catechism class due to various competing obligations. But some things are very different on this planet and I am not confident Her conception of the Good will be correctly triangulated by consulting locals."

"I don't mean Hers specifically; I mean the thing we and the Pelorians and the other Good gods and their followers all have in common. It's not hard, in the basics, even though the details get tricky; it's just wanting nice things for people. And it's hard to arrange for nice things for people if you don't know which things are nice for them."

"I've told him I like chess! How many disclosures like that is he expecting me to have up my sleeve?"

"Probably not many on that scale, but I bet he's asked you a dozen times today whether you'd rather do or have this or that; those count too. And if you'd rather not be asked that counts too, but he's not going to assume it easily."

"I usually don't have enough information to know which would be best."

"You can pretty safely assume he's handling most of that for you, he won't offer an option where one of the choices is a bad idea without warning you. A lot of the time there isn't a clearly best choice, though, and it does just come down to what you want."

"...and he will stop doing this if I tell him that I do not want to be consulted about every little thing that will be fine either way?"

"Mmhmm. In that case what I expect he'll do is pick a combination of things that he likes and things that he thinks will be interesting experiences for you, unless you tell him you'd like him to do something different. Which you might want to, I wouldn't want a cleric of Fharlanghn picking all of my meals for the week, I'm not that adventurous." She chuckles.

"I don't mind picking food, I just usually don't know what would be an efficient way to structure the day especially under the constraint that he doesn't seem to like to leave me alone for extended periods."

"He'll ease up on that eventually, right now he's worried that the differences between the worlds are going to cause problems. You can tell him you want some time to yourself and he'll respect it. If you're comfortable with him planning your day without your input I expect he'll be fine with that; he might have some general questions for you first though."

"General questions?"

"I don't know all the  details of what you're up to right now but I imagine there's some kind of logistical considerations that would be tied up in that - I suppose he can ask you those questions without asking the other ones but it's tricky to separate them sometimes, when they're minor enough, and he doesn't especially have any practice at that."

"I'm mostly relying on him to know where it's most efficient to spend my burst-radius healing ability."

She nods. "He might have some questions about that eventually but he seems pretty confident that he knows what you want to do with it. I'm thinking about more minor things - using food again just as an example, whether you want to go to a slightly farther away slightly tastier restaurant or a closer but more boring one when you've been walking all day and your feet hurt isn't just a question of which food you like better, but it might be enough a question of that that you end up at the farther restaurant anyway."

"I usually wouldn't spend more time walking to tastier food but it's not about my feet really."

"That's the kind of thing he'd want to know, yeah. Though I'm not actually sure he'll go along with it as a general principle, it's too... it's meaner than he likes to be but I'm not actually sure that'd be his objection, I'm sure his clerical obligations come into it somehow."

"- meaner?"

"It gets... abusive, eventually, never letting someone have anything good, even if you're not doing anything bad to them. I don't think your situation features quite enough of him letting or not letting you have things for that to come up - if nothing else you can walk away and he can't and won't stop you - but I expect him to flinch at the idea anyway."