"The universe just lets them because they're gods. More or less. I think many of them, maybe all, were extremely powerful people first, and learned the normal way."

"Oh."

"You should not plan on becoming a god, you'll get eaten by a toadstool or a creeping lichen or melted by acidic bird poo or something really undignified like that."

"...toadstools and lichens don't eat people."

"Do too."

"Nuh-uh. Neither do rocks!"

"The rocks around here are really tame but rocks absolutely eat people and counting on the rocks continuing to not eat people is a bad idea."

"They do not! Stop making things up."

"I'm not making things up. I know people who have died that way."

Segda makes a strange high whooping noise.

"What's that one mean?"

"Uh, I guess it doesn't really work, not in a town."

"....hmm?"

"It's like this person is being weird come be more people at them."

"...so they'll stop being weird?"

"Yeah."

"That doesn't work on humans."

"There's nobody around. I didn't decide to do it exactly."

"Why does having lots of people around make you less weird? When you're around lots of humans who think you shouldn't steal you still steal."

"They can't even talk right."

"I can talk right."

"Yeah."

"So if I taught someone else to talk right, then we could convince you not to steal things?"

"No, I do what I want." It eats a fish.

Sigh. "Let's get some more of those for the road."