"Huh. That's - it's interesting that it could work that way."

"I'm not even sure it would work that way, I'd do it loosely first and you could see how you liked it and I'd stick it on if it was suitable."

Nod.

"Are you going to be in deep shit with whoever you normally - live with - if you go back without your curse doing its thing?"

"I think she'll be glad. I can't exactly get a job or run errands this way."

"Oh, that's good, if you wanted it off no matter what I'd still do it but I'll feel better about it if you're not going to be in trouble. Hmm." She flips through a back chapter in the book. "It'd obviously be a lot better to just find the ending condition if it has one but I have no special ability to do that."

"I don’t know of one either. If you make it impossible for me to interpret things as orders you should probably clear all my existing commands first."

"Yeah. Uh, disregard all standing orders?"

"...Am I a normal amount of sinful?"

Valerie suddenly does understand wanting privacy in her thoughts, now that they are, actually, her thoughts and not the thoughts someone else put in her head. It doesn't matter and it's too late now. She should probably do something about being a horrifically sinful person instead of just wanting no one to notice. God will notice.

She is not supposed to want to be a man. She is not supposed to be angry at God. She is not supposed to want to engage in sexual immorality. She - doesn't even know if she loves Jesus without being ordered to.

Maybe it was a good gift after all. She couldn't possibly deserve to go to Hell because she couldn't actually sin because she didn't actually have free will until this very moment, and now she does, and now - she should ask if it's possible to make her stop being a sinful person some more convenient way, but actually that feels awful to contemplate.

"Uh, I don't know what gods are operative on your plane or how they tend to judge that sort of thing. - I'm gonna stop reading your mind for now, we can talk out loud."

Nod.

"Should I have waited for more of a signal, or - gone more piecemeal -"

Headshake.

"I think the problem is that I'm a bad person."

"I'm really not qualified to comment on your religious situation but I'm pretty irreligious and pinged Neutral Good last time I checked."

"...I guess I should share the good news of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ."

"I'd rather you didn't, that's not even one I need to be conversant with to not stick my foot in my mouth back home. My point is just that you don't have to be religious to be Good."

"...Uh. I guess it’s possible I've been lied to but I've heard that serving God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength is the most important thing and without him everyone is evil but I don’t know what you mean about being able to check."

"There's spells, to determine what alignment you are, I volunteered to be practiced on in freshman year and some novice from the divinity school cast it and looked at me and told me, Neutral Good. I mean, I guess he could have been lying, I don't even know his name let alone his reputation. It's probably also possible he did the spell wrong, though I think the practice was more about learning to interpret auras quickly than about learning to see them at all."

"...I think I know even less than I thought I did."

"We're from different planes, we're not going to recognize all the stuff from each other's. Including the religions."

"I didn’t know there were different planes."

"Weird! I guess it might not be obvious if you have less or different magic. Do fairies just sort of hang out in the same kind of reality as everybody else?"

"I don't actually know. I've spent almost my entire life in one house and mostly one room and I've never been to school and I'm starting to think I might have been lied to."