He will collect a second, and head out. 

To a chorus of ‘goddess be with you’ from everyone in the building.

"And with you as well," says Elorri. They're trying! They are somehow getting weird esoterica right and not getting 'return stolen goods' right but they are trying!!

Walking and talking. “For my understanding, what’s the law behind returning the coin? Church would do more good with it than an evil noble, but sounds like there’s law reasons that I haven’t gotten yet, make it more complicated.”

"The church would do more good with it than almost anyone in the world, and also we aren't thieves, we must not stand to benefit from theft, we must conduct ourselves in civilized places as safe for law abiding people to interact with and that means not stealing from them."

"It's not like you ordered anyone to steal anything, and the people who did weren't ordered to and were punished after. I've been really trying to make sure people know we don't speak for you. But, even if we don't represent you... You don't want the church to be a fence. Is that it?"

"We definitely do not want the church to be a fence, but also the - incentives are wrong, the effect it has on our ability to operate honestly is wrong, everything about it is corrosive. If this man who had his house robbed learned exactly what became of his money of course he'd demand it back, wouldn't he? And we wouldn't have any grounds to deny him, because we wouldn't have stolen it in the first place - so then we're in a position where we're richer if it's kept secret, and we are not the kind of organization that should be richer with secrets."

"I'll need a bit of time to think on that one. I was never too good at understanding the incentives and hypotheticals sort of things. Not doing something that someone wouldn't want you to have done if you hadn't done something else, that sort of thing. I think I understand the thing where Iomedae doesn't betray you if you're praying to her, and she made that deal with Aroden, but it took me a bit of time to think on that part, too."

"I want to reiterate that I do think you've done an incredibly impressive job of all this. It is possibly the single most encouraging facet of Cheliax I have seen in the last year and a half."

"Glad to hear it, and sorry about the rest of Cheliax. I've spent a long time wondering what Iomedae and the people she really Selected would think of us and what we're trying, most of us have. I know she's not the type to throw anyone into the fire for obeying her wrong, but really that makes disappointing her worse."

"I think that, regularized and caught up to the state of theology as it's been developed since the Acts were written, you'll do tremendous Good in the world."

"Thank you, and I do hope so."

"Hadn't realized they were still developing new theology. What's the biggest new thing since then, that people should know."

"I'm not sure I could point to a single biggest new thing, just refinements in how Her principles are implemented and communicated." Which now that he thinks of it is a little embarrassing. "And changes in emphasis, since the Age of Glory didn't happen and the church of Aroden is defunct."

"Makes sense. Iomedae looked at theology from the god and the mortal sides, hard to find anything big she didn't already see."

"Right, the age of glory. Those parts are always sad, reading them now. Whenever they say something is wrong but a temporary ill, that will soon be gone, when the age of glory comes." 

"Yes. The Iomedaean church bears some hallmarks of having been originally a complement to the Arodenite one and now it's trying to do more in a world that has more damage, not less. Though recent events are encouraging in some ways even if they represent short term resource limitations."

"The recent events meaning the archmages? They're powerful and I'm glad they took Cheliax back, but they're no Aroden. Is it true that Asmodeus is the one who killed him?"

"We're not sure. The archmages' closure of the Worldwound closure in particular comes to my mind as healing a nigh-literal wound Aroden's death left."

"Worldwound, that is a big one. That and taking the country from hell, maybe I should stop complaining about them putting their Galtan project in Westcrown. Not the worst thing an archmage can put in a city."

"It could be worse." It's pretty bad, but it could be worse.

"Could be."

"What's doing assizes like? It's not the same as patrolling a territory, but I still might be able to adopt whatever techniques you use for keeping order the Iomedaean way."

"...it might be too disanalogous to take many lessons from. There is so little ability to do any followup. I suppose if you're acting in an unofficial capacity, you might even while stationary have some loosely comparable limitations on what sentencing you can do, but... are people bringing you any complaints, or do you mostly just have patrols responding to things as they emerge?"

“Mostly we patrol and respond to things, but sometimes people bring problems to us. Which is always complicated. We can fight evil but don’t really have the resources to look into disputes and resolve them. But if it’s obvious, we can throw the wrongdoer out of the neighborhood.”

"What kinds of obvious situations have you seen?"