Desnia also leaves services heading the same way, carrying Pere. She’ll drop him off along the way. 

She recognizes the other religious delegate, though she doesn’t remember her name. A Calistrian, she thinks? 

She rushes a bit to catch up. 

“Good morning! I recognize you from the convention. I think we’re headed the same way, though I need to swing by the park before going in. How did you find morning services?”

She's wearing a handmade holy symbol of Calistria, it's definitely the obvious guess.

"They were fine, I guess. Lots of singing. What did you think?"

"They were nice? I liked the singing but not enough to want to come listen to it again tomorrow." 

"I'm not sure that I care as much about places being nice to look at as the Songbirds do - though I appreciate that this temple looks least like an Asmodean one out of the ones I've seen in this city." 

"I think I like some of the other types of art they help people with better than the singing, and I bet most of them are harder to do at a service like this. Singing is okay but this was kind of a lot of it."

“What are the types of art you like better than singing? Have you been spending a lot of time at Shelyn’s temple? I’ve spent spare channels there before but it was my first service.” 

"Painting is fun, and I've been seeing if I can pick up drawing, although I wouldn't say I'm any good at it. And a couple weeks ago I went to see a street-play, that was nice, I don't think I'd like acting but it was fun to watch."

She holds up her new holy symbol, carved from wood and freshly painted. 

"One of the Songbirds helped make this, he had some good tips for getting the balance right." Her old one always hung a little crooked. She hasn't really gotten used to the way the new one feels.

"Oh, I like whittling, and it probably makes sense to have a more open holy symbol." 

She flashes her bracelet from underneath her sleeve, on which a small butterfly dangles. 

"Can I just go at any time or do they have specific times that they help people with crafts?" 

"Sometimes they run group activities, but if there's nothing scheduled I think you can usually find a Songbird to help you out. Or, like, not any time, they do sleep, but if you went after the convention you could probably find someone to help you."

She nods, walks in silence for a minute still carrying Pere. Tries to remember what the Calistrian had said on the floor so that she can make conversation about it. She vaguely remembers approving of the things said, but no specifics are coming to mind. She was friends with Valia? 

Oh, she can do introductions, that’s a thing she can say and maybe she’ll eventually be able to keep all the names straight. 

“I don’t think I’ve introduced myself - I’m Voyager Desnia. I remember that you spoke a few times, but I’m afraid I don’t remember the details and I don’t recall your name - I wasn’t able to figure out childcare I trusted the first few days, so some of the things so went by in a blur. I’m looking forward to being able to participate more today.”

Pere gurgles happily from his mothers arms. He liked the pastries and the singing. 

"I'm Victòria! I've spoken about... uh, lots of different things, I guess. What're you hoping to get done at the convention?"

She spends a moment trying to spin up a more polished version, and then decides that clerics of Calistria are probably not the type of person she needs to sound more put together to. Possibly this cleric is evil because Calistria doesn't rule it out and because Cheliax. But that's a different sort of problem then the one where she doesn't order her words nicely enough. 

She shrugs. 

"I want Cheliax to be... less Asmodean. I think I expected people to be better faster, when Hell's rule was overthrown. And - I'm not sure what things get things going well, because things that sound good and seem like they should be good like Valia's speech end up with hundreds of innocent people dying and more people becoming murderers than before." 

Another shrug. 

"I want to tell people to please do Good things and not Evil things, whether or not whatever laws or rules or orders there are point at Good, but people are worse than I would have thought at telling which is which and I don't think I'm particularly good at telling them how to tell them apart?" 

That maybe was sharing too much? Or not answering the right question?

"Probably I'm going to join the Trade and Travel committee and push for something better with the internal passports and whatever else they're doing there. How about yourself?" 

"I don't want anyone to be able to just hurt innocent people for no good reason, just because the people they're hurting are weaker or less powerful. When powerful people try to hurt people anyway, I want them to get what they deserve, I don't want them to just be able to get away with it because they're nobles, or priests, or powerful wizards, or people who work for the Crown, or anything. I want all the leftover Evil nobles, and people like that, to be replaced with — adventurers, or something, decent people who can still fight monsters like the nobles are supposed to but who haven't done a bunch of awful things to the people they rule." Actually she wants the leftover Evil nobles dead, along with all the leftover Asmodean priests, but she doesn't think the archmage will let the convention overrule the amnesty, he wouldn't even let them kick out the actual priests of Hell.

"...and the Convention is talking about lots of things, and it turns out that I have opinions on those things too, but that's why I came here. Getting rid of the passports would be good, there's not really a good way to stop nobles from hurting innocent people if the people they're hurting aren't even allowed to leave and tell the Queen."