"I guess it can't hurt to try that."

"Lady Shelyn, this man here is working on how to love his family better and he needs Your help to look Your way instead of toward his anger in those awful moments. Please stand ready to help him step back and find calm and love and resolve instead of fury, and help him remember to ask for it."

He swallows.

"Lady Shelyn, I want to stop. Please help me. And please help me decide to ask for Your help."

Laia takes one of his hands in hers and pats it. "And maybe another time - come back and bring your girlfriend? She might have an idea. She might have one already, and be afraid to mention it, and be less afraid here."

He nods. "I can ask her if she wants to come."

"I'd love to meet her. I want you to be able to love her better, and the kids too, though if they're that young probably they will have more fun drawing than brainstorming."

Nod. "We've got three. The oldest is six."

"The six year old might have an idea! We'll see when you bring them by."

He nods again. "Maybe."

"I'll be expecting you. This is a hard problem and I think it will be easier if you're active here, all of you."

Hopefully she really means that and she won't just kick him out the first time it happens again.

"I'll see you in a few days, then?"

"If that's the best time for you! It could also be tomorrow!"

"I'll see what she says."

"Shelyn's blessings on you. And good luck on top of that."

"Thank you."

And he leaves.

She's gonna real quick pray some more about that because she can imagine layers of complexity that could show up when he comes back with the girlfriend that would be REALLY tricky.

Right then. Enter Ready For More Spiritual Counseling Laia.

The next person to arrive for spiritual counseling is a tired-looking woman in her mid-thirties.

"Hello there. What's on your mind?"

She fidgets with her hands. "So I keep hearing that if we just do enough Good that it balances out all the Evil we did, we'll make Axis. But it seems like a lot of Good things... would kind of suck to do? Are there Good things that don't suck?"

"...hm, I don't find them sucky but you and I are different people! Which Good things are you thinking of and what about them sucks?"

"Well, it's Good to donate money to the Church of Iomedae but then I have less money. And it's Good to care for sick people, but then I might get sick, and also it's annoying to spend time around sick people. And it's Good to fight demons at the Worldwound now that Asmodeus isn't in charge anymore, but I don't want to fight demons. ...Or know how to fight demons. And apparently one of the Sowers gave a big speech about how it's Good to go adopt orphans, but I don't want to have to deal with a kid."

"Sounds like you've got a lot going on that you'd have to interrupt to do any of those things, what is it you mostly do?"

"Mostly I make candles."

"Ooh, I love candles. Do you love them or is it just a living?"