"Goodnight."

And he will take off his armor and drape the gambeson over something so it can dry out a bit overnight and he will sleep in the guest room. Till dawn.

Dawn arrives on its usual schedule. The rest of the house is quiet at this hour.

Up he gets; across the hall to pee he goes; down on his knees beside the guest bed he falls. He sleeps with the holy symbol on. Here is a sitrep, Iomedae, he doesn't know how important the constitutional convention is but if it's important enough to be worth doing anything this is the situation there is to do anything about. Here are his plans absent any outside intervention. He would like two Share Languages and two Comprehend Languages and mostly normal oh-shit spells besides that.

An hour after dawn in the house of someone who regularly spends all night patrolling for vampires, he's gonna have the place to himself for a while yet.

He's going to go have a couple leftover rolls and then if nothing's going on a bit of a nap, yeah.

He is uninterrupted at this!

He may or may not wake up a little later when there's a sound from down the hall - not exactly a yell or a cry, but definitely some kind of distressed exhalation.

Yeah, the nap wasn't that deep. He pokes his head out the door to his room.

Eliza is emerging from her bedroom in black flannel pajamas with pretend-chalkboard math on them, looking sleepy and shaken. She tries to muster a friendly good-morning when she sees Blai, but her heart's not in it.

...will she take his hand?

...after a thoughtful pause, sure.

"Share Language."

...processing...

"I didn't have that prepared yesterday because I was not expecting to have a teleportation accident but today I have two, if your mother would also like one. It lasts twenty-four hours."

"My aunt," she corrects, absently. "We'll see. It might be a better idea to give it to her boyfriend." Having a concrete puzzle in front of her seems to be a steadying influence. "All right, so what is your story?"

"I am a third circle cleric of Iomedae, Lawful Good goddess of victory over evil. I was traveling to attend a 'constitutional convention' that my country's new Queen's party member is holding but encountered the teleportation snake thing en route and arrived not far from where we met."

"Well. I'm the Slayer, which I assume is as confusing yet full of possible implications to you as 'cleric of a Lawful Good goddess' is to me."

"I was just parsing you as 'some kind of martial adventurer' and that... still sounds about right? Which parts of being a cleric of a Lawful Good goddess are confusing, do you not have clerics, not know about alignments, not have any gods..."

"Let's say we definitely don't have clerics or know about alignments, and gods are a more complicated question. As for 'some kind of martial adventurer', I think that implies that... there are... other ones? And around here there aren't. Being as good at killing vampires as I am puts me de facto in charge of defending the world against whatever is trying to end it this year."

"...those were vampires?"

"Yes. At least if your language magic is being reasonable about how I should use words. They're former dead humans who drink blood and catch fire in sunlight. There are a lot of them and it's a problem."

"Are th- you wouldn't know if they were vulnerable to positive energy without clerics, would you, unless you've got a lot of... druids or something..."

"I don't think we have a lot of druids."

"Okay, well. Clerics are a kind of spellcaster. We're particularly important on Golarion for healing, with positive energy, which damages the undead, at least the ones I'm used to, but I did not think vampires looked like that so I will want to test it before I go around channeling energy at all your vampires. Clerics each get our powers from a god, different gods pick different sorts of people but we all cast from Wisdom. Alignment indicates whether someone is Lawful or Chaotic, or neutral, and also Good or Evil, or neutral. I am probably Lawful Neutral but my goddess is Good and clerics show their god's aura so if you looked at me with alignment detecting spells I'd look Lawful Good."

"We don't have alignment detecting spells. I think we don't have, hmm... the level of consistency I'm hearing implied here? My aunt does magic and she invented most of it herself and it's rare for inventing it yourself to go as well as it did for her but normal for any spellcaster who does a lot of magic to be making half of it up. If we did have alignment detecting spells, I'd expect different ones to give different results about the same people a lot of the time." She glances down the hall to the bathroom. "...we should continue this conversation downstairs once I'm done waking up. Excuse me."