"How was school, honey?"
She tries to make the kids' favorite meals on their first day of school, but when she asked Iomedae's favorite meal the girl first stared at her blankly and then after some extended clarifications proposed that they could roast a pig, and she can't actually roast a pig, so dinner is pork chops, and potatoes, and salad from the farmer's market. Iomedae is not a picky eater.
(The girl is in fact clinically obese. The doctor suggested they talk with her about cutting back on junk food, but the social worker said that was a bad idea, with a kid new to care - don't restrict her food access at all, just get her more exercise. So Jenny signed her up for swim lessons at the YMCA and for track and field at school. Iomedae balked at the swimming lessons on the grounds that swimsuits were immodest, and they do actually make hijabi wetsuit things but apparently not in her size. Hopefully track and field she'll actually enjoy.)
"Some demons talk. Some can talk but don't. Some can't talk. Some talk but it doesn't mean things, it just sounds like words."
Rembrandt has shot plenty of demons with arrows. He doesn't feel particularly bad about it, but he supposes he feels bad about the fact that he doesn't feel bad. He's got a wiki to frantically skim, though, so no time for that; he's trying to navigate quickly to the pages on Pathfinder fiends.
"Then maybe some is people. You kill - the you and me kind people - too, when needed?"
"If they are going to kill lots of people, and I can't stop them without killing them, I would kill a person like you or me. If a person was not trying to hurt anyone, I would not kill them, even if my king commanded me. I have not killed anyone."
The page on fiends isn't helpful. As far as he can tell from rapidly flicking through the wiki, they are just... tagged with an evil tag and always evil?
Oh!
"I have a magic thing that would kill people, if I was not good. I don't want it to kill people. So it has a rule about never giving up or missing my mark, and I have a rule about not killing people, and we both follow the rules and we get along okay. Is that evil?"
"...I don't know. Holy warriors supposed not have warrior-friends who not holy warriors and I think I see why now. Sometimes maybe kill more people than you choosed. But - if you no killed anyone, not evil just to have a warrior-friend who too ready kill people." She knows this very confidently because she hasn't fallen yet. "...warrior-friend maybe evil."
"Does that answer why I use lots of evil magic? I have lots of friends who aren't holy warriors, and I need all my things and all my friends to fight demons. Would your detecting power say that I'm evil?"
"I don't know. Maybe. Or maybe should not be running a magic conspiracy and doing that evil. I - don't know. I don't know lot of things.
I want to go far away, read more, learn this, come back when I know more." Did Raoulin have time to ensure they were all coordinated on the same account of why they can't let her do that?
"I think the police will find you if you do that, and they will hurt Haley and hurt your foster parents and maybe if they find out the wrong things then we might have to hurt some of them. But you could do that if it was very very important. Why is it so important?"
"- if I trust you and is wrong, I die. And holy warriors will die, everyone know that, but - I think there not other holy warriors of Aroden here. So it is important I not die very fast of being very stupid."
"I don't think you die, even if we were really evil. If there's only one holy warrior in the whole world, wouldn't we all want to work with you and learn what you can do? I don't think anyone except you can detect what magic kills people, so if I was evil, I'd want to be your friend."
"I no can use it serve evil. Maybe if you evil you try that, God take it from me, then you kill me. Still bad I think."
"Yeah. That would be bad. I don't really know what to say, then, because I don't really know why you think I would kill you. Sorry."
Rembrandt really really wishes the wiki was more helpful. He's trying to understand how detecting evil even works, but he doesn't know what a move action is or what an aura is or what Pathfinder means by a round. He doesn't even know if Iomedae's version works exactly like how the game says it works, and he doesn't think he is about to volunteer to test being "smited", whatever that is.
"Well, I stealed a car! Pretty good because kill someone! Did not mean to, but car still stealed."
"...no? I think no one hurt. But any police I know about, kill someone who steals a car. Well, where I from not cars horses, but cars cost even more."
"Nobody in Virginia is going to kill a child for stealing cars or horses. Virginia law thinks you are a child. Also I don't work for the police! I'd just tell the police you borrowed the car." She struggled with that word earlier, didn't she? "Uh, like you borrowed my bow."