She laughs again and hugs him.

And they can go back to doing various checks and to everyone in Leareth's facility talking to the small god all the time. 

Belrun asks the god why she loses track of time when she talks to it.

I think it is not talking to me in this way that causes it, but when you ask to see the direct godperceptions, that is something where I perceive time very differently from humans.

:I guess if you're replacing my time sense with yours that makes sense but why wouldn't I have noticed I was getting hungry?:

I think that sometimes humans lose track of time and do not notice they are getting hungry even if they are just absorbed in a very interesting book or something? I am not sure if this is true of you though or just Leareth.

:I don't usually forget to eat! Maybe I'll get used to the god senses with practice:

My sense is that most things get easier with practice, for humans. Pause. For gods too, at least small ones, Leareth wishes me to practice talking to people.

:Who are you talking to besides us?:

The god starts providing a list of all the people it's been talking to, mostly mages who helped with the recent work, also Nayoki, also most of the kitchen staff and the Healers. 

:Making friends?:

Can humans be friends with a god or should there be a different word for that? It seems like a different kind of relationship than what humans have with each other and it would be better not to be confusing. 

:Good question. I think I'd say that humans can be friends with other species - like Companions, as the most near to hand example - but I guess you may be more different than that. I don't especially feel inclined to the sort of conventional worship-oriented relationship I understand to be usual with mortals and gods though:

I think Leareth does not either. What sort of relationship would you want to have with me?

:I'm still feeling it out. But more like a friendship than like that, at any rate:

I would like to be your friend. Proud happy warmth-recognition-appreciation.

:Oh good.

You have any ideas for a name yet?:

I am not sure. I think I am still trying to understand what the important criteria are for names.

:A lot of them mean things. Different languages have different sounds, of course, I think there are several pronunciations of 'Vkandis' floating around and don't know if it ever meant anything on its own. The Star-Eyed is just named a meaning, I'd translate it to whatever language I was speaking. Shadowgod is also just named a meaning, after Their avatar the Shadow-Lover, which I'm not sure how it came to be called that originally. I'm not sure about Astera or Kernos or whoever but in practice not being sure means I use the sounds instead of the meanings in translation. The Hardornen gods have meaning-names:

So maybe I can think about meanings that I think are true of me, and you can help me find a name with that meaning?

:Sure. Or you can wait if you think you'll be different enough when you grow up to want a different meaning:

I think I am going to, a pause, sense of shifting-perspective, looking for the most accurate description and translation, change less in nature and shape after this point than I have before? I will be bigger but it will be more of me, not a different kind of thing.

:So now is a perfectly reasonable time to pick a name. Most people get named as babies, but you're not most people:

Curiosity. Does your name mean anything? Leareth said his name means the stars in the sky, but he chose it himself, it was not his name when he was a baby.

:Belrun means 'flower', it's not an especially interesting choice. And my last name Sujana means 'swan':