That is what the babygod is for! It's really pleased that Belrun put it into such nice words, it's not very good at words yet. 

:I think you're designed to be better at them later:

Hopeful acknowledgement. 

:Can you talk to any other gods yet or is that later?:

:Later: A hint of disappointment, and also - nervousness, maybe? 

:Yeah, I'd be nervous too. Shadowgod thinks you'll be okay:

Relief, hope, gratitude. 

:I am just about done: Leareth alerts Belrun. :I think that talking to it too much longer at a stretch risks giving us a headache. It is trying very hard to be gentle but it is still both very powerful - compared to a human mage, that is - and a baby: 

:Okay. I'll talk to you later: she tells the baby god.

Happy baby god. It offers her the conceptual equivalent of a wave goodbye. 

"It's so cute," she tells Leareth when he's disengaged.

"It really is! I look forward to more unpressured conversation tomorrow, when I do not need to be questioning it on its goals and motives. I am anthropomorphizing a little here, it does not really have a humanlike emotional architecture, but I kept imagining it had to feel very put on the spot, especially since its concept-translation is still underdeveloped." 

"Its weird nonhuman emotions are also cute!"

Leareth beams and pulls Belrun into his arms. "You approve of my god design, then?" 

"Yeah! Not just because it's cute. It's - helpful, it's trying. Shadowgod never seems like it's trying even when it seems likely that really it is."

"I think so too. It does matter for communication, whether we can parse Their emotions, and the Shadowgod is especially alien. A god is inevitably going to be somewhat alien to us, because They perceive such a different angle on the world - this one will likely be a bit more cryptic when it is bigger - but I could narrow the distance as much as possible, and of course there will be an avatar for human-facing communication purposes. A very general one with high limits on attention capacity." 

"I'm so curious what a god-view of things actually is, understood directly as they understand it."

"Unfortunately you might have to become a god to find that out for yourself." 

"Which seems likely to be impairing in the other direction!"

"It is very inconvenient. Maybe eventually you can dredge a good enough explanation out of this god to approximate it." 

"It'd be nice."

"Well, I believe in your abilities. And stubbornness." He kisses her. 

What a good Leareth she has.

Leareth is of the opinion that actually, he's the one who has a very good Belrun. 

The plan for the next couple of days is to take a break, while the baby god has some time to settle in and have lots of conversations to warm up its concept-translation, and while all the spent vats of murdered food poisoning are re-seeded with live microbes and moved into position for the next stage. 

Belrun helps with reseeding the frozen vats so that new microbes can eat their dead counterparts and be available later.