Kelly is also thinking! It really seems like this woman is, maybe not literally from outer space but definitely from somewhere that's never heard the gospel, and she's doesn't seem like a bad person but she sure does think it's okay to pray to multiple gods, AKA she worships demons. So far Kelly has been focusing on getting her to accept God's grace and be born again, but at some point she needs to get into the "you need to stop worshipping demons" bit even though it's going to be so awkward. Especially if the demons have really been lending her the power to heal people! If demons offered Kelly the power to heal people she would be so tempted and have to pray really hard for the strength to cast them out. But anything demons try to sell you always comes at too high a price, and she needs to make sure this poor girl knows that.

Once they have their food and the other woman has sat down in a booth with them, she asks "When did this happen? How can you be sure it works? People who die on my planet can go to any afterlife, and if there was a way to make sure everyone went to the good ones that would be the best and most important thing ever."

"Nobody can go to heaven just by being good enough because nobody is perfect. We all need God's help but he's willing to help all of us."

That's . . . arguably technically correct for values of help that involve giving people a fair trial and not letting daemons eat their souls before they get there? And Irori technically doesn't count as an exception because He's in Axis. Possibly there's some stuff getting lost in translation here, analogously to how Taldane uses a word originally borrowed from the Celestial for "the upper planes" to mean "the upper planes and Axis" when discussing places it's pleasant to be dead in, but Marian is clearly doing her best and Samora shouldn't pester her about it, she should check her understanding with Kelly directly.

"Jesus helps the good people go to Heaven and sends the bad people to Hell?"

"No, Jesus wants everyone to go to heaven! But you have to accept His love and repent of your sins to get there."

"I think that's Sarenrae? I definitely pray to Sarenrae and appreciate Her work."

"Oh dear, is this a Holy Trinity thing? I don't understand that stuff. I just know that Jesus loves me and I should love my neighbor and I'll go to Heaven when I die."

The "holy Trinity" bit gets translated to Samora as "question about which gods are different aspects of the same god". Samora has never heard of anyone claiming that Sarenrae and Pharasma are aspects of the same god, but it's not an unreasonable type of question to ask, plenty of people have asked it about Abadar and that one god in Tian Xia, what's His name, the one people think might be the other aspect of Abadar. K-something. Anyway, maybe on a planet where the gods mostly don't intervene people end up with less information about them in a way that results in thinking Sarenrae is an aspect of Pharasma. Who was temporarily dead. The entire rest of that statement was spot on, though.

"Yeah! So long as you follow the Good gods and do right by other people you've got nothing to worry about."

"That's right!" Kelly is so relieved and feels a bit silly. She thought Samora was worshipping demons but actually she's from another planet where they have a different word for God and believe odd things about the Trinity, which is fine. She's pretty sure Catholics believe very odd things about the Trinity and Catholics are probably saved. So that's fine. But she still has one concern: "But where does dungeons and dragons come into it?"

"Honestly I have no idea. My planet has magic and apparently this planet has a book about a similar kind of magic? I haven't read it and I don't know if it's accurate."

"And--I'm sorry, but are you sure your magic comes from God and not from demons?"

Samora looks Kelly directly in the eye and says, "I am absolutely certain my magic does not come from demons. I would never use magic from demons."

"Oh good. You two enjoy your lunch now!" Kelly gets up from the table and heads off to wherever she had been going. The people at the next table over stop pretending they're not eavesdropping and start actually not eavesdropping.

That seemed like it was actually productive and not a disaster somehow?? Samora is pretty good at this. Marian cannot really take any credit but at least she didn't fuck it up terribly!

She smiles at Samora and then, freed from the need to talk for translation purposes, focuses on shoving food into her face as fast as she can. (She bought several huge energy drinks in addition to the coffee, on the thought that they're a little easier to chug incredibly fast while hiding in the bathroom for three minutes.) 

Once they're both done eating the messy and less transportable mains, she'll put the tray away and they can hurry back with the various desserts in a bag; she grabbed extras for Shavri. 

"...If you have questions about that conversation I can try to answer?" she offers, while kind of desperately hoping that Samora won't take her up on it just yet.