Nobody is scary from this angle <3

It might not be good for the mortal to give it another vision right away, unless the Star-Eyed is really specialized at that it can be pretty bad for them to do that too much. (Though sometimes it gets their friends all worried and fussing over them which Shelyn does NOT allow to sway Her to give more visions than She otherwise would but it is cute.)

The Star-Eyed Goddess also does not have much else to convey with a vision, and...it doesn't feel like the right kind of thing. 

She has done some observing of how the Golarion gods will - make Their mortals stronger and give them more magic if they do something very well? That feels like it would be a thing She would like to do, for this particular mortal, but She doesn't know how. 

Shelyn's not sure if Velgarth gods are the right kind of thing to make clerics, but some remarkably disparate entities can figure out how if they set their minds to it so maybe the Star-Eyed can finesse it. Usually you want to have something slightly more in mind than just telling them they did well - if Shelyn just wants to tell someone they did well she has the nearest colorful bird sit where they can get a really good look at it for a minute or just, like, gives them inner peace in their heart, or asks Desna to help her send them a nice dream.

By godtreaty clerics work like THIS and can do THESE things, so you have to make sure your mortal is shiny enough in this way and in that way to get the most out of a cleric circle. If they don't have at least one of those shininesses they might well not even notice it happened. It ties them up for an hour at dawn and here are the rules if they change time zones. They have to be within one step of Your alignment... does the Star-Eyed, uh, have, a clearly defined alignment, She'd need one...

The Star-Eyed wants to do something more...emphatic...than that, and also She wants to give this specific mortal more resources to do things with! Because apparently they might be very good things even when She can't nudge for them specifically let alone give instructions! - and also She wants to give him more resources to just...be okay...with? It is kind of looking like Shelyn doing the thing for Her local mortal is helping a lot with it being okay!

Her mortal is at least somewhat shiny in this way but not very in that other way? Does that mean it won't work at all or only that it would only work for some things? 

...The Star-Eyed Goddess...probably...has an alignment...like, She has not gotten the impression that She is the wrong kind of entity to have one when all of these other kinds of entities apparently do, She is definitely more similar to Golarion gods than the Golarion gods are to mortals and both of them are kinds of entities that have alignments? But She has not yet formed a very clear understanding of what the alignment thing is and so is not sure how to tell either what Her alignment is or what Her mortal's alignment is let alone whether they are similar or what 'within one step' means exactly.

Shelyn clericing people is unusually good on the "those people then being okay" front, some gods get worse results with that. It will still work with only one shininess, and the other clerics will be able to diagnose the reduced efficacy as an insufficient shininess problem and maybe improve the mortal's shininess if that seems like a good idea to them.

Sarenrae might be better at checking everybody else's present alignments than Shelyn, though She's not personally Pharasma. They don't suuuuuper want Pharasma looking at this place. She might confiscate all the dead souls.

The Star-Eyed Goddess does not want that to happen at all!!! She is provisionally okay with trading some of Her souls to gods who will put them in nice places and let Her have them back later if the souls agree to it but having them just stolen does not sound acceptable at all!

She will probably not be as good at making Her clerics okay as Shelyn, then, at least not right away. It seems complicated. But She thinks that She wants to try. 

...Hey Sarenrae! The Star-Eyed Goddess would like an assessment of Her own alignment and of this mortal? She is trying to figure out how to copy the cleric thing with instructions from Shelyn and neither of Them was sure if it would work. 

The Star-Eyed is kind of an alignment mess, like many mortals are but fewer gods. She's passable as Neutral, but if she starts picking clerics and then She shifts later (she's on a good trajectory!) then She'll lose any that are not still within one step of Her. That mortal is........ also a mess but currently Sarenrae reads him as Neutral-on-a-good-trajectory.

The Star-Eyed Goddess will try not to be insulted about the "mess" description. She didn't know what alignment was until very recently! She hasn't been trying to do anything in an alignment-y way. ...Whatever Shelyn's alignment is seems reasonable, as a thing that the Star-Eyed Goddess would want to aim for, Shelyn is by far the Golarion god that makes the most sense to Her. 

Anyway. If She and Her mortal are the same thing right now and going in the same direction then it sounds like it should work now and probably She won't lose him later? That would make him so sad and She does want to avoid that! But She isn't in a hurry to pick other mortals, just this one. 

Shelyn's like Sarenrae, Neutral Good. If that's the only cleric She wants at the moment, then they will probably continue to work out as a cleric/god pair for the foreseeable future.

Okay!

She will go back to Shelyn to learn about how clerics work. Shelyn is easier to communicate with than Sarenrae. 

The Star-Eyed will need some domains, they're this fun hack to get extra spells and to make every cleric feel unique. Shelyn recommends she pick like five of these ones, and as many of their subdomains as she likes. The new cleric should automatically self-assign itself something appropriate from the selection.

That is going to take some consideration! The Star-Eyed would definitely like to cleric this mortal but She isn't in that much of a hurry and She definitely wants to do it right!

Leareth is really not having a good day. 

There's a sense in which this seems so self-evidently predictable that it should already be fully taken into account, but it...somehow keeps catching him by surprise anyway. Every time a noise in the hall startles him and instead of parsing in a fraction of a second that it's not a threat, he slightly panics about it and none of the fast effortless mental motions to instead not do that are available and so he has to calm himself down the slow, stupid way, by focusing on his breathing. His own thoughts occasionally run into something unreasonably upsetting for no reason whatsoever and he's still having a lot of trouble introspecting in real time and so he hasn't even figured out the pattern yet and it's happening over and over. At one point a Healing-trainee brings him lunch and the process of eating food and being completely incompetent at it and needing help to get soup into his mouth continues to be upsetting and stressful the entire time even though this is not new or surprising information at all and certainly contains no new negative update after the first sixty seconds of it. 

Having Vanyel there was significantly better than being alone. (Stef is...worse...than Vanyel, but Leareth is at least not scared of him, more just...finding him an exhausting social presence to manage.) Having Aziza there is more complicatedly better than being alone - she's pleasant and not exhausting and by late afternoon Leareth is pretty used to her, though it's still tiresome to calm himself down from the occasional stupid pointless panicky moment about The Existence Of Shelyn. But eventually someone elsewhere must have concluded, not unreasonably, that the House of Healing in Haven is not all that likely to need an emergency channel and especially not under conditions where they can't afford three minutes for emergency Gate retrieval of a cleric, and a Healing-trainee arrives to collect Songbird Aziza and usher her somewhere else for a Gate.

:Thank you for staying with me: he tells her. It's at least passed the time. Sunset was candlemarks ago and he's probably now made it more than halfway to the next dawn. (He has no idea when to expect his second Restoration out of "today's" spells and for all he knows it was already used for an emergency, so he's trying not to emotionally count on it.) 

"It was my pleasure!" she assures him. And she links elbows with her brother and goes off to the gate she's been summoned to.

Well now there's no one to talk to except Leareth, who's really boring to talk to right now (and also inexplicably said "I would rather not today" when Stef asked if he could recount what it was like dying of being Vkandis'd so Stef could use it in the song). At least with Aziza around he could intersperse random questions about Golarion and noodling around on trying to translate some of her songs into Valdemaran. 

Stef will stick it out for a while but Vanyel is going to owe him for this. 

....This is perhaps exhausting to the point of being worse than being alone. It's not as though he's even very alone, Sera is right there, even if she's more or less only woken up to gulp down food and tea and use the privy and go back to sleep. And he's in the House of Healing, the Healers are going to be checking on him and won't let him die. Which isn't going to happen because physically he's in perfect health, except for his hands not working but that isn't going to get worse, let alone cause him any actually dangerous health problems, Sera reassured him of that. He just has to...wait. For tomorrow. 

Eventually Leareth finds the energy to more-or-less gracefully tell Stef that he's grateful for the company but he thinks he would rather be alone now and he's sure Stef has other business today anyway. 

Yes. Other business. Definitely. Important business. (Dinner is important! So is snuggling Vanyel, who probably has a reaction-headache after doing Web-work all day.) 

Stef heads out. 

It would be really nice if Leareth could just sleep until it's tomorrow but he doesn't think he can. He's mostly been sitting comfortably all day, after getting a lot of powerful healing magic, and he's still not especially physically tired at all. Just mentally, and - emotionally - which he hadn't even known was a thing that could happen to him. 

It feels like it would help to do something physical but he can't think of what he can do safely without managing to injure himself. He could....stretch? He can probably safely get out of bed and stretch without falling and breaking his nose or something incredibly stupid like that. And he can...sing to himself quietly. And maybe after a while of moving his body he'll be tired enough to sleep. 

Brightstar has been helping Jisa with elemental summonings, in one of the Work Rooms, but he's clearly distracted.

"Jisa?" he says eventually, tentatively. "Should I...apologize to Leareth?" 

“Hm?” Can Brightstar not see that she’s busy? “I mean, probably? - don’t ask me for apology advice, I hate apologizing and Mother says I give terrible apologies.”

Brightstar still looks awfully distracted, but he doesn’t bother Jisa with any more questions.

When she sighs and says they’d better call it a day and get some supper before the dining hall closes, Brightstar follows her half of the way and then peels off.

(Jisa is almost too tired and hungry to notice. It doesn’t actually occur to her that Brightstar might be considering apologizing to Leareth now, because why in the world would anyone think that was a good idea.)

Well, once Brightstar thought of it, it became a thing that was going to keep loudly bothering him until he did something! Also he knows where Leareth is right now and who knows where Leareth might be tomorrow, what he if leaves Haven and Brightstar doesn’t have another opportunity!)

He knows his way around the House of Healing. It occurs to him as he’s letting himself in that Shavri might have advice on apologies, but Shavri doesn’t seem to be around right now. No Gemma, either, it’s just a junior Healer reading a book at the center station.

“Is Leareth still here?” he asks her.

She has no idea who this person is. “Mm, that way. End of the hall.”

Brightstar makes it halfway down the hall and it occurs to him to stop, and consider if this is actually a good idea. Maybe he could just write a letter???

He’s terrible at letters, though, and it feels like it would be cheating to ask for advice on this, and - it would be cowardly. Right? And maybe he’s bothering Leareth while he’s trying to rest, but if he does it later then he might be interrupting Leareth in the middle of something important! And he shouldn’t decide not to apologize, when he knows he needs to, because he’s scared to do it! 

Brightstar takes a deep breath, squares his shoulders, and keeps walking. 

At the end of the hall he knocks politely on the door. …Very quietly, in case Leareth is sleeping, he doesn’t think it would be running away out of cowardice if he decides not to wake Leareth up for it.