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. 

"I have questions but I think not the kind you can answer. Except--is there something I could be doing differently to make people less worried that I might be serving a demon lord or something? If they're just going to be nervous about anyone with magic then fair enough, but if I'm doing something specifically concerning I might be able to stop."

“…That‘s a really good question but I’m - not sure how much it’s about exactly what you did?” Marian says carefully. “I’m not even sure how that lady knew about you, but if it was - rumors - then it might have ended up wrong in a bunch of ways? …I guess if you’d described it as ‘miracles of healing’ and not ‘spells’ that might avoid it - sounding like a bad thing to Christians?  They have a framework for miracles coming from God and not for magic spells coming from God. But I don’t think you should - lie or be misleading or cover things up just to make people here more comfortable? And it might not matter how you describe it, if most of the people getting uncomfortable about it heard through rumors.”

She badges them back into the unit. 

"I definitely don't want to lie! I think I would know better whether to call them miracles or spells if I spoke English. If it isn't important then just call them whatever you think makes the most sense."

"...I think 'spell' is more accurate but we don't exactly have a specific word that means 'cleric spell'? - except from the game that exists in our world for some reason and that your world sounds a lot like. Which some subset of people from that religion think is specifically evil and involves getting magic from demons? I don't think most people would think that, most people would just think it's - not real - I don't know, a lot of people will think a lot of different things and I don't think there's anything you could do that would make all of them happy?" Shrug. "I think in your position I would just - not worry about it - but that might just be tempting because I'm tired and I don't want to have to worry about another thing." 

Aaaaaaand it's time to. Grit her teeth and go back into the iso room. ...Maybe after a bathroom trip, that seems wise. 

Samora still wants to learn how people here view the gods and make all the information she has available for people who want it, but it's less urgent than healing Leareth and talking to him and she should wait on a better language solution. She uses the weird fancy earth bathroom and puts her iso gear back on.

....Wow Shavri does not look great. 

Marian taps her on the shoulder. "Hey. I got you some food. ...Uh, and you should maybe take a longer break? You haven't really had any breaks all day, right?" 

Shavri blinks at Marian. ...Her eyes feel gritty and achy and the room blurs a little. She's been so focused on Healing-Sight that she hadn't noticed. 

:I'm the only one who can talk to him: she points out. :I need to be here.: 

...Yeahhhhh that part is, in fact, pretty awkward. But Shavri looks terrible. Not just like a resident who's been on call for 24 hours and can barely think straight, she looks like she might literally collapse on the floor at some point. 

"Sure, but we can't just have plan A be that you're on duty for 36 hours straight! And now isn't the worst time to take a break, I don't think? We're going to start weaning the sedation but we'll go gradually, we're aiming for him being rousable but comfortable. I think that means now is the best time to go out and eat something and lie down for a bit." 

Bleary uncertain Shavri. :What if he starts deteriorating and no one here can see it in time?: 

"We're monitoring him! If he starts getting unstable we can't diagnose what's wrong as fast as you, but I think we can manage to notice if he's deteriorating and get you!" 

...Marian looks to Samora for help. (She's been speaking Celestial, since Samora is the only one who isn't currently way too absorbed in a task to engage in the conversation.) Can Samora perhaps add any arguments for why Shavri really should not make 'stay here and on duty for healing and telepathy all night and then all day tomorrow' her default plan???

"What if we keep him sedated a while longer and I hang out here casting Stabilize every six seconds while Shavri is asleep? That way if he deteriorates we should at least have time for me to yell for someone to wake Shavri up. You can teach me the English for "Help" or "Alarm" or something."