"I can certainly hope so."  Little smile.

He does not have very much to say, after all that, and they can ride a while in silence unless Khalida does.

"Even were it to be an Evil act, I can't suppose it should count for anything against months or years of- acting as a paladin does?  But I know that's no comfort while one yet lives."  (Fuuuuuck she has made everything awkward.)

Oh no, he made her worried!  He did not mean to do that.  "No no, of course it wouldn't! I didn't mean I'd really be worried about my prospects of Heaven, you're just... not supposed to say that, you know?" Conspiratorially amused look.  He was being a bit pensive about the whole thing, but not so much that he'll let her keep looking unhappy.

"Surely paladins have the most certainty of anyone?  If modesty must stretch even so far-"  she has indeed been distracted from the prospect of Stupid Alignment Rules, "I suppose each place has a new set of, um, ...secret imaginary rules, which one must learn?  In Sothis one hears 'when we meet in Axis', and sometimes only 'fate willing', not always."  Well, in the parts of Sothis she grew up in, not nearly so often in the kinds of places she's been living recently. 

It's really charmingly Nethysian, how easily distractable she is by any new information.

"Huh!  That is not the custom in Taldor, but Taldans are... somewhat overly complicated, as a people.  For all I know your way is better.  I do hear it said that way in the forts sometimes, now that I think about it, so perhaps I should try it too...  Though sometimes I worry, about the people saying it, that they might be wrongly convincing themselves they'll go to Heaven, and that more doubt would do them good."