Noah nodded at her statement. There were a few things she had said in the past that were misrepresentations of Zulrav, the wary warning glance he had given her earlier was the first action he made in an attempt to correct her. He didn’t necessarily share her viewpoint or agree with what she thought pertaining to people perhaps using love and care in their lives. Unlike her, he didn’t think all people deserved it. At times he didn’t think himself deserving of her nearly overwhelming amounts of love and care for him, especially in times when he faulted himself for wrongdoings. She brought up the bear and he looked away from her.

“It all,” he answered. “Purity and faithfulness, they have no place out here,” he gestured to the woods. “They’re for people, for you and the Benshira, the Syliran Knights, humans. It doesn’t make sense out here.” Noah shrugged, looking at her again. “It’s not a bad thing, I am glad Yahal makes you happy and is there for your people, for other people, I just don’t... care for him or his domain.”

Yahal was seemingly all influencing, using things and people for the benefit of those who followed him while those he used were apparently none the wiser, like Noah. The Kelvic did not feel as if Zulrav used him for anything; there were no overarching commands, nothing pressuring the Kelvic to follow some divine message. Zulrav asked for loyalty and respect, showing the same to those who followed him, who were much much fewer than those who followed Yahal.

It wasn’t ‘their’ life Yahal was invading, but Noah’s. Clearly Yahal wasn’t seen as an invasion into Elann’s life, she had been raised on the Penita scrolls in the desert, apparently worshipping Yahal as if he was the sun itself. Noah was born and raised into no such thing, the gods weren’t imperative to his family’s life, they weren’t needed to survive because the Kelvics were equipped with everything needed to make their own way. Noah’s devoutness to Zulrav wasn’t needed either, it was a choice he made because he spent a great deal of time in the god’s domain, he learned to appreciate the territory he once trespassed on.