[ Greet a man with a big smile, get called sunny. Cause and effect — so Yuri would claim, though the truth is simply that he's a flippant little creature at heart. So sunny will stand, sir.

The response strikes him as rife with metaphor, but then, Yuri hasn't yet familiarized himself with local beliefs. Yuri suspects it comes back inevitably to one of the two factions as it always does, central as they evidently are to the nature of this realm. After a moment's consideration, he parts his hand, raising one palm up. ]

...If it is a force, then it isn't my goddess at all, is it?

[ A question for which no answer is necessary. Yuri has known and associated with enough clergy to be aware that they often resent being challenged or disagreed with. There are those who were consigned to Abyss' shadowed passages simply for worshipping the wrong deity, and he wonders briefly what they might do to someone of differing belief here. ]

I don't mean to waste your time; it just seemed as fine a place as any to pray.