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With Cailinn at your side though, it serves as a valuable exchange because not only can you much more directly learn the language (and better), but you can also try and teach her about the matter of her newfound divinity... and learn about yours as well in the process. More than anything it seems the biggest challenge for her, is her own hangups over the issue, and refusal to truly accept that she could bear even just a small spark of the divine. In the weeks together you can help her get used to her new nature, and though she may not come to fully believe it, she does at least become much more in tune with her power and the sea. As you are a demigod of your mother, Cailinn wields the potential almost as if a demigod of you yourself. Of course this is only a pale shadow of you, stemming from that false god, but she proves able to perform minor divine feats which could allow her to act on your behalf or in your stead.
All in all, quite encouraging progress you make, and it leaves you hopeful about the potential of these humans in general. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad making use of them, now that you're getting used to them... the only distressing matter you come to find though, and only about Cailinn, is her growing power. It's not something she seems aware of, but all the swelling in faith among the Gaelans, particularly after your miraculous healing of the dying man... it seems to have all gone to Cailinn, the divine benefit of the people's faith. Her power has practically doubled from it, while you gain nothing. This happening was unexpected but not too surprising, since you can't really gain divine power in that way, but you hadn't anticipated that Cailinn would benefit from it. You're left wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that her divinity was itself artificially created in the false Tanaloa by the people here, so this is merely a continuation of their faith.
Not that you can dwell on the matter for too long though, because your attentions are forced elsewhere.
<span class="mu-b">"-no! Not just a mud hole! I plan to fill it with seawater! Ugh, don't you people have... what the Atlanteans called it... masonry?"</span>
A month or so passed, and your grasp of the language of the region is now adequate to communicate with the local humans. Something which is both helpful, to not have to rely on Cailinn for everything, but also annoying because now you can understand the constant chatter and beseeching of the humans. Leave petty matters of the faith to Cailinn though, your prophetess you suppose you could consider her to be. Your focus now is on building up this village!
