"Maybe they are different gods than what I'm used to. You guys don't seem to have little local gods, not like we have at home."

He tilts his head, listening thoughtfully. "My particular religion is overwhelmingly concerned with what we do in this world, not the next. There's one branch of thought that says there is none, and it's only what we do in this world that matters. I tend to stay within that one, really." He grimaces a bit, turning his mug around and around. "My kind - we don't really get an afterlife, anyway."