Jade Fern Grove Sitting flat on your bum doesn't buy any bread.

Esma still was not comfortable with the idea of an omnipotent being running the world and knowing everyone and everything. At least Atka and Sos gave her privacy, when it came to her own thoughts. They compared to this spirit were less invested in controlling, what their flock was doing. She was disappointed to see John leave, because she still had so many questions to ask. For example, who had created the god then... what had come before him? But then she also had no idea, where Atka and Sos had come from and she decided to ask Ash Paw as soon as the opportunity would arise. Surely, she would know. 

"Goodbye," she told the man and watched him go, regretting that they had not had more time to talk, but it had not occurred to her that she might ask to meet him again to continue their discussions. On the way back to the Riverclan, she went through everything she had learned today and concluded that no matter, how likeable John had been and how highly he had spoken about his father, he had not managed to sell his religion to Esma. He had left her with more questions than answers and the realization that not only the world was much bigger place outside Riverclan's borders, but also the spiritual plane had many more inhabitants than just two hungry bears.