[Listlessly he stared at that offered hand, the aid felt so enticing and yet so tempting it was likened to the oblation of the Original Traducer. Bloodied fingertips had outstretched, nearly touching Abel's palm, before they recoiled and lightly brushed the hand away.]
Paroxysm.
[The director ushered succinctly, as if it were no matter. Rising from his seat, he posed every amount of grace he had trained into himself from prepubescence into his motion and majestic walk just past the tall priest.]
I was unaware it was orthodox.. even.. ethical to place such a burden on such small shoulders.
[Touching the threshold, he thought how absurd, even dangerous it could be to put such power in such tiny hands. A susceptible being like that would surely have the Basilica crumbling from the foundation up. He wondered thusly, just how they even ran. Somebody.. someone else must have been pulling the strings. Much like himself as His Holiness's own willing marionette who had cut his strings and fell into damnation as retribution.]
Apropos, I pray Your Holiness will have suitable protection.
[Solemn in saying that. Not a trace of his usual snide cynicism.]
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:49 pm (UTC)Paroxysm.
[The director ushered succinctly, as if it were no matter. Rising from his seat, he posed every amount of grace he had trained into himself from prepubescence into his motion and majestic walk just past the tall priest.]
I was unaware it was orthodox.. even.. ethical to place such a burden on such small shoulders.
[Touching the threshold, he thought how absurd, even dangerous it could be to put such power in such tiny hands. A susceptible being like that would surely have the Basilica crumbling from the foundation up. He wondered thusly, just how they even ran. Somebody.. someone else must have been pulling the strings. Much like himself as His Holiness's own willing marionette who had cut his strings and fell into damnation as retribution.]
Apropos, I pray Your Holiness will have suitable protection.
[Solemn in saying that. Not a trace of his usual snide cynicism.]