trenchcoatedly | 008 + LIGHTEN MINE EYES [VIDEO]

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[This angel looks very confused. Also, he has the bedhead of someone whose slept on his side for a week.]

I.....slept?

[ooc: replies may or may not be slow.]

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From:

nolongerhollow

It is...all right. It is simply that I have worked very hard on becoming a vampire who can live relatively harmlessly among humans, and I don't...I do not even know what I would do were I a mortal man for good.

[Now he finally does start to look hopeful.]

Well...separating me from the Hellbeast did not destroy me when the Admiral did it temporarily. And I...remember...

[He looks embarrassed, even a little ashamed.] My love of slaughter is magnified in that form tremendously. Unnaturally.

I'd be willing to take the risk. Between you and that monk I now have enough hope that faith is a possibility again. You should not be apologizing to me, I should be thanking you. And telling you his story, by the way.

From:

trenchcoatedly

I don't believe I'm nearly as powerful as the Admiral, but such a thing may be within my limits. But I do know that faith is always possible, for anyone, anything.

[He pauses.]

Yes, I'd like to hear the story.

From:

nolongerhollow

I am slowly beginning to believe that.

The man was a friar who followed the mode of St. Francis, up to and including practicing his sermons on cats. His former occupation was the same as his flock: pirate. Once, he had been a terrible man, as terrible as my mortal days. But he had the courage to go against all of that, even knowing what everyone would think, and that he would likely die penniless and possibly done in by the violence he had renounced. He still preached and did his work with dedication and competence, in spite of the risks and occasional doubts about whether he was morally clean enough to preach.

From:

trenchcoatedly

[He listens to the story quietly, head tilted forward with intent.]

This man... he would be welcomed with open arms to the gates of Heaven, for his change of heart, for his decision to follow the Lord's word despite the risks and his own insecurities. He would be granted salvation.

From:

nolongerhollow

I'm starting to realize that being a man of peace and spirituality in such an environment truly requires a different sort of courage. [He's starting to get reddened eyes and a little cough from talking of such things, but...each time he does he comes away feeling he's benefited more than he's paid.]

I'll need to find a dose of that courage myself before we go through with anything. But it is becoming easier.

From:

trenchcoatedly

I will see if there's any available material on this matter in the library, and test my strength in the CES. That being said, I won't know exactly what I'm capable of doing with your soul until I look at it, and that process can be... excruciating.

From:

nolongerhollow

[He gives this some quiet thought, and then speaks slowly, but firmly.]

I will not hold any pain against you. It only makes sense that there be a price and a challenge.

I would be clean even if I must be burned clean.