...Do you... understand, Cain? That no one has any idea about-- any of this... that it's been nine hundred years, and the world... it isn't the place we knew as children.
[half dead.]
What you saw... [he points, vaguely, beyond the bedroom.] After the holiday. That's all that's left of most of the earth... and after the war, everything... just... stopped. Cities that weren't destroyed turned to chaos... most smaller towns still don't so much as possess the luxury of electricity after all this time...
How do I explain...? How do I tell them what we are, when the world that made us is centuries gone...? How do I tell someone like her I'm... that I've--
[g... nn; he hangs his head a bit, breath hitched quietly as he pressed a hand to his side. his insides get all twisted up thinking about this... the remembered fear in Esther's face as she discovered that the priest was truly a monster. even if her forgiveness and acceptance had come with time... he will never be able to forget what he is and can so easily become in the eyes of the children he vowed to protect.
no subject
[half dead.]
What you saw... [he points, vaguely, beyond the bedroom.] After the holiday. That's all that's left of most of the earth... and after the war, everything... just... stopped. Cities that weren't destroyed turned to chaos... most smaller towns still don't so much as possess the luxury of electricity after all this time...
How do I explain...? How do I tell them what we are, when the world that made us is centuries gone...? How do I tell someone like her I'm... that I've--
[g... nn; he hangs his head a bit, breath hitched quietly as he pressed a hand to his side. his insides get all twisted up thinking about this... the remembered fear in Esther's face as she discovered that the priest was truly a monster. even if her forgiveness and acceptance had come with time... he will never be able to forget what he is and can so easily become in the eyes of the children he vowed to protect.
he's just a selfish coward...]