Maggie pauses in her work and leans back to peer at John through the small gap between the dividers. Only one of her eyes is visible to him, squinting suspiciously.
"I thought you were Catholic?"
Her own religious beliefs are vague and without doctrine. She believes in spirits, energies, and other worlds. She is superstitious and certain that ill-will can translate to physical or mental illness. When she was sick with Black Fever the first time, she felt that she went somewhere else and came back. Since then, she has become more sensitive to messages and omens. She believes dreams are a window into another plane of understanding or existence. But she doesn't pretend to know what any of that really means and she is not a witch.
"Isn't that blasphemous thing to say? If you wanted, you could kill me with your bare hands. Does that make you god?"
Her tone is light and conversational, despite the heavy topic. She isn't accusing John of anything. But it feels important to her that he knows she is aware of the inherent power imbalance between them and comfortable enough with it that she can mention it offhand while alone with him behind closed doors.
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"I thought you were Catholic?"
Her own religious beliefs are vague and without doctrine. She believes in spirits, energies, and other worlds. She is superstitious and certain that ill-will can translate to physical or mental illness. When she was sick with Black Fever the first time, she felt that she went somewhere else and came back. Since then, she has become more sensitive to messages and omens. She believes dreams are a window into another plane of understanding or existence. But she doesn't pretend to know what any of that really means and she is not a witch.
"Isn't that blasphemous thing to say? If you wanted, you could kill me with your bare hands. Does that make you god?"
Her tone is light and conversational, despite the heavy topic. She isn't accusing John of anything. But it feels important to her that he knows she is aware of the inherent power imbalance between them and comfortable enough with it that she can mention it offhand while alone with him behind closed doors.