As Robert watched the men being taken away after some quick debriefing, Lucas smirked, sheathing her sword jauntily.
"So. When will you poke a hole in that vest for the tail?"
Marina this time ACTUALLY rolled her eyes. Why did a sarcastic, deadpan snarker geek with a thing for grandstanding get turned into an angel, of vengeance no less?
Robert blinked. "Er... I... have no idea? Listen, I must thank you... Even though... I was partly responsible for that."
"Partly responsible? Did you pay them to do it as part of the nicest fivesome bondage roleplay ever or...?" - Lucas said.
Marina just watched the exchange. She was pretty sure, by what she could glean from the conversation, that Lucas was being his usual, insufferably ironic self, but she wasn't about to chime in.
Robert sighed. "My sermons were... inflammatory... back when I was a human priest. One of the men that attacked me is a parishioner of mine."
"So?" - said Lucas - "I'm not a Catholic or a Christian - I'm just not into monotheism, though I have nothing against its followers or priests." - Lucas added for fear of putting her foot in her mouth - "But I'm pretty sure you folks have the concept of free will. You want to feel guilty about preaching nasty tripe before, be my guest. I won't lie to you, it's this kind of thing that made me an Agnostic. You can even believe that your form or their actions are punishment. I'd disagree with it, mind you, but that's neither a here nor a there. But those morons still have free will, and I'm pretty sure that the Catholic Church isn't planning to devise a way to take THAT away. Regardless, you learned, no? You don't preach inflammatory tripe anymore, and your god is about forgiveness. So, you are forgiven, my, er, fellow person, go and sin no more. And poke a hole in that vest for the tail, that has got to be REALLY uncomfortable."
Robert blushed at the whole talk, and felt sad upon hearing a few parts of it, to know that priests like she'd been had driven people away. She sighed, thinking of it for a moment, and turned to Lucas. "Is there anything I can do for you in return?"
"Well, I'd like a few bottles of Dr Pepper. Best soda ever, and I never found it in Brazil. Just my luck. And, though you likely don't do it nowadays, could you not preach against homosexuality anymore? While I don't really care what you guys preach, I was male, I'm now a lesbian, so... Oh, right, and the hole. Don't forget the hole."
Robert first blinked and then blushed and then blinked again. Her savior was turning out to be an odd one.
