[Sodium_noir] Gods of Fire, Saints of Ireland

[Jennie Teakle]

> Tom Kaurismaki, Christine, Father Bellamy
> Dreamspeaker Mage, Orphan Mage, Celestial Chorus Mage
> At St. Bridgett's, after 1 a.m.


> [Bellamy]
> "Blessed?" the priest asked. "Above and beyond the usual sanctity of a
> Church you mean? Well yes, St Bridget's is somewhat special. A  
> place where
> the energies of the One coalesce and form a bastion against the  
> outside
> world. What most of our calling call a Node."

[Christine]
'Node'.  Grasping onto something - anything - else to think about  
other than Mara, Christine's seizes on this word, pretty sure she  
heard Panic use it referring to the mysterious, intangible presence  
she felt in the Chaste Dragon. Bellamy describes that kind of dynamic  
otherwordly essence as the 'energies of the One'. That doesn't really  
seem to fit the subtle, unseen power that infuses the Dragon, and the  
atmospheres  of the church and the bordello are very different.  
Nonetheless, Christine can sense an odd similarity, a kind of  
delicate background scent or flavor or sound or caress . . .  
Christine is having a hard time equating what she means with any  
physical sensation. It's like a combination of them all and yet  
nothing like any of them! It's a something she can feel with the part  
of her consciousness that needs no flesh to translate the way  
environment affects her . . .

Christine's headache kicks in strongly at this point. Reminding her  
that whatever high falutin new awareness she is wrestling with, her  
flesh is still very much part of the picture. Currently, it's  
overtired and underfed.

She glances at Laufeyjarson and wonders how much he knows about this  
kind of thing. Christine hesitates but, decides that she has already  
established her ignorance and lack of finesse and so has no actual  
cool to lose where the strange young man is concerned.

"Node? Like at the Chaste Dragon? But here it feels different . . . "  
Christine looks at Father Bellamy tentatively, looking for  
confirmation. She realises that she is still holding the gloves that  
are her odd present from Panic tightly and carefully puts them on the  
table, so that both Laufeyjarson and Father Bellamy can see them.   
"Right?" Christine hazards an interrogative look at Laufeyjarson.  
"Have you been to the Dragon?"


Tag Father B & Tom :-)

		
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