02-15-2022, 01:28 AM
Small treasures... right. Malachi raised a brow at the beggar's smile, and said nothing. He had already found a child taking candles from the altar, and now he had this guy to worry about too?
Worry about, he thought, as if he hadn't let the child take the candles anyway. If someone needed something more than the church did, he'd let them have it.
"If your darkest secret is that you loved someone," Malachi started, and his voice was strangely gentle, for how harshly he'd bent it before.
"Then I don't think you give yourself the patience you deserve. I asked because I don't care if there are things for me to worry about, Mister Tully. I just like to know the truth."
Worry about, he thought, as if he hadn't let the child take the candles anyway. If someone needed something more than the church did, he'd let them have it.
"If your darkest secret is that you loved someone," Malachi started, and his voice was strangely gentle, for how harshly he'd bent it before.
"Then I don't think you give yourself the patience you deserve. I asked because I don't care if there are things for me to worry about, Mister Tully. I just like to know the truth."