02-09-2022, 05:46 PM
Oh, thank God.
His relief was almost evident in the lowering of his shoulders, the release of some small measure of tension kept between them. Malachi pulled his hand back, endlessly grateful that he'd at least made the gesture first this time – that he didn't have to be the one refusing it.
Malachi resumed his steps, following quickly after Mister Fa'afili.
"No," he admitted with a slight shake of his head. "Far from it, actually. My previous church was in a much smaller settlement, though."
Not all of them had been, but that one was. As for why he had been transferred so frequently between parishes, that was another matter entirely, and a question he hadn't been asked.
"You're... certain that this is Saint Hilda's?"
His relief was almost evident in the lowering of his shoulders, the release of some small measure of tension kept between them. Malachi pulled his hand back, endlessly grateful that he'd at least made the gesture first this time – that he didn't have to be the one refusing it.
Malachi resumed his steps, following quickly after Mister Fa'afili.
"No," he admitted with a slight shake of his head. "Far from it, actually. My previous church was in a much smaller settlement, though."
Not all of them had been, but that one was. As for why he had been transferred so frequently between parishes, that was another matter entirely, and a question he hadn't been asked.
"You're... certain that this is Saint Hilda's?"
