lights out

[sicharia]

Characters: Anyone not running supplies or helping with the Jason situation!
Setting: The infirmary (and anywhere else, potentially)
Format: Any
Summary: For Part 3 of the Into The Abyss event. The lights are out and Jason is coming, and not everyone can play the hero...
Warnings: Standard event warnings; label your own threads

[Well, you've gotta pass the time somehow.]

Comments

[monstrueux]

Are you?

[Gilles peers at her. He has very little experience with Muslims, and he has a very poor idea of what they might be like. There is in him, still, that perverse interest in all the things the Church condemned. That someone should be a heathen--or godless, like Ryuunosuke--doesn't bother him as much as it might. Especially considering what he is. And where he is.]

A true infidel? And do you know the secret arts? I did once try to find a magician among your number! But I found an Italian instead...

[glassceiling]

I am no infidel!

[For just a second, anger smolders in her eyes.]

Like the People of the Book, we are people of God (Glorified and Exalted be He). The reason you would not find a magician among our number is that the magic arts are forbidden to us!

[Her anger dies down, as suddenly as it came. She wraps her bed sheet a little tighter around herself.]

There are...strange sciences we use. Curses as well. But only in service of God (Glorified and Exalted be He).

[monstrueux]

Ah, but all know that there are great magicians among the Saracens! I did find such magicians, but I did not prefer them.

[The ever-sensitive Gilles didn't mean the word "infidel" as an insult, somehow.]

Yes yes, that is what magic is, is it not?

[Gilles is not getting the difference here.]

[glassceiling]

No. It is no heretic's magic. It is only to be devoted to the service of God (Glorified and Exalted be He) and nothing else. Perhaps that is why you would not appreciate our sciences.