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The Church of the Good Shepherd (attn: Sam, Heather, Tlora) - mnemosyne - 10-24-2014
[Sam: after meeting Jennifer Sera is bringing her to see Pan. This will have to happen before Howl's finale scene because I don't know what will happen with Sera. Anyway, I don't mean to bother you with this but this stuff is really outside of her area and would go to Pan about it for sure.]
Thursday morning - after the early morning mass, after the drop-off rush at the day care center, but certainly well before noon vespers - Serafíne comes sauntering in to the Church of the Good Shepherd, escorting both Elijah - in his vest and suspenders, with his pocket watch - and Jennifer, dressed all in white.
She stops at Rosa's desk, of course, and might even rest her ass on it and she gives Rosa this quicksilver smile that is nevertheless framed by a degree of tension she does not realize has entered her body. Has been there for hours, or perhaps days.
"The old man in?" Sera asks Rosa, and she knows she is because she can feel him in his office, but she lets Rosa check in with Pan anyway before sending them back.
Well, sending Sera back, because she tells Jennifer and Elijah that they should Wait here a moment and then she slips back on her own for a private word with the priest.
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Alone, Sera confesses her concerns about Jennifer to him. What she read in the girl's mind, and what the girl admitted to her. Tells him that Jennifer understands magic - quintessence and avatars and nodes - but does not know what the traditions are. She is awake - he can feel her out there, her purifying resonance - and seemed to connect the word chorus with traditions, but she learned everything she knows from her mother and father, who seem to have been at the center of a cult.
She never knew her father's name. He's on the lam, now, wanted by the FBI.
Her mother is in prison.
Her 'community' is dispersed, but she still believes that she will be sacrificed at age 21 to the goddess within.
Which makes Sera say What the fuck about seven hundred times. At the least, Sera wants to know if the girl is - well - corrupted, despite the seed of her purifying essence.
At best, well: what the fuck, Pan. What the fuck what the fuck?