Mika glances briefly at the forest, and the snow, and all the things that used to comprise first a church, and then that grim bedroom. )
... He chose the wrong witch, then.
( Of all women to persecute, he chose the one caring for the twin he hadn't known he'd had, whom he'd perhaps never meet if not for this, and died a death he must have surely thought was below his station. )
I suppose God turned away from him, then. Something deserved.
( But so did He turn from Ithaqua's mother, and that was perhaps unfair. Still, this is expected, to Mika: from what little he knows of God, He is quick to dole punishment but reticent with mercy. )
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Mika glances briefly at the forest, and the snow, and all the things that used to comprise first a church, and then that grim bedroom. )
... He chose the wrong witch, then.
( Of all women to persecute, he chose the one caring for the twin he hadn't known he'd had, whom he'd perhaps never meet if not for this, and died a death he must have surely thought was below his station. )
I suppose God turned away from him, then. Something deserved.
( But so did He turn from Ithaqua's mother, and that was perhaps unfair. Still, this is expected, to Mika: from what little he knows of God, He is quick to dole punishment but reticent with mercy. )