#The crest of the beast being fodlan's mark of cain :)

[cursedbluebird]

"Um..." Marianne knotted her hands into her skirt nervously. It should be a simple question right?

She was a religious person right? She spent so much of her free time in the cathedral, praying. But the things she prayed for couldn't exactly be considered good could it? She prayed for the goddess to take her, that she wouldn't have to wake up tomorrow, that everyone would forget about her. That didn't exactly feel holy to her...

"I... I suppose so..." She swallowed the lump in her throat.

Under her pillow was a worn prayer book. The cover had been restitched together so many times, clumsily by her, she had lost count. The tea stained pages had to be restitched to their binding nearly as many times. The ink was faded and smudged from tears and her fingers tracing the words over and over and over. The corners were dog eared, some of the pages torn, there were tiny slips of colorful paper marking where to quickly turn to for certain passages. The leather cover was still soft, despite the way her stitches pulled and puckered the fabric. She should get a new one... but it felt wrong to just throw the prayer book out...

"Yes..." She nodded, her hands relaxing. She was a child of the goddess. She bared the sins of her ancestor as a curse, but it was his curse she carried.

A curse she thought she had broken when she drew Blutgang from the fallen human skeleton of the wandering beast, and yet it still seemed to linger in her mind.

"Um... did you have q...questions? I... I'm not... Um... Mercedes or.... or one of the bishops might be more helpful..."

a believers meeting | Sakura & Marianne

from here w/ @cursedbluebird​

It’s been a while since Sakura wanted to befriend that mysterious blue-haired student that frequently strolled around the cathedral: she was very thin, quiet and stunningly cute. She had a strange aura too, a somewhat idyllic yet repellent aura that made the unknown girl a very enigma to Sakura. Yet, the blue-haired lass has always been very elusive in every occasion and every time Sakura tried to approach her, she found a way of escaping without being noticed.

But this time was different.

As she caught her in at act of praying, she immediately walked towards her direction, quickly reaching her before she could even notice her arrival.

“I’m so glad we can finally introduce each other!” she chirped with emotion, almost incredulous of the happening and as she heard her voice probably for the very first time, she couldn’t help but happily smile at her introduction. “Hope I didn’t make a bad impression.. Can we start over? I’m Sakura”

As soon as she shy girl replied, enthusiasm exploded in Sakura’s heart, made her feel less nervous for the possible bad impression. “My very pleasure to meet you, lady Marianne!” she clasped her hands to together, finally able to speak a little with such devoted student and hoping not to scare away the interlocutor, the petite priestess proceeded with her speech.

“I’ve seen you quite often here at the cathedral. Are you a religious person?”