[Emmanuel is out for a walk. To clear his head, mostly--too many strange things have been happening lately, and he's done enough praying already. It doesn't seem to help. The vision he'd had--he'd thought it was a sign, finally, that his determination to keep his faith even when it wavered had finally been rewarded.
[then he'd found the network. And read it all, seen the horrifying footage of that boy being shot. He remembered reading the obituary in the paper, a house fire. There was no way that video could have been faked.]
[He's not even sure if this is supposed to be a test. It's sick, and twisted--and he'd left behind his father's obsession with Calvinistic theology as quickly as he could, for the same reasons.]
[so he doesn't notice the bird at first. There are plenty around, though they tend to be begging for food and being generally obnoxious. He doesn't mind them, though--sometimes he brings bread and lends it to the children playing in the park so they can feed the birds, too.]
[this one is a little different. It seems like it's playing with the newspaper...more catlike behaviour than birdlike. Nothing he can't rationalize yet, though he does stop to watch curiously.]
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[then he'd found the network. And read it all, seen the horrifying footage of that boy being shot. He remembered reading the obituary in the paper, a house fire. There was no way that video could have been faked.]
[He's not even sure if this is supposed to be a test. It's sick, and twisted--and he'd left behind his father's obsession with Calvinistic theology as quickly as he could, for the same reasons.]
[so he doesn't notice the bird at first. There are plenty around, though they tend to be begging for food and being generally obnoxious. He doesn't mind them, though--sometimes he brings bread and lends it to the children playing in the park so they can feed the birds, too.]
[this one is a little different. It seems like it's playing with the newspaper...more catlike behaviour than birdlike. Nothing he can't rationalize yet, though he does stop to watch curiously.]