They looked at Christina, as they would any devout sister, and found only calm. She had the face of somebody who could be wrong but was not afraid to be. She answered Alphonse not with accusation but with a question that mirrored back the ugly truth: "Why does your charity ask for silence?"
Christina chose neither mercy nor silence. She chose to pry at the net. The Passion of Sister Christina -v1.00- By PAON
And in a notebook she kept under her mattress, between pages of prayers, she wrote one rule in a hand that had learned to be both gentle and exact: When mercy is offered, ask who pays the price. They looked at Christina, as they would any