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Come on, baby, breathe, breathe - look, Mama's got milk for you finally, don't you want to try it - BREATHE -
Fabulous Rebecca in Alpha and Omega
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The woman pours the popcorn into a paper bowl for Rebecca and de-fridges some milk to microwave in a mug. "I can hold her while you eat, if that's easier."
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"Alright." Beep, beep, packet, stir, hot hot chocolate. The woman puts in another mug for herself.
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It's pretty amazingly not that!
"I'm Mother Dedemos," the woman introduces herself. "What do you two go by, if anything?"
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"Most people here do. At least one person from another world didn't; he'd come from a place where knowing someone's name gave you incredible power over them and there was apparently a rather aggressive misunderstanding."
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"I'm glad to hear it! Lovely names." Beep beep again the second hot chocolate's done. Mother Dedemos takes a long sip.
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"Good." And then they can go to the choir closet (Mother Dedemos carrying their food and drinks) and Rebecca can pick out a spare jewel-toned robe. "If you'd like to change in the nursery there's a crib to set Catherine down in."
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"Thank you." She will go ahead and change in the nursery. Is there anything for Catherine to wear? She's still soaking wet.
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There are several baby-sized fabric things in the room's shelfy wardrobe. They aren't particularly familiar in their construction but neither are they terribly difficult to figure out how to improve over wet clothes with. - Oh, and there are some little blankets there in the back.
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Mother Dedemos has collected a plastic bucket and takes the wet clothes to her office to drip into it. "Could you use any other help? There are a few things that are normally done before the service left to do but they aren't as important as making sure you're alright."
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"Well, I don't have anywhere to... go... but I can figure that out after the service... um, is this a Catholic church?"
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". . . Maybe you should just look at our creed." Mother Dedemos hits a key to wake up her office computer. The screen lights up to display a digital version of the morning's program.
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The Separated Reconcilist Creed, 2011 edition:
We believe in the good will of God the Mother,
the divinity of the three Christs,
and the dignity of all thinking beings.
We follow the example of Father Mirkes:
he who says that to be well is the foundation of the world's health.
We follow the example of Sibling Aurles:
xe who says that good systems give rise to good people.
We follow the example of Daughter Sernes:
she who says that decoration, ambition, and delight are holy.
We intend to improve the world through our personal actions,
our collective strength,
and the striving of our minds.
We tithe our blood, our time, and our resources to this end,
knowing we are also of this world.
We pray for temperance but not moderation,
patience but not apathy,
and the swift advent of flourishing without suffering.
Amen.
