I entered the chapel today to find Luci missing, which isn't so terribly unusual. We have all been feeling the strain of recent events involving the plants, and despite Luci and the other orphans slipping out to forage supplies, much of our time was spent behind the relative safety of the church's doors. Now that the "Artifact" is gone--that strange device of unknown origin that was the cause of all our troubles--the city has taken on an air of freedom in contrast to the state of siege we found ourselves in as recently as last night. Luci had promised to help me dust the chapel, but I could hardly blame her for wanting a few hours escape in the city. Besides, Fr. Eamon told me he'd given Luci some credits for her lunch, so I suspected she had gone to Zoe's Cafe to see Guin.
| It was not long before Luci returned to the chapel, as she had promised, but I do not think she expected to find me there, as upon close inspection I found a marijuana joint tucked behind her ear. Ohh, she went to Zoe's Cafe all right, but apparently Guin wasn't working then, and instead Luci was "served" by some strange woman who gave her a can of Coke for free and... and a doobie besides! I wrung the rest out of our little hellion by threatening her with everything from a frog-march to see Fr. Eamon to scrubbing the chapel's stone floor for a week, but she finally admitted that the woman was not one of Zoe's employees, but instead a stranger who took it upon herself to enter the cafe and pass out Coke, joints, and VODKA to anyone who happened by. Thank God in His heaven, Luci refused the vodka. |
The child is going to be the death of me. She begged me not to tell the father--she rather looks up to him, I think, as he's been teaching her how to read and write--but I will be telling Guin. Guin seems to be equal parts mother and sister to the girl, and if Luci won't listen to me, perhaps she will listen to Guin. And someone needs to tell Zoe about the... the miscreant using her cafe as a place to pass out drugs to little girls! In the meantime, Luci is grounded.
(And I think I need a shot of vodka. *sigh*)
- Location:St. Michael's Church
- Mood:
exasperated
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