Well, there you have it... I used to work in that field. I used to think so much about money and finances and investments that it was all I talked about to anyone.
On the positive, I made quite a bit of money... enough to retire comfortably... before I became a priest.
Vincent can say with confidence he was lucky to not have been born special. Their households were worse than his. Not that spared him the psychological, emotional, or physical abuse but it could have been much worse. It could have been like the children at Wish House. They simply disappeared without anyone caring. No one would look for them and if numbers were off from what they were before, no one said anything.
There was an article written about the treatment of some of the children, but the reporter soon disappeared. Vincent believes the Order had something to do with it, and can only imagine the torturous existence that man lived before his end.
But for him, what was it like?
He keeps it to himself -- not because he feels ashamed or wants to protect his parents' good name, but because he doesn't want to be pitied. He doesn't want to be sympathized with; he doesn't want someone to look down on him because he was treated poorly when he was young.
What right do they have to do that to him? What right do they have to feel sorry for him?! What right do any of them have to treat him like his life was a pitiable existence?! ]
It's a religious organization not openly accepted or recognized by the government of my world. Cult is unfortunately the word to use but if you ask me, it is the one true religion of my world.
My god exists and I have witnessed Her glory. But trying to explain that to anyone from any other religious group and they call me insane...
So there is no point in covering up what outsiders believe. That's what I mean.
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