[ He watches D get settled, and sighs as he sets down his own cross, running his tongue over the back of his teeth as he brings the lines from the crevices of his memory. He wonders if this counts as a service of some kind. Damn... it's for free... but they are in the proper establishment. ]
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
[ Easy enough. The first lines are always easy to remember. But he recalls the next few lines, and he tastes bleeding irony somewhere in the words. He heard the first two a lot around low and cracked dinner tables, kind smiles and warm gratitude. The next tastes like immaculate steel, sterile and cold. ]
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
[ Easy enough. The first lines are always easy to remember. But he recalls the next few lines, and he tastes bleeding irony somewhere in the words. He heard the first two a lot around low and cracked dinner tables, kind smiles and warm gratitude. The next tastes like immaculate steel, sterile and cold. ]
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
[ ... ]
Amen.
And that's how one of them goes.