sanc·ti·ty
[sángktətee](plural sanc·ti·ties)
n
1. sacredness: the condition of being considered sacred or holy, and therefore entitled to respect and reverence.
2. holy thing: something considered holy or sacred (formal)
[14th century. Via French Latin sanctitas sanctus "holy"]
For St. Katan.
They pray. When there is no other recourse they pray; knees bent in supplication, hands clasped around pretty little chained idols, lips moving over long memorized lines of demands. This one wants love, another: money, and they all want glory, in one form or another. False acolytes, dropping poison psalms and weaving vile hymns.
Rociel prays, day and night, knees bent in submission, hands wrapped in pretty chains, grinning lips stretched wide to worship his God. He prays for love, for a string of followers to wrap their adoration around him like one of the strings of pearls that grace his beautiful neck, for glory in the eyes of God.
Katan seldom prays. In fact it seems that he only ever prays when it concerns his Lord (and is it not blasphemous that in Katan's eyes there is only one Lord, one beautiful, broken Lord?). Katan's prayers are always desperate, broken words, swallowed whole around tainted flesh. He lays bare before his Lord, legs spread upon the alter of Rociel's bed, hands reverently caressing divine flesh, lips bruised from daily worship of his Lord, his God.
They pray. When there is no other recourse they pray, bodies twisted in supplication, hands chained to pretty idols, mouths running over long known lines and reverent demands. When there is no other recourse they pray.
