Pagan worship? What was he talking about? Light and the Mother isn't pagan, it's just the different name for God and goodness. "Shand, the Mother isn't a pagan worship. She is God, and God is the Mother. Light is just another name for goodness." Just then his hand moved too quickly for me to dodge it. He slapped me hard and then looked somewhat sorry that he did it. "Angelina, why do you make me be angry at you? The priest will kill you if they hear this talk of Mother. You are disrespecting God, and you should know better. You didn't grow up in some poor village. Even then the poor villagers no better." "I thought you loved me Shand, but now I think that I was wrong. You don't love me, you never had. If you did, then you would believe in me and the Mother." I slapped him back, and he looked shock. His fists clenched and he took a step back from me. "I can back to you, and this is how I'm treated. Goodbye Angelina." He started to walk away, but I grabbed his hand. He turned around, and shook my hand off. I reached and grabbed both this time. "Shand please listen to me. The blessed Paulisnte told the people about love. He said 'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.' He also said that 'If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.' I need your love Shand, or I too am nothing. I need the people's help to fight Darkness. But if you want me to put it in the Church's words, I am a prophet from God, who needs to build a human army to destroy Satan's army. Is that clear enough to you? Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Please understand me. I have faith that you will believe, I have hope that you will believe, and I want your love in being that you understand."
He was staying, and when we came back to the fire, everyone was happy to see Shand and I together again, smiling and laughing.