Title: Like a Diamond
Challenge Response: Faith
Word Count: 210
Rating: K+
A/N: So I'm a dork. This incident is mentioned in Silk Gloves (chapter 1), and when the challenge came up, this got written. This is the cut version, original was 320 words, AKA, way too long to be a drabble.
She stood
with the rest of the congregation, shuffling down the aisle towards
the communion. The tentative grip on her powers made it impossible
to drink the wine or eat the bread that held such a grim
representation, but to make them happy, she followed other's lead,
and lightly brushed the bible.
Her powers dragged
her under instantaneously. The good book held many things; life,
love, trust. But most of all, it held faith. Perfect when untouched,
but terrible when corrupted. Destroyed easily when hit in just the
right spot, hard and unrelenting in others; like a diamond. Imposing,
beautiful, terrible, lovely. She had always known that people's faith
was nothing to be trifled with, but this blew her away. It was a
force unto itself; and in that moment, she realized that even if
there wasn't a God in heaven - there was a God on earth. The force of
humanity's belief had brought God to existence, and would keep him
there until all hope was lost.
Her eyes opened to several people calling her name. There were tears on her face that she didn't remember shedding.
Well, thought Miho Karasuma, sitting in the infirmary a little later, that was one way to get out of mass.
She smiled.