[@SleepingSilence], nitpicking is not going to help the growth of an amateur writer too, too much. These are entries for a RPGC, not the New York Times Best Selling List.  Small grammar errors are definitely a nuisance to read, especially when in abundance, but nipping an entry in the bud due to something so teeny-tiny is perverting the art of literature. [i]Stop aborting potentially good writers, Oniisama!
[/i] ( `●︿● )💧[sup]~[i] Ya-y-yameru![/i][/sup]
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[quote][color=gray]But somebody that's precise would have came up with one word that fits the bill, it is a first person perspective and they're out there. The rule of three is because people like and very commonly use three descriptors for something because it just sounds nice.[/color][/quote]

[indent]You must have a different narrator in mind. The man who I chose to be the narrator has a different set of characteristics and attributes than the ones you are trying to impose on him, and to make him act any differently would be fundamentally incorrect to the personality of which I crafted for him. Despite your current thought of him, he is someone who does make use with the letter of the Christian law when making discernments or argumentations (let's go more Catholic for the sake of inspiration and use Saint Thomas Aquinas). He could have had two or three or four reasons, regardless of ruling. However, as the author, Briza gets to say the reasons, not someone who managed to have no hand in writing the story but for some unbeknownst reason is trying to convince her that he... I am not sure at this point, but if someone - anyone wants to take the story to the Graduate Level and write a dissertation trying to prove Briza's own will wrong, have-at-it, I'spose. 

Briza calls dibs on reading it, pretty please with sugar on top.[/indent]

[quote][color=gray]Though just as a thought experiment, if we were to assume stereotypes, others may look upon priests favorably. But would they look favorably upon themselves?[/color][/quote]

[indent]A really good answer to your question can be found in the [i]Life Story of Saint Mary of Egypt,[/i] which includes her relationship with Father Zosimas. Their relationship reads something like the Japanese who, to show humility, continue to bow lower and lower to each other upon greetings. [/indent]

[quote][color=gray]But so the discussion doesn't end there. If you'll humor my curiosity, suppose if you knew that the story was 4,000 words and not characters? What would you have added to the story? (Or did you believe it was perfect as is?)[/color][/quote]

[indent]Nothing is perfect, except... The Triune Godhead. [i]Axios![/i] 

I like the story being short, but I did fight myself to keep it the length that it is. I kept it at its current length because his encounter with the woman was brief, and making the story brief flowed with the general idea of a small thing being able to blossom into something greater, such as the Butterfly Effect. My very original thought was to add the dinner portion with reactions from bystanders, dialogue of further introductions and familiarizes between the three, and an ending with the story being a recollection of the event jotted in the narrator's private diary with the keynotes being something about how he helped a woman and her son out of the pigpen. In short, I would add more dry-pompous stuff but decided against it upon principle, which I already mentioned to you in the beginning of the post. [/indent]