[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/k0T4yUm.png[/img]
[sub][@ERode][/sub][/center]
[indent]

[color=FFD700]"I–wait, what?"[/color] Safia blinked, closed her eyes, and rubbed her temples. This was just a bad dream. [color=FFD700]"You want me to... teach you to summon [i]angels??"[/i][/color]

Otis nodded. There was no trace of duplicity, or any kind of emotion, really, on his face.

[color=FFD700]"Okay, okay. I get it."[/color] Safia was an idiot, but she wasn't stupid. The kid in front of her had a reputation. It was highly likely that he'd be using his summons for... questionable things. She couldn't possibly facilitate something like that! It was heresy! And the state of this room! Safia really couldn't say much, considering the state of her own home, but still! It looked like the lovechild of Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath spawned from the violent hate-sex they clearly had after their famous debate! The sexual tension between the two had been undeniable. Why, when Dawkins had confronted the Logos discussion–she was getting distracted.

Safia reconsidered her knee-jerk reaction. She couldn't deny that she had a vested interest in the mechanics of holy magic. And so the gears in her head began to turn.

The holy magic she used was based on faith. The light magic she used was also based on faith, even though it was technically an elemental spell set. Her professor had written a whole paper on how channeling with the Word could allow holy magic users to cast spells that normally weren't considered "holy." She herself still used prayer to cast elemental magics, even though they weren't tied directly to Him. Safia didn't really know how (well, she knew [i]how[/i], but she'd never practiced it) to cast magic [i]without[/i] prayer. And the faithless couldn't cast magic through prayer–that was a given.

So, if she taught Otis her particular brand of summoning, if he did anything untoward, surely the cast wouldn't go through... right...? Safia herself had done some... questionable things in the eyes of the lord, but she could still drink holy water and walk on blessed earth and cast spells through prayer. So maybe toeing the line a [i]little[/i] was okay...?

It wasn't [i]really[/i] her responsibility if Otis got himself excommunicated. Safia could just claim that she'd done her best to show him the light, and all would be fine. For her, at least.

She looked at him again. 

[color=FFD700]"[i]Psalm 92:12, "The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon."[/i] I'll teach you how to summon, but you better not do anything stupid. Only He knows what'll happen if you try and mix magics of different faith systems or mess with divinity too much."[/color]

[/indent]