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[b]Amari Residence[/b]

"Well, yes," Maria replied to MiMi, "That was my intention."

She then produced a medallion from her pocket.

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If one were familiar with the hit classic horror movie, The Exorcist, they would recognise the medal to be somewhat similar to the one Maria was holding in her hand.

"The Baptismal rite is a sacramental miracle meant to ward off spiritual entities. As you may know, however, it was meant more for general use, so to speak. Against powerful spiritual entities on the level of a Ghost Liner, it would be ineffectual. This, however, is the Benedictine Medal, which has a long tradition of being used in the rites of exorcism against demons. Thus, with this, even though I am not an exorcist myself, I should be able to elicit a reaction from the host if he truly is a daemoniac."

She then stopped, before adding, somewhat hesitantly, "Of course, if it DOES elicit some reaction, then Evan would need to be killed in that instant. Exorcists are few in number, especially in the States, so we cannot wait for the luxury of calling one."

"Well, yes, at that point, if you are deploying anti-demon magecraft—" Leonardo started saying, before being interrupted by Maria's cough, "Ehem. I believe you mean sacraments."

Rolling his eyes, Leonardo continued, "...anti-demon sacrament, that's like poking the hornet's nest. Don't you have a less 'invasive' procedure?"

"We do," Maria said with a sigh, "Unfortunately, like exorcists, they are very rare. There are Charismatics—"

"Meaning psychics," Leonardo clarified.

"—that are able to detect demons. But as I said, they are quite rare. I believe there is only one in the entire state of Oregon," Maria continued, seemingly ignoring Leonardo's interruption."

"And considering that if this is a true demonic possession of an entity capable of mind reading, we don't have the luxury of calling for one, because the moment we decide to do so, the demon might know of it and act?" Leonardo asked.

Maria nodded, "Quite. IF this is a case of true demonic possession with the ability of mind reading, there is only a small window of opportunity from when we decide to do something that would expose the demon before it acts."

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[b]Amari Residence, Evan's bedroom[/b]

Evan simply looked blankly at Selene's explanation, '...I don't really get it, but..." turning to Richard, he said, "...Basically, it's something like the X-Men? Like Jean Grey?"

Evan sighed, "...Maybe that'd be better, I don't know," he then added to Richard, "[i]He[/i] said you're not being honest, by the way. But yeah, I dunno if there are passages on the bible about demon possesed people going to heaven, but Jesus and the Apostles did exorcise tons of demons, and the demon-possessed were never depicted to be the one at fault most of the time. Maybe if Heaven exists, if the Sister killed me, I'll go to Heaven. That's...not too bad."

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