Character: Mark Valerian

- But she saved your life! Or have you forgotten how Kai almost killed you? And then you send her to her death?
- She's a slave, mark. And when she protected me, she only did what I had to do. I have to thank her for that? Yes her life and not worth a penny ruptured.
Mark felt, as it grows so desperate that he could barely breathe.
Her life is everything to me! I love her! he shouted.

... Mark misunderstood her outburst.
- If we'll be making love right now, I never will not regret it, ' he said, squeezing the Hadassah to embrace, but will regret it you. Purity before marriage. Is not that reads one of the laws of your God? Religion never interested. Not interested in now. But it is important for you, and for this I'm willing to wait. For me the important thing is that I love you. And I don't want in our relationship was something that we regretted.

- Can I go, my Lord? - she said softly, as a maid.
- Yes, - quietly he said, watching her eyes. When she opened the door, he called out to her.
- Hadassah, ' said mark, feeling like love is tearing him up inside. The only way to master it, in his view, was to undermine this obstinate in her faith. But does not shake while he and her? And that this God ever done for you?
Pretty girl with long stood in the doorway with my back to him and was silent.
- All, - finally she said quietly and left quietly closing the door behind him.

- God spoke to Elijah in a low whisper, mark. It was a calm and quiet voice. It was a still small voice...
Mark suddenly felt a strange trembling inside. As if trying to get rid of him, he smiled wryly.
- Wind?
"Yes," she said quietly.

- Unless your God is against love?
- God is love - quietly said Hadassah.

- I have to go, my Lord. Please...
- Where to go?
- To himself.
- I'll go with you.
She looked at him, clutching his hand to his tunic.
- I have no choice?
Mark knew what she would say if he would give her the choice. Speaking against all human instincts, her cursed God requires from his followers purity.
- What if I say no?
- I beg you not to rape me.
- Rape you? is the word and slashed him. - You belong to my family. Is it violence if something that belongs to me, I take what I want? And, in my opinion, I give you respect, even when...
Then he stopped listening to himself. For the first time, mark felt an unspeakable sense of shame. He stared at her, because for a moment saw himself as she must see him, and shuddered. He called her something. Something! Had he just thought about her? How about things that can enjoy, not caring about her feelings?

- I'm a slave.
- Can I not be reminded. I know who you are and what you are.
She closed her eyes. No, he doesn't know. In fact, he absolutely did not know about it. Anything very important.

... She recovered quickly and obediently lowered his head.
- Forgive me, my Lord.
His palm was burning from the slap, but it was nothing compared to how burned his conscience.

- ... All the gods are acting on their whims. What's different from the rest?
God is not like those idols which the people themselves create, and which give its qualities. God doesn't think and act like people.